Italy

AP - Four immigrants who have lived atop a 35-meter (115-foot) crane for two weeks to protest Italy’s immigration policies have climbed down.

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Reuters - A package addressed to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi found on a cargo plane from Athens caught fire when police opened it, an Italian police source said Wednesday.

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AFP - Northern Ireland manager Nigel Worthington insisted his side should have claimed a famous scalp after they held four-time world champions Italy to a 0-0 draw in a Euro…

AP - Jewish groups expressed outrage Wednesday that a former Nazi SS captain convicted for his role in the massacre of 335 civilians in Italy has been allowed to leave…

AP - Coast guards are hunting for a pair of missing American balloonists last detected piloting their craft over the Adriatic Sea in rough weather, officials said Wednesday.

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AP - Italy’s environment minister says an upcoming U.N. climate summit won’t broker a global accord on climate change, but may represent a step towards such an agreement.

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AP - Italian police confiscated some 70,000 balls of mozzarella in Turin after consumers noticed the milky-white cheese quickly developed a bluish tint when the package was opened, authorities said…

AP - Italy’s bishops’ conference provided the first ever statistics of clerical sex abuse in the country Tuesday, saying there had been about 100 cases over the past 10 years…

AP - Cultural figures in Italy are mourning the death of Edoardo Sanguineti, a poet and critic whose playful use of language made him an important neo-avant-garde writer on the…

AP - Eurocontrol says it expects further flight disruptions in European airspace as a plume of volcanic ash snakes through southern France, Switzerland and northern Italy.

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