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Archaeology in Europe (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
Archaeologists have uncovered what they believe to be the largest Greek necropolis in the city of Himera on the island of Sicily, where the ancient version of babies’ beakers has been found. According to the new agency ANSA, although experts have long known about the burial ground, they have only recently understood its importance because of building work to extend a local railway track. Hundreds...
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(ANSA) - Treviso, November 21 - The Northern league deputy mayor of this northeastern Italian city, who was given the nickname 'The Sheriff' for his hard line on immigration, said on Friday that he was unafraid of a fatwa which was allegedly issued against him.''I defend my culture, my religion and civilization without any fear and so is natural that I will make some enemies,'' Giancarlo Gentilini...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Verona, Italy - A married couple and their three children were discovered dead Friday in Verona, Italy, in what investigators believe to be a family murder, news reports said. The bodies, each displaying gunshot wounds, were found by a cleaning woman when she entered the home of the 33-year-old tax consultant, his lawyer wife, also 33, and their children, aged nine, six and three, the ANSA news...
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(ANSA) - Naples, November 20 - Naples Anti-Mafia police on Friday arrested the son of one of the historic leaders of the Camorra clan denounced in Roberto Saviano's worldwide bestseller Gomorra.Gianluca Bidognetti, 20, was arrested for the attempted murder at the end of May of the sister and niece of a clan woman who had started helping police.Dressed as anti-Mafia police, Bidognetti and others...
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(ANSA) - Vatican City, November 21 - The Vatican on Friday praised the Beatles in a newspaper article that appeared to bury the hatchet on John Lennnon's infamous 'more famous than Jesus' remark.Vatican daily Osservatore Romano said Lennon's comment, which sparked outrage in the mid-1960s, ''today just sounds like a quip from an English working-class lad struggling to cope with unexpected success...
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(ANSA) - Rome, November 21 - Italy's national aviation agency ENAC said on Friday that it was ready to authorize a new Italian national carrier as soon as the company buying Alitalia's flight operations supplies it with the necessary guarantees.Alitalia's government-appointed administrator Augusto Fantozzi said on Thursday that he was accepting an offer for the bankrupt carrier's flight division...
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(ANSA) - Vatican City, November 21 - Spanish tenor Placido Domingo has made an album of songs based on poems written by late Pope John Paul II.The album, 'Infinite Love', will be presented in the Vatican next Friday.It reportedly features 12 songs including Domingo performing duets with US gospel singer Vanessa Williams and with his son Placido Domingo Jr. Published by German record label Deutsche...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Suriani asked to be transferred due to an inability to cope with the city's high altitude, the ANSA news agency reported, citing Bolivia's Embassy to the Holy See. The Bolivian capital is situated at 3,640 metres above sea level. Potentially fatal health problems, such as high altitude pulmonary edema and cerebral edema, have been known to occur at levels above 2,200 metres. Earlier this...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Suriani asked to be transferred due to an inability to cope with the city's high altitude, the ANSA news agency reported, citing Bolivia's Embassy to the Holy See. The Bolivian capital is situated at 3,640 metres above sea level. Potentially fatal health problems, such as high altitude pulmonary edema and cerebral edema, have been known to occur at levels above 2,200 metres. Earlier this...
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(ANSA) - Turin, November 21 - Turin soccer giants Juventus on Thursday night presented its future home, the first stadium to be built and owned by an Italian soccer club.The stadium has been conceived as a US-style stadium packed with family-friendly, business-geared and security elements that will discourage hooligans, the club said.It has also been designed to bring the playing field much...
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(ANSA) - Rome, November 21 - An Italian space radar has detected two glaciers that might one day help find life on Mars, researchers said Thursday.The Italian-made SHARAD (Shallow Radar) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) located the huge glaciers under a layer of space rock along the equator of the Red Planet.The area offers promising terrain for future explorers looking for traces...
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
An Italian judge ruled yesterday that managers at Turin's ThyssenKrupp AG steel works will stand trial on charges of manslaughter and gross negligence, Italian news agency ANSA reported. Six managers of the German steel maker are accused of being responsible for the deaths of seven workers who suffered severe burns when a fire broke out at the plant's thermal treatment department in early December...
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Ansa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
(ANSA) - Rome, November 20 - The Italian rugby team is looking to wind up its autumn tests with a morale-boosting win against the Pacific Islanders.After defeats against Australia and Argentina, coach Nick Mallett has said he wants sharper back play and fewer kicking errors in Saturday's game, which will draw a sell-out crowd to the northern Italian city of Reggio Emilia.The Pacific Islanders...
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Ansa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
(ANSA) - Rome, November 20 - Former Juventus and Italy striker Gianluca Vialli has helped set up a new research agency into a killer nerve disease that appears to hit ex-soccer players more than the general population.Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) has gained headlines in Italy because of a series of high-profile cases, the most recent being ex-Fiorentina and AC Milan player Stefano Borgonovo....
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 20/11/2008
... town of Caserta after a concert, Sunday, November 9 in Castel Volturno.Italian news agency, ANSA, announced that Makeba died in the Pineta Grande clinic, where she was taken after she suffered a heart failure, following her performance at an anti-racism and anti-organised crime concert.She was singing with and in support of Roberto Saviano, an Italian journalist and writer threatened with...
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