News about Italy

Star revels banish gloom in Italy's floating city Karaoke parties, fancy dress and spaghetti at dawn: Hollywood's prima-donna stars have brought light relief to a Venice film festival plagued by dark tales of incest, necrophilia, cannibalism and suicide.
06 September 2013 18:17
Politician says Venice museum damaged by French demand An Italian local politician has alleged the Doge's Palace in Venice was damaged to install an air-conditioning system demanded by a French museum for a rare Manet exhibition.
02 September 2013 19:10
"Harry Potter" fans stampede for Radcliffe in Venice The Venice film festival descended briefly into chaos Sunday as screaming "Harry Potter" fans stampeded across the seafront after British star Daniel Radcliffe, in town to present his new film.
02 September 2013 16:06
Stars land in Venice for fiendish film fest The Venice film festival kicks off Wednesday with the arrival of movie stars on water taxis for a dark line-up flush with fiendish tales of abuse, betrayal and survival.
28 August 2013 18:18
Amanda Knox won't return to Italy for murder retrial American Amanda Knox will not return to Italy for a retrial -- due to begin next month -- for the 2007 death of her British roommate.
26 August 2013 19:28
British, US films compete for Venice Golden Lion prize Hollywood honchos and aspiring stars will be boating into Venice for a dark, crisis-themed film festival, with British and American films dominating the race for the coveted Golden Lion award.
23 August 2013 17:25
Long-lost Orson Welles film turns up in Italy A long-lost silent film directed by Orson Welles in 1938 has been recovered from a warehouse in northeastern Italy, where it will be screened in public for the first time in October.
08 August 2013 17:08
Kazakhstan’s Foreign Ministry on statements of Italian politicians following deportation of Mr. Ablyazov’s wife We believe politicians and officials should be more responsible when it comes to public statements and assessments of bilateral relations and of other nations’ foreign policies: Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman.
05 August 2013 19:52
Italian deputies visit Shalabayeva in Kazakhstan Five representatives of the Italian parliament arrived in Almaty to meet with Alma Shalabayeva, the wife of former chairman of BTA Bank Mukhtar Ablyazov.
05 August 2013 17:16
Italy government 'must forge ahead': Berlusconi Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi said Sunday the government "must forge ahead" amid high tension on the political scene after he was handed his first definitive conviction by the country's highest court.
05 August 2013 15:34
Rome diverts traffic to protect Colosseum The city of Rome from Saturday barred private vehicles from using the main road to the Colosseum in order to protect the iconic monument that has been blackened by pollution and is in a poor state.
05 August 2013 01:38
Italy's Berlusconi loses final appeal in landmark case Italy's ex-leader Silvio Berlusconi has lost his final appeal against a tax fraud sentence in a ruling that jolted the political establishment on Friday but left the government in place for now.
02 August 2013 12:34
Kazakhstan Ambassador tells Italians about Ablyazov's crimes Kazakhstan Ambassador to Italy Andrian Yelemessov calls Mukhtar Ablyazov “a convicted criminal” in his article in Foreign Policy Journal.
01 August 2013 16:28
Kazakhstan director's movie featured in Vienna Bauyr (Little Brother) movie by Kazakhstan director Serik Aprymov has been entered into the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival.
31 July 2013 18:01
Italy starts investigating Shalabayeva's deportation Italian prosecutors have initiated an investigation into the deportation from Italy of Alma Shalabayeva, the wife of the exile banker from Kazakhstan Mukhtar Ablyazov.
31 July 2013 11:27
Berlusconi's fate in the balance in key trial hearings Italy's top court begins crucial hearings for former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday that will decide whether to confirm a one-year prison sentence and a five-year ban from politics.
30 July 2013 16:44
Thirty-six killed in Italy coach crash: rescue services At least 36 people were killed and several more injured after a coach carrying pilgrims plunged off a motorway flyover in southern Italy.
29 July 2013 11:32
Time to train for world's first fleet of marine drones An odd underwater ballet has been unfolding in the Mediterranean port of Toulon these past few days.
27 July 2013 12:15
Kazakhstan may allow Shalabayeva return to Italy Kazakhstan may allow the wife of former BTA Bank’s chairman Mukhtar Ablyazov go back to Italy.
24 July 2013 17:08
Shalabayeva's deportation will not shaken relations between Kazakhstan and Italy: Ministry The recent deportation of the wife of former head of BTA Bank Mukhtar Ablyazov to Kazakhstan will not spoil the relations between Kazakhstan and Italy.
24 July 2013 17:00
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