Sunday, 23 March 2014 Over 89 percent of residents in Italy’s Veneto region have voted in an unofficial referendum in favor of independence from the rest of the country as Venetians seek to restore the glory of the old days… Read More ›
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Venice wants to secede from Italy
Sunday, 16 March 2014 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. La Serenissima — or… Read More ›
Blood of Pope John Paul stolen in possible ‘satanic’ theft
Italian police search for a stolen religious reliquary that contains the blood of dead Pope At John Paul II’s funeral in 2005, crowds of mourners cried “Santo Subito!” – “Sainthood now” – prompting the Vatican to speed up the Polish… Read More ›
Italy’s president fears violent insurrection in 2014 but offers no remedy
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Economics Last updated: December 17th, 2013 Hundreds of students wrap themselves in an Italian tricolour during a Pitchforks Movement protest in Turin on Wednesday. (Photo: EPA) Events in Italy are turning serious. President Giorgio Napolitano… Read More ›
‘Your mother loved you very much and wanted to keep you’: Judge’s remarkable message to baby girl of woman who was forced to have caesarean
Judge Roderick Newton, who ruled that the baby born to sedated mother be put up for adoption, tells child her mother wanted to keep her Girl was born to mother, who has bipolar disorder, by court-ordered caesarean 15 months ago… Read More ›
App could allow troops to call in airstrikes
Oct. 18, 2013 | Laura Major of Draper Laboratory holds an Android device with the airstrike app open. (Draper Laboratory) Written by Stephen Losey In the near future, troops on the battlefield could call in airstrikes not with a radio… Read More ›
Hard-up Italy to sell 50 historic sites in bid to raise £425million to pay off government debt
A fortress, a palace and an island will be auctioned to tackle the deficit Economy minister Fabrizio Saccomanni hopes to make £425million The sale will be followed by a further £1billion of austerity measures By Daily Mail Reporter and Hannah… Read More ›
Syria: intervention could unleash global war, Vatican warns
Striking Syria would extend the violence, Monsignor Toso says 02 September, 15:50 (ANSAmed) – ROME, SEPTEMBER 2 – ”The way to solve Syria’s problems cannot be an armed intervention. It would not decrease the violence, but rather risks exploding it… Read More ›
Top prelate, spy, broker arrested in Vatican bank probe
IOR woes continue, Vatican will collaborate ‘fully’ with judges 28 June, 13:15 (ANSAmed) – ROME – Italian police on Friday arrested a prelate in charge of Vatican accounts, a member of Italy’s domestic intelligence service and a… Read More ›
Silvio Berlusconi ‘asked Italy’s secret service to bump off Muammar Gaddafi’
Michael Day Thursday, 13 June 2013 Silvio Berlusconi asked Italy’s secret services to bump off Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, so the then premier could end his increasingly embarrassing ties with the Libyan dictator, it was claimed today. Mr Berlusconi’s… Read More ›
Face values: Ability to recognize emotions in others impaired by AIDS
Contact: Hilary Glover hilary.glover@biomedcentral.com 44-020-319-22370 BioMed Central People with HIV are less able to recognise facial emotion than non-infected people finds a study published in the launch edition of BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Psychology. Reduction in their ability… Read More ›
Italy halts austerity plan leaving EU in turmoil
Fears that deadlock will lengthen Italy’s two-year recession and spill over into rest of the eurozone hit markets across Europe Ian Traynor in Brussels, John Hooper in Rome and Phillip Inman The Guardian, Tuesday 26 February 2013 15.38 EST Italy’s decision… Read More ›
Papal resignation linked to inquiry into ‘Vatican gay officials’, says paper
Pope’s staff decline to confirm or deny La Repubblica claims linking ‘Vatileaks’ affair and discovery of ‘blackmailed gay clergy’ John Hooper in Rome The Guardian, Thursday 21 February 2013 The Vatican is awhirl with rumours about the pope’s decision… Read More ›
Pope Benedict’s retirement plans may open him up to prosecution by the International Criminal Court
EEV: We only take the position, of bringing attention to this unprecedented legal issue. Abuse Victims Welcome Pope’s Retirement By JACK BOUBOUSHIAN (CN) – Pope Benedict’s retirement plans may open him up to prosecution by the International Criminal Court for… Read More ›
Italy hails ‘an outbreak of modernity in the Church’ as Pope Benedict XVI announces he will resign because of ill health
Pope Benedict XVI is the first pontiff to stand down in nearly 600 years Jerome Taylor, Nick Clark Monday, 11 February 2013 Pope Benedict XVI has announced that he will resign the papacy because of ill health, according to the… Read More ›
Italian elections may decide euro’s fate
It’s Monti vs. Berlusconi as Yuletide sparring launches campaign. Paul Ames December 28, 2012 06:15 ROME, Italy — Italians took a break from politics for most of 2012. Bitter party rivals buried their grievances to give a non-elected, technocratic government… Read More ›
WHEN in Rome, you get a little hit of cocaine with every breath.
20 October 2012 Magazine issue 2887. A study of psychotropic drug levels in ambient air from eight Italian cities found background levels of cocaine, cannabinoids – the active ingredients in marijuana – nicotine and caffeine in every urban centre. Turin… Read More ›
IMF’s epic plan to conjure away debt and dethrone bankers
So there is a magic wand after all. A revolutionary paper by the International Monetary Fund claims that one could eliminate the net public debt of the US at a stroke, and by implication do the same for Britain, Germany,… Read More ›
Biofuels Benefit Billionaires
ScienceDaily (Oct. 11, 2012) — Biofuels will serve the interests of large industrial groups rather than helping to cut carbon emissions and ward off climate change, according to research to be published in the International Journal of Environment and Health… Read More ›
Mass rally in Venice to call for independence from Italy
Two centuries after Napoleonic forces snuffed out the 1,000-year Venetian Republic, Venetians are once again aspiring to become an independent state. Activists dream of carving out a new country in north-eastern Italy Photo: Alamy By Nick Squires, Rome 1:38PM BST… Read More ›
Italian unions strike against Monti, close Colosseum 1 of 7. A protester covers himself with a CGIL union flag during a rally in downtown Rome September 28, 2012. Two of Italy’s biggest unions marched through Rome on Friday to protest… Read More ›
Occupy Coal Mine: Sardinian Miners Barricade Themselves Underground
Aug 28, 2012 10:12 AM EDT Armed with 770 pounds of dynamite, 120 Sardinian miners have barricaded themselves 1,300 feet underground in an austerity-driven protest. Barbie Latza Nadeau reports on the standoff. Hours before 120 coal miners barricaded themselves 1,300… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 