Italy’s government joins a chorus of international condemnation as Rome demands the immediate release of its citizens, aboard the Global Sumud flotilla, illegally detained in international waters. The developing situation takes a new turn with Israel’s announcement that activists will be brought ashore in Greece.
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Report host Sigfrido Ranucci faces a formal reprimand and the withdrawal of RAI’s legal protection after alleging the Carlo Nordio, the justice minister, visited a Uruguayan ranch at the centre of a political storm.
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€10 billion over ten years, 100,000 new homes, 60,000 regenerated units and simplified rules for private buyers. The new housing plan, the Piano Casa, is the government’s most sweeping domestic policy announcement since taking office.
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The international jury of the 61st Venice Biennale has quit en masse a day after culture ministry inspectors arrived on site. This throws the awards process into disarray with the Foundation replacing the jury award process with a visitor vote.
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Prosecutors in Pavia announced on Wednesday that Andrea Sempio, a 37-year-old friend of Chiara Poggi’s younger brother Marco, killed the 26-year-old economics graduate alone on the morning of 13 August 2007. Previously, he had been accused of conspiracy to murder. Alberto Stasi, Poggi’s ex-boyfriend, has served 16 years for her murder.
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Rome takes formal legal action in Swiss courts for the New Year’s Eve disaster in Crans-Montana that killed six Italian teenagers. It also rejects demands that Italy pay for its own victims’ medical care.
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Italy’s culture war over the 61st Biennale escalates. A government investigation and ministerial boycott are afoot with EU funding at risk over the Russian pavilion.
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The Senate has voted unanimously to establish 3 May as an annual day of remembrance in recognition of the journalists – both reporters and camera operators – who paid with their lives to bring the truth to light.
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The scandal surrounding the Nicole Minetti pardon deepens with Interpol now involved in the investigation. Key hospitals deny any knowledge of the child cited as the humanitarian grounds for clemency.
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Italy’s president used a reception for the Strega Prize 80th anniversary to deliver a pointed message about the value of reading to world leaders. The country’s most prestigious literary award, meanwhile, prepares for its most symbolically charged finale yet.
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