http://www.news24.com/Tags/Places/italy Argotic Syndication Framework, http://www.codeplex.com/argotic http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:02:11 +0200 Italy's coast guard rescued 95 migrants found clinging to a large tuna fishing cage off the shores of Sicily. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Dramatic-sea-rescue-in-Italy-20130616 A councillor belonging to Italy's anti-immigrant Northern League party has called for the country's first black minister to be raped, sparking an outcry and her expulsion from the party. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Call-to-rape-black-Italian-minister-20130613 Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi wanted to resolve the Libyan civil war in 2011 with a covert operation to kill his friend Muammar Gaddafi, says a high-ranking diplomatic source. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Berlusconi-wanted-Gaddafi-dead-Sources-20130613 Italian diplomats in Tripoli have escaped from their booby-trapped car before it exploded during a shopping trip in the Libyan capital. http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Italian-diplomats-in-Libya-escape-blast-20130611 Italy firmly believes in Turkey's European prospects despite the "disproportionate use of force" by police against demonstrators in mass anti-government protests, says an official. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Italy-Turkey-still-has-European-future-20130604 Spanish police have arrested about 20 suspected members of a mafia group thought to be involved in an international drug-running empire worth around €1bn, a judicial source says. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Spain-police-arrest-Italian-mafia-suspects-20130604 An Italian professor has identified what he believes is the world's oldest complete scroll of the Torah, containing the full text of the first five books of Hebrew scripture. http://www.news24.com/Green/News/Italy-prof-finds-oldest-complete-Torah-20130529 Italy's lower chamber of parliament has ratified a European anti-domestic violence treaty as the country buried its latest female murder victim; a 15-year-old girl. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Italy-tries-to-stop-violence-against-women-20130529 Bikes are outselling cars in cash-strapped Italy and although Milan cyclists are happy, they battle in Rome's busy traffic. http://www.fin24.com/Economy/Crisis-hit-Italians-swap-cars-for-bikes-20130527 Local elections in hundreds of towns across Italy will this weekend test the popularity of the main right and left forces in the new grand coalition led by Prime Minister Enrico Letta. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Right-and-left-parties-fight-for-Rome-20130524 The prosecutor in former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's sex trial has received a series of anonymous letters of threats, including one with two bullets. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Berlusconis-prosecutor-receives-threats-20130523 The woman alleged to have had sex for money with Silvio Berlusconi when she was just 17 and he was the prime minister has testified in court for the first time. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Berlusconi-underage-call-girl-testifies-20130517 An encyclopaedia of Italian political slang has shone a light on a colourful world where lawmakers and journalists speak a language you won't find in any ordinary dictionary. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Italian-politics-Bunga-bunga-to-pianists-20130516 A postman on the Italian island of Sardinia has been charged with the theft of over 400kg of undelivered mail found at his home. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Postman-charged-for-hoardging-mail-20130515 Lawyers for the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner that ran aground off Italy's Tuscan coast in 2012, killing 32 people, say prosecutors have rejected their bid for a plea bargain. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Concordia-captains-plea-bargain-denied-20130514 A third victim of a Ghanaian man who allegedly went on the rampage with a pickaxe in Milan this week has died of his wounds in a case that has inflamed the debate over undocumented migrants. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Third-victim-of-Italy-pickaxe-killer-dies-20130514 Italian prosecutors have called for a six-year jail sentence and a lifetime ban on holding public office for former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Calls-for-a-lifetime-for-Berlusconi-20130513 A rally by Silvio Berlusconi in Italy has heightened tensions in the new coalition government, with Prime Minister Enrico Letta demanding that his ministers stay away from such gatherings. http://www.news24.com/World/News/PM-warns-ministers-after-Berlusconi-rally-20130513-3 An immigrant from Ghana has gone on a rampage with a pickaxe in Milan, killing a passerby and wounding four others in an apparently random attack, police say. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Milan-Man-kills-1-in-pickaxe-rampage-20130511 A Slovak street performer dressed in white papal vestments has been detained and fined by the police in Rome for bearing too close a resemblance to the late John Paul II, the police say. http://www.news24.com/World/News/Fake-pope-held-in-Rome-20130510