Rome (dpa) – Gay rights activists in Italy welcomed Monday the decision to issue a residence permit to a Uruguayan man whose application was initially rejected because his same-sex marriage to an Italian is not recognized by the country's laws.
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Milan, Italy (dpa) – A reservoir of more than 283 billion cubic meters of gas has been discovered off the coast of Mozambique, Italian fuel company Eni said Monday.
The “new giant natural gas discovery” was made at the Mamba North East 1 (...)
Paris/Rome (dpa) – Nine leading European aviation companies have written to political leaders in Germany, France, Britain and Spain asking for action to offset a backlash from an environmental tax on flights operating in European Union (...)
Rome (dpa) – The boyfriend of a Morroccan go-go dancer at the center of a sex scandal involving former premier Silvio Berlusconi has been ordered to stand trial on underage pornography charges, Italian media reported Friday.
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Rome/Strasbourg: The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled that Italy had violated it human rights obligations when it deported a group of African migrants intercepted in the Mediterranean Sea to Libya in 2009.
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Rome (dpa) – Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and US high-tech billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates were set to discuss climate change issues affecting agriculture at a United Nations conference that began (...)
Rome (dpa) – A four-day Vatican-sponsored symposium on ways to prevent and detect sexual abuses of minors by clerics began in Rome on Monday, attended by representatives from Catholic dioceses around the world.
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Rome (dpa) – Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti on Wednesday asked his Somali counterpart, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, to help secure the release of an Italian tanker hijacked by pirates in December.
During a meeting in Rome, Monti expressed hope that (...)
Rome (dpa) – Police detectives were Friday expected to provide a court im Milan with more evidence on alleged sex parties hosted by Silvio Berlusconi.
Italy's former prime minister is facing charges of having paid an underage prostitute for (...)
Rome (dpa) – Global food prices hit a record high in 2011 despite falling by 2.4 per cent in December, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Thursday.
The Rome-based FAO said its Food Price Index in December was 11.3 per cent (27 (...)
Rome (dpa) – Italy's antitrust authority said Tuesday it has fined US technology giant Apple a total of 900,000 euros (1.7 million dollars) for misleading consumers on post-purchase assistance and warranties for its products.
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Vatican City (dpa) – In his traditional Christmas Day message on Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI urged the faithful to seek a “spiritual union” with the less fortunate around the world, including in Africa and Asia, where people are suffering from the (...)
Rome (dpa) – The Vatican on Wednesday denied reports that it had bought the web domain vatican.xxx to prevent internet pornographers from using it.
Papal spokesman Father Federico Lombardi referred to reports that the Holy See had purchased the (...)
Vatican City (dpa) – The Vatican condemned a Christmas Day attack on a church in Nigeria, with Pope Benedict XVI's spokesman describing it as the fruit of “cruelty and blind hatred.”
Father Federico Lombardi was commenting on reports that at (...)
Vatican City (dpa) – Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday reflected on his journeys abroad this year, saying he had drawn inspiration from his visit to Africa which, according to the pontiff, unlike Europe shows no sign of a “faith fatigue.”
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Rome (dpa) – A pillar has collapsed at one of Pompeii's most well-preserved buildings, officials in Italy said Thursday, the latest in a series of accidents to befall the treasured archaeological site.
The collapse took place on an external area (...)