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Italy Anonymous hackers arrested

2013-05-17T10:28:00.003+01:00

As part of Operation "Tango down" staff CNAIPIC (National Anti-Crime Computer Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection) of the Postal and Communications Police is performing all over Italy several searches and precautionary measures, some of which have already been carried out against of a criminal organization composed of hackers, while hiding behind the name "Anonymous."

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Beppe Grillo: Berlusconi in jail

2013-05-17T10:25:00.000+01:00

Five Stars Movement’s Beppe Grillo attacks: "Silvio Berlusconi? In jail, but the Democratic Party protects him. Silvio is ready for ineligibility law." And on the parties: "They are finished in Italy within four months."

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Italy International Day Against Homophobia

2013-05-17T10:19:00.004+01:00

"I express my closeness to those who have been victims of intolerable aggression and those who suffer episodes of discrimination that relate to their sexual orientation." These are the words by the Italian President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano in a message for the World Day against Homophobia.

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Italy Homophobia bill signed

2013-05-16T16:00:00.001+01:00

A bill to combat homophobia, thanks to the extension of the Mancino law: one third of MPs has already signed.
In the new government, here is a new attempt for MPs who are fighting because gay citizens have equal rights, to punish those who discriminate on "the basis of sexual identity" of the people.

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Italy L'Aquila earthquake was not unforeseeable

2013-05-16T15:55:00.003+01:00

The 2009 L'Aquila earthquake that led to the collapse, among others buildings, of the student house "was not unpredictable." This was underlined by the magistrate Giuseppe Grieco in today judgment’s reasons.

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Silvio Berlusconi is ineligible

2013-05-16T15:50:00.002+01:00

To reinvigorate the controversy among Democratic Party and Berlusconi’s The People of Freedom today is an interview by the Dem Senate Luigi Zanda, where he supports Silvio’s ineligibility for his Television possessing. PDL immediately arises: "So the government is at risk." The Grillo’s Five Stars Movement said of being immediately ready to "vote for the ineligibility of Berlusconi."

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Beppe Grillo Blog comments against the president: 22 suspects

2013-05-15T15:32:00.001+01:00

Beppe Grillo protests after the recent decision by the the prosecutor of Nocera Inferiore (Salerno),

who authorized to proceed against 22 suspects for "offense against the honor and prestige of the President of the Republic" as authors commented on the blog of the Five Stars Movement’s leader.

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Italian Citizenship Reform is necessary

2013-05-15T15:28:00.001+01:00

The Minister of Integration Cécile Kyenge, replying to a question time in the MPs Chamber, believes that a regulatory change may take place gradually. And, speaking of the three Milanese killed by a Ghanaian, invites the audience not to give credit at equivalence between immigration and crime: "The reform of citizenship," she said, "is needed and may increase Italy."

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Italy phone tapping Berlusconi law reform

2013-05-15T15:23:00.002+01:00

Italy Phone tapping, Silvio Berlusconi’s party The People of Freedom returns to attack.

They settled a law that is similar to the past ones just on the day when a request for authorization to listening telephone among PdL leaders was sent to the MPs Chamber Commission.

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Rubygate Berlusconi's party protest

2013-05-14T16:26:00.004+01:00

"They want to exclude Silvio Berlusconi from politics," The People of freedom's leaders said.

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Nitto Palma, after the request for a sentence of six years for the former prime minister, declared: "The request of the prosecutor leaves doubts."
Process built on prejudice, It destabilizes the country, others said.

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Italy gay MPs will have health care

2013-05-14T16:21:00.003+01:00

The Italian Parliament approved the supplementary health care for Italian homosexual MPs’ partners. The request by the Democratic Party member Ivan Scalfarotto has been approved: “And now,” he said, “same rights must be applied equally out of Parliament too.”

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Italy man burns family: bank sells his house

2013-05-14T16:14:00.000+01:00

Italy, Ragusa: in an attempt to oppose the eviction of his foreclosed home by the bank for not paying the taxes, a man set himself on fire and in the fire that followed his wife, daughter and two police officers were also severely burned.

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Guglielmo Epifani Italian Democratic Party new secretary

2013-05-13T15:52:00.001+01:00

The Italian Democratic Party re-starts from Guglielmo Epifani. The former trade union CGIL

leader is the new secretary elected by the National Assembly with 458 votes, 85% of them. The troubled Pierluigi Bersani’s season was archived, now it's up to Epifani ferrying the party to the Congress of October trying to involve the most of all components that have surfaced in recent weeks.

