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Women who want equal opportunities to work, fair pay, political representation, a higher education and access to health care won’t find it in Italy, global statistics show.
Italy seized more than 24 million tablets of a synthetic opiate that Islamic State militants planned to sell to finance attacks around the world, the head of a southern Italian court said on Friday.
Sicilians thrust the antiestablishment 5 Star Movement onto the national stage in 2012 by giving the largely untested populist party nearly a fifth of all votes in regional elections.
Italy’s central bank knew Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA papered over a loss of almost half a billion dollars two years before prosecutors were alerted to the complex transactions, documents revealed in a Milan court show.
Italy’s Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II final assembly and check out (FACO) facility in Cameri has delivered eight F-35As. Lockheed Martin said four currently reside at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona for international pilot training, while the other half are at an air base on the Adriatic coast. Italy’s FACO recently became one step closer to being able to deliver F-35Bs, the short-take-off-and-vertical-landing (STOVL) variant.
In Sicily, children hunt for treats left by loving relatives no longer around. In northern Italy people leave their homes empty in case the dead want to visit. All over the country, Italians set an empty place at the table for people who no longer sit there.
Half a century ago, Italian designers attempted social revolution through design.
With a wide grin plastered across his 81-year-old face, Silvio Berlusconi, the media mogul and three-time Italian prime minister, raised his hands and took a bow in front of a packed house at Palermo’s neoclassical Politeama theatre on Wednesday night.
Fans of Italian cinema are in for a treat as one of that country’s biggest stars is expected to open a major film festival.
Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is under investigation as part of an investigation into mafia bombings in 1993, a judicial source said on Tuesday, confirming newspaper reports.