Italy in Hot Seat on Possible Misreporting
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The European Union head office said Tuesday it had concerns over Italian budget deficit figures, only a week after Greece was challenged over alleged sloppy bookkeeping and possible underreporting of deficit figures.
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The Italian government has urged caution on reports that two Italian women being held captive in Iraq have been killed, saying the claims are unreliable and part of a terrorism campaign being carried out ...
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(AGI) - Palermo, Nov. 13 - &quot;I&#39;m puzzled and like me many Italians are in seeing this judiciary persistence against Silvio Berlusconi&quot; regional affairs minister Enrico La Loggia said in an aside at a meeting in Palermo.
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Italy is investigating whether an Italian journalist abducted in Iraq was seized by insurgents or by ordinary criminals hoping for a ransom, a top Foreign Ministry official said Sunday.
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Italy's La Repubblica newspaper on Wednesday rejected accusations by the kidnappers of its correspondent in Afghanistan that the journalist was a spy.
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Italy&#39;s government doubts the reliability of a statement by an Iraqi group that said it killed two female Italian hostages, according to the humanitarian organization that employs the women.
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ROME, Feb 22 (IPS) - The Italian government is in crisis after it failed   to win a vote Wednesday on its foreign policy programme.  Although the  ruling centre-left coalition held only a very  slight majority in the  Senate, the defeat of the motion came as  a major surprise to Prime  Minister Romano Prodi.
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The Italian Foreign Ministry said on  Wednesday it was investigating a claim by an Iraqi photographer  who said militants showed him the body of a man together with  an Italian passport.
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The case of Rocco Buttiglione, the EU commissioner-designate under fire for making disparaging remarks about homosexuals and single mothers, is back on Italy&#39;s front pages.
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Italy has more national holidays than many industrialised countries and most employees get a month&#39;s paid leave on top, but some parliamentarians are demanding more.
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The Italian government rejects accusations that it is illegally aiding the Alitalia airline, a matter the European Commission is investigating.
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On a day when police inspected Turin&#39;s financial records, the IOC urged Italian organizers to sort out their problems soon or risk a crisis of confidence in the 2006 Winter Olympics.
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Once best known for his brash conservatism, Italy's ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi is wrapping up a summer that put him in the news more for his exploits as a party animal &#151; and raised doubts over his political future.
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Culture, etc. The Bush administration yesterday gave Italy the benefit of the doubt amid reports that Rome had paid a terrorist group in Iraq a $1 million ransom to secure the release of two Italian hostages.
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New papers cast doubt on Vatican claims about when it learned of the atrocities at Auschwitz.
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Italy's embattled Prime Minister Romano Prodi may decide to resign rather than risk losing a vote of confidence in the opposition-controlled Senate, Italian media reported Wednesday.
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Italian authorities responded cautiously to reports that an Italian national may have been taken hostage and killed in Iraq.