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Si svolgerà a New York, lunedì 30 gennaio una speciale anteprima del film documentario Profughi a Cinecittà di Marco Bertozzi, organizzata dal Primo Levi Center presso la New York University - Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò.
NATO defense ministers reached an accord Friday on a 1.3-billion-euro plan that involves building a base for surveillance drones in Sicily.
Italy risks grinding to a halt on March 1 after the country's three main trade-union confederations called a four-hour transport strike for that day.
Silvio Berlusconi has declared he is “stepping aside” from frontline Italian politics, revealing he has no intention of running again as prime minister.
Fiat SpA, the Italian automaker that controls Chrysler, on Wednesday reported that full-year earnings more than doubled -- beating expectations -- thanks to Chrysler, which posted its first profit since 1997.
The Italian supreme court has caused outrage after ruling that those convicted of gang rape do not have to be sentenced to jail.
Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle welcomed the ruling, saying it provided legal clarity while in no way diminishing German responsibility for the crimes of the Second World War.
Italy's technocrat government has suffered its first major defeat in parliament in a vote that revealed the strains and discontent in the political alliance sustaining Prime Minister Mario Monti as he combats a major economic crisis.
Thick snowflakes fell on Rome on Friday, forcing the closure of the Colosseum over fears tourists would slip on the icy ruins, and leaving buses struggling to climb the city's slushy hills. Other parts of the country experienced frigid temperatures unseen in years.
Germany can’t be prosecuted by private citizens seeking war crimes damages, the International Court of Justice said, rejecting an Italian ruling awarding compensation to relatives of World War II atrocity victims. Germany appealed an Italian court decision ordering it to compensate relatives of people killed in a 1944 Nazi attack, saying Italy didn’t respect the principle of legal immunity for states from prosecution by private citizens.