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Sunday referendum may see Venice elect to secede from Italy
Voting begins Sunday on a referendum on whether Venice and its surrounding region should secede from the rest of Italy, in an attempt to restore its 1,000-year history as a sovereign republic.
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Coke + Nutella + Mentos + Durex ITALIA world record
Coke-mentos propelled rocket!
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Google slapped with yet another fine over Street View
Google was handed a 1 million euro ($1.4 million) fine yesterday by Italy and has already paid it, according to Reuters. This time, Google received a fine for complaints related to its Street View program— in 2010, people complained that the cars were not easily recognizable as Google Street View cars.
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Man crushed to death by giant crucifix dedicated to Pope
A 21-year old man has died after being crushed by a crucifix erected in honour of Pope John Paul II in northern Italy.
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Italy's False 'Ebola Outbreak' Is Spread by Racists and Conspiracy Nuts
On March 21, Guinea’s government declared an outbreak of the Ebola virus. According to a report from the World Health Organization (WHO) the following day, more than 140 people had already died, with a total of 208 clinical cases of Ebola registered throughout the West African country. Keiji Fukuda, the WHO’s assistant director-general, described the situation as “one of the most challenging Ebola outbreaks that we have ever faced”.
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Fashion designers Dolce & Gabbana sentenced to 18 months prison for tax fraud
AN Italian appeals court on Wednesday upheld a tax fraud conviction for Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, the founders of the world-famous fashion label Dolce & Gabbana, sentencing them to a suspended 18-month jail term. The designers stood accused of failing to pay tax on income of $277 million by creating fictitious companies in Luxembourg in order to dodge heftier corporate tax rates in their home country.
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Italian prisoners to get jail terms cut for every book they read
British jails may have banned books for inmates but in Italy, the more prisoners read the more time have knocked off their sentence. New legislation set to be passed means that for every book a prisoner gets through, three days will be knocked off their sentence - up to a maximum of 48 days in a year. Officials say that is the equivalent of 16 books and they all have to be above 400 pages and approved by prison staff - comic books and picture books are excluded.
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Italian factory makes bad mozzarella, 13 arrests
Police in Italy have shut down a mozzarella factory and arrested 13 people after finding that prized local buffalo milk was being cut with cheaper imported cow milk.
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Italian Girls Fined $3,500 each for Wearing Swimsuits Near Muslims on Italian Beach
The encroachment of Sharia Law continues virtually unchecked or, as in this case, aided by a complicit Italian court...
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Nutella: How the world went nuts for a hazelnut spread
Nutella, the nutty chocolate spread, is turning 50. Last year some 365 million kilos were consumed - roughly the weight of the Empire State Building - in 160 countries around the world. Half a century ago, in a small town in northern Italy, this would have been unimaginable.
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I Survived a Deadly Shipwreck: Costa Concordia Passengers Tell Their Stories
Screaming and crying, a hapless crew, and a dive into the water—as the prosecution wraps up its case against the Costa Concordia’s captain, The Daily Beast talks exclusively to two passengers who wish they could tell the court what really happened.
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Lamborghini dispatches Huracán Polizia
The Italian State Police has a new crime-fighting weapon.
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Venice Mayor Orsoni held in Italy corruption inquiry
The mayor of Venice is among 35 people arrested in Italy over alleged corruption in connection with new flood barriers built to protect the city. Giorgio Orsoni and dozens of officials and businessmen are being held over claims of bribery during the public tender process of the Moses project.
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The Vision of the Lake by Fabio Cucchi
Shot made on Lake Annone to Civate, Lecco, Lombardy, Italy.
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What happens to migrants found at sea?
The BBC's Matthew Price has been behind-the scenes on the Bergamini, part of the Italian navy's Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) operation, which patrols the seas in the search for migrant boats. The frigate is under orders to save lives - whether boats are in trouble or not, they will try to intercept them and pick up the passengers.
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Italy police 'solve' 1909 Petrosino Mafia murder
Police on the Italian island of Sicily believe they have solved a Mafia murder mystery dating back to 1909. Joe Petrosino, a New York police officer, was shot dead during a mission to the island to collect evidence. The revelation coincided with the arrest of 95 suspected members of two clans involved in extortion rackets in the island's capital Palermo.
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Italy finds bodies in migrant boat
The Italian navy has found about 30 bodies in a fishing boat carrying hundreds of migrants between Sicily and the North African coast. The migrants who died appeared to have been asphyxiated. The discovery was made when rescuers boarded the vessel to evacuate a number of people said to be in distress, two of them pregnant women.
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Italian Navy Says 30 Found Dead in Migrant Boat
ROME — The bodies of some 30 would-be migrants were found in in the hold of a packed smugglers' boat making its way to Italy, the Italian navy said Monday.
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Italy shipwreck 'leaves 70 missing'
At least 70 migrants have been lost at sea after their boat capsized off Sicily, survivors have said. The latest disaster to hit migrants trying to reach Italy emerged from a group rescued by the Italian navy who spoke to UN workers. Thousands of migrants have tried to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa in recent days.
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