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Beppe Grillo: I don't get Party money

2013-05-13T15:46:00.000+01:00

“The money funding the parliamentarians,” the Five Stars Movement leader said, “are not operated

by me and are not used to finance my blog. Who says it will be sued.”

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Berlusconi sex trial: Ruby prostitute

2013-05-13T15:41:00.004+01:00

Here are the concluding words by judge Ilda Boccassini on Silvio Berlusconi’s Rubygate trial: “The
Karima El Mahroug (Ruby)
documentary reconstruction evidences that the crimes of extortion and prostitution are reliable and Berlusconi used his position to avoid the disclosure of the crimes. For this reason it is not allowed any general mitigating.”

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No youth employment No Europe future

2013-05-10T14:18:00.002+01:00

"Europe must give answers on youth unemployment, it arrived to totally unsustainable levels and that is why we ask that the next EU Council in June focuses on a special plan on it, with various immediately concrete measures, " Italy Prime Minister Enrico Letta said.

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Italy same-sex marriage law soon

2013-05-10T14:10:00.002+01:00

The new Minister for Equal Opportunities Josefa Idem said: "Soon we’ll make a law on marriages between the same sex persons, even Berlusconi is favorable. We also created a Task Force to study the phenomenon of femicide."

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Beppe Grillo Jus soli: only referendum may change

2013-05-10T14:03:00.001+01:00

Five Stars Movement Beppe Grillo said: "Jus soli? It may change only by referendum. It cannot be
decided in a handful of parliamentarians and politicians in permanent electoral campaign."
Left and Freedom’s leader Nichi Vendola replied: "He denies rights as the fascists".

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Venice Film Festival Bernardo Bertolucci president of the jury

2013-05-09T15:41:00.001+01:00

The Academy Awards winner Bernardo Bertolucci was chosen to preside over the International

Jury for the Competition at the 70th Venice International Film Festival (August 28 to September 7, 2013), which will award the Golden Lion for best film and other official prizes.

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Beppe Grillo: Berlusconi in jail

2013-05-09T15:35:00.003+01:00

After the ruling on appeal that condemns Silvio Berlusconi, here is some of the comment by Five

Stars Movement’s leader Beppe Grillo: “In any democratic country, a figure like Berlusconi would be in jail or banned from any public office. In Italy he is the balance of the Government, President Napolitano’s landmark in his dual seven years, protected by the opposition of Democratic Party, safeguarded by the servants whom he has appointed in Parliament, defended by the lies of television and newspapers.”

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Berlusconi condemned four years: protest against justice

2013-05-09T15:30:00.002+01:00

After the ruling on appeal that condemns Silvio Berlusconi, here is the announcement of the

manifestation: "The People of Freedom will be on the streets in defense of Silvio Berlusconi. The event will take place on May 11 in Brescia, with the participation of the President."

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Beppe Grillo vs Giovanni Floris: journalist or PD employee?

2013-05-08T14:52:00.003+01:00

Five Stars Movement’s leader Beppe Grillo attacks Italy Television Ray journalist Giovanni Floris Ballarò, throwing on his blog a controversial survey among 5 Stars activists: Floris "is a journalist or an employee (of Democratic Party)?" and his Talk Show.
The attack follows a survey showed in the show by Floris which asked if the M5S is or not "a fundamentalist group that does not go beyond the protest."

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Silvio Berlusconi: Bicameral Convention is useless

2013-05-08T14:46:00.003+01:00

Silvio Berlusconi leaves the Convention as useless: "We should change the Constitution." First he has been pushing up to the birth of the Convention, having promoted himself to its guidance, then he backtracks and calls it a waste of time: "Just kidding, it was a joke," he said.

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Italy ship slams into Genova Port Tower slam photos video

2013-05-08T14:40:00.001+01:00

Italy, Genoa - A ship slams into the port, hitting the pilots control tower. Seven people are dead, while

police are still looking for three missing. The accident occurred shortly after yesterday 11 pm. There are four wounded and the authorities are seeking the lost at sea and under the rubble. The hypothesis of the engine block seems the most likely. Here are some pictures and video of the incident:

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Italian Minister of the Interior: high attention to public order

2013-05-07T16:16:00.000+01:00

After the wounding of two policemen in front of Palazzo Chigi by Louis Preiti on the day of the oath of the executive Letta public order remains vigilant. This is the line confirmed by the national committee for public order and public safety convened by the Interior Minister Angelino Alfano.

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