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On the news front today, Silvio Berlusconi and Matteo Salvini of the Northern League spent the weekend papering over recent spats that had raised doubts about their coalition. In a series of interviews, Berlusconi said that even if their “tone and language appeared different,” the coalition agrees on a platform – and that includes keeping the euro. Salvini followed Berlusconi on Rai3, saying “there’s more that unites us than divides us.”
On the morning of 3 February, Otioto was waiting at a bus stop in the town of Macerata. A 28-year-old Italian man, Luca Traini, drove towards her in his Alfa Romeo and shot her.
Italian industrial output was much stronger than expected in December, posting its sharpest monthly increase for almost two years, national statistics bureau ISTAT reported on Friday.
Ten thousand migrants are living in “deplorable” conditions in Italy without shelter, food and clean water, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned in a damning indictment of the country’s border practices.
Emma Bonino had wrapped up the keynote speech at a rally in a Rome convention center to begin her campaign for Parliament in Italy’s national elections on March 4, and the cheery, generic background music had just come on.
When hundreds of hardcore Verona soccer fans chanted “Adolf Hitler is my friend” and sang of their team’s embrace of the swastika, Italian Jewish communities complained, and waited.
The mother of a childhood friend of mine, now in her 90s, still lives in our small hometown, Crema, near Milan. A few months ago, she started to tell us about a young, charming American actor named Tim who would pick her up in the mornings to have coffee in the piazza.
Over the mountains and through the woods is a region stuck in time that feels like nowhere else in Italy.
Under-21s coach Luigi Di Biagio has been put in temporary charge of the Azzurri and has asked Gianluigi Buffon to temporarily stay on.
Italian police have arrested the head of a top amateur cycling team and several associates suspected of giving cyclists performance-enhancing drugs.