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A recent spate of violence against immigrants across Italy is fueling a national conversation about racism and tolerance.

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Holders Italy were reasonably happy with Saturday’s 0-0 draw against Bulgaria in World Cup qualifying Group Eight but were less pleased by some minor crowd trouble in Sofia.

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Renaissance artistry blooms at Villa Lante, Bomarzo, Ninfa and other elaborate landscapes just a drive away from the Vatican. Bagnaia, Italy

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Marina Petrella, a former member of the Italian Red Brigades, will not be extradited from France to Italy, where she was convicted of killing of a police officer, because of her poor health.

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… ennui (or noia, to be exact), suffused with the 20th-century secular sexuality that makes Italy, like Brazil, Catholic and sensual at the same time.Italo Calvino showed that an Italian novelist could best the French at their own surrealist, postmodernist, Oulipo-nutty ways. (The “Oulipeans,” such as Paris-based Georges Perec, liked to write novels without a particular letter, among…

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Bulgaria held champions Italy to a combative 0-0 draw in a 2010 World Cup Group Eight qualifier on Saturday.

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Police in the Naples area arrested seven alleged mobsters on Saturday, including an actor who played a boss in an award-winning movie denouncing the mafia.

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Sofia, Bulgaria - World champions Italy drew 0-0 at Bulgaria Saturday to keep the lead in their World Cup qualifying group. The Azzurri have seven points from three games in Group 8, leading Ireland who have four points but played two games, while Bu…

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Italy will propose broadening the Group of Seven nations and giving new and different tasks to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, Italian Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti said on Saturday.

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