“Don’t Come to Syria, Blow Yourself up in Italy”

Investigators examine WhatsApp voice messages used to enlist terrorists: “Italy is the land of crusaders, and you know that if you attack there it will be a great deed.” Jihadist boxer: “If I can get my family to safety, I swear I’ll carry out an attack in the Vatican”

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Officers from Beijing to Patrol Chinatowns in Milan and Rome

Go-ahead for Interior Ministry’s experimental project. In Milan, Chinese officers will work in the centre and Via Paolo Sarpi; in Rome, around Piazza Vittorio, Termini station and Santa Maria Maggiore

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Migrants: Where the Welfare System Went Wrong

Room and board with no obligations to work or study: this is the approach to welfare taken in Italian refugee centres, and is the exact opposite of the German model. The Interior Ministry has written to mayors asking them to have asylum seekers do small jobs for the council, but so far without any result

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Intern at Court Was Serving 30-Year Sentence for Murder

Post-graduate school offering professional qualification courses was unaware of his identity, and gave him access to offices and confidential information of investigating magistrates in Milan

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Tito Italys Oldest Sauropod Came over from Africa

Three fossilized dinosaur bones made it possible to reconstruct the Titanosaurs’ oldest representative in southern Europe, which lived 112 million years ago

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Gun-Toting Teenage Neapolitan Mobsters Pose on Facebook

Guns shown off for the enjoyment of friends, and posts expressing contempt for the police and carabinieri

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Turnout of 31.18% as Referendum Fails to Stop Drilling

Renzi: “Playing to the crowd doesn’t pay.” A quorum was still far off when polling stations closed their doors at 11 pm on Sunday night, and according to the latest figures, only Basilicata went over the 50% threshold required for a valid vote. Lowest turnouts in Trentino Alto Adige, Campania, Sicily and Calabria

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Champions League Final: Hotel Rooms at €4000 for Two Nights

Hotels are already 85% full, and owners argue that price rises are normal in a free market

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Padoan Dismisses Discrepancies in GDP Forecasts

The Economy Minister, talking in the United States, focused on the discrepancies between the forecasts contained in Italy’s economic programme and the less rosy view taken by IMF economists: “Our forecasts have a very low margin of error, and we’ll see who is right, us or the IMF”

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Umbrella Killer Back in Jail for Posting Photos on Facebook

On 26 April 2007, Doina Matei killed Vanessa Russo by striking her in the eye with an umbrella after a heated argument in a Rome metro station

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Austria Builds Wall in Brenner Pass to Stop Migrants

Decision made without consulting Bolzano, that reopens wounds from 70 years ago. The Brenner Pass and the border that symbolises South Tyrolean discontent, as governor seeks help from Rome

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Mattia, from Milan University to Hillary Clinton’s Staff

The 26-year-old taken on as an intern for the Presidential elections. He is the only Italian in the team, and works in the Brooklyn headquarters of the former first lady

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Matteo, 13: “How I Beat My Hash Addiction”

The story of an addiction, a family and the decision to seek help: “I sold drugs to pay for my own ten grams of hash a day. The first time, I was the one who asked to try it because I felt excluded from the group”

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Cortina, Women Don Veils after Failure to Introduce Reform

For the third time, the Assembly of the Comunanza delle Regole Ampezzane has rejected a move to allow wives, sisters and daughters to become members of the historic institution

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Riina’s Son on TV. “I Love My Father; I Don’t Judge Him”

What is the Mafia? “I’ve never really thought about it; I don’t know what it is. Today, “Mafia” can mean everything and nothing. It’s not only the Mafia that deals in murders and drug trafficking.”

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Son of Salvatore Riina Talks of His Life with the Mafia Boss

His son says how: “We spent evenings together watching the America’s Cup on TV. He never dined out. I remember he didn’t say a word when the bombs went off at Capaci. The victims? I prefer not to discuss that. I’m not talking about the Mafia, and if you ask me what I think about it, I won’t answer

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Panama Papers: Italians Involved, from Trulli to Montezemolo

In addition to the former Formula 1 driver and the chairman of Alitalia, there are a further 800 names, including a former business partner of Dell’Utri and one of the children of Nino Rovelli, former owner of SIR

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Bertone: “30 Cardinals Have Larger Homes; Why Should I Go?”

“I won’t give in to those who attack me. It looks like a move to divert attention from Vatileaks”

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