2016 Milan Furniture Fair Set to Open its Doors on 12 April

Snaidero: “We are taking the Fair to Shanghai”. The international series of events which started in Miami will also see the prestigious Fair travel to the Far East. The president: “Our leadership is not in question”

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Italian Hostage: “He Asked the Hostess to Take Our Photo”

The man who kept everyone in suspense for hours has been described as “penniless”, “abnormal”, “an idiot”, “stupid”, and “drunk”, but “apparently not violent”

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Identity of Former Inter Player Maaroufi Used by Terrorist

How the former Inter Milan player ended up in Brussels. After joining Inter’s youth team in 2006, he played six games in the Italian Cup and Serie A. Following transfers to Switzerland, Iran and Paganese, he ended up at Schaerbeek, in the El Bakraoui brothers’ district

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Egyptian Authorities: “Regeni’s Murderers Killed”

First, the authorities report a shootout with a gang. Then the local press suggests a link with the murder of Italian researcher. In the evening, version confirmed by ministry. How will Italy respond?

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Go-Ahead for Banco Popolare-BPM Merger

Boards approve merger to create Italy’s third-largest banking group, with 2,500 branches. Verona’s Banco Popolare issue capital increase of €1bn. Mediobanca pressed for agreement. Nouy (ECB supervisory body) talks of possible further mergers. Carlo Fratta Pasini (Banco Popolare) set to be Chairman, Giuseppe Castagna (BPM) CEO, and Pier Francesco Saviotti head of Executive Committee

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Milan Loses Fo and Rame’s Art Collection

The collection of the two artists, from scripts and photographs to theatre backdrops and masks, is to be housed in a museum-workshop at Verona’s State Archives

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Exchange Students Killed in Spanish Coach Crash

Survivors talk of tragic trip from Barcelona to Valencia

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Italian Eurofighters Engage with Enemy in Skies over Nevada

Red Flag is a highly realistic aerial combat training exercise carried out by the US and its allies in the Nevada desert

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Damages for Family of Soldier Killed by Uranium in Kosovo

Struck down in 2005 by non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The lawyer: “Although aware of lethal exposure to uranium, the Ministry of Defence failed to protect its soldiers.” Court of Appeal of Rome had already rejected Ministry’s appeal against damages

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Former Opponents and Party Militants Pay Homage to Pannella

Coffee and cigarettes at Pannella’s kitchen table in Via della Panetteria. His body has been a crucial element of Radical Party iconography, a vehicle for political messages

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Italy Tired of Attempts to Sidetrack Regeni Investigation

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Record Prices for Luxury Homes in Milan’s Venezia District

Luxury real estate transactions in the city up by 29% in 2015 (compared to 13.5% on the Milan market as a whole). Most expensive sale in Corso Magenta, at €9.3m. Asking price of €13m for a property still on the market in the Venezia district

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Olive Oil Producers Angered by Duty-Free Tunisian Imports

Go-ahead today in Strasbourg for increased imports from North Africa. Over 35,000 tonnes of olive oil set to arrive on the European market duty-free

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Further Details Emerge in Varani Murder Case

Look of understanding between the two killers: “When Luca came in, it just clicked; he was the one.” Foffo: in the past I wanted to hurt people, but now I feel dead inside

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Victim of Brutal, Premeditated Murder “Suffered terribly”

Two friends charged with aggravated murder of 23-year-old. Manuel Foffo’s confession: “We wanted to see what it felt like. We then slept with the dead body in the house.”

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Libya: Italian Hostages Free after Months of Maltreatment

Pollicardo and Calcagno provide prosecutors in Rome with details of their imprisonment for eight months in a cell in the dark, beaten and threatened. “We only found out that our colleagues were dead after we had been released”

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Italians Betrayed by Driver and Killed on Farm Held by IS

Governor of Sabratha: “The two bodies are in our mortuary. No trace of the other Italians.” The kidnapping, the ransom negotiations and the raid on the IS hideout

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Foreign Ministry: Two Italians Used as Human Shields in Libya

Statement from Foreign Ministry mentions Fausto Piano and Salvatore Failla, kidnapped on 20 July. Witness reports that they were used as human shields during a raid against IS in Sabratha. Two further hostages still thought to be held by kidnappers

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Intelligence Report Warns of “Possible Terrorist Attacks”

According to annual report from department coordinating intelligence services, “Italy is increasingly exposed”, with “risk of terrorist attacks, as happened in France”. Situation in Libya of crucial importance, as the country “risks becoming an outpost for terrorist groups”

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Morricone: “My Work Has Been Rewarded”

Oscar-winning composer: “Musicians can’t be expected to play at their own expense.” He also spoke of the 65-year relationship with his wife: “It’s wonderful the way she has put up with me”

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Ploys Used by IS to Recruit Italian Women

The two Islamic militants who recruited initiates in Italy on Skype began by talking about popcorn, before moving on to faith and IS, using a friendly manner and irony to win women over

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