Italian culture minister denounces Getty
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Italy's culture minister on Thursday denounced the J. Paul Getty Museum's move to return 26 allegedly looted antiquities as a unilateral act that did not meet Rome's demand for a comprehensive agreement &#151; but he left the door open for further negotiations.
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A London gallery has decided not to show some works of art because it fears they would upset Muslims, a curator said on Friday, a week after a German opera house canned a Mozart production for the same reason.
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The Italian Culture Ministry and the J. Paul Getty Museum of Los Angeles signed an agreement under which the museum will hand over 40 archaeological artifacts that Italy says were looted from its soil.
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Liberal MPs and cabinet ministers came to the defence of Paul Martin Friday against suggestions by ex-minister Alfonso Gagliano that the prime minister made a grave error in abolishing the sponsorship program.
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A leading Vatican official on Friday condemned a US company's announcement that it had created cloned human embryos from adult skin cells.
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An Italian school's substitution of a Nativity play with Little Red Riding Hood so as not to offend Muslim children has raised the Vatican's ire and sparked debate on how much traditions should change to accommodate immigrants.
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Italy&#039;s environment minister lodged an official protest with his German counterpart Tuesday over the killing of a brown bear by a government-sanctioned hunter.
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The head of Italy's influential conference of bishops denounced a leading human rights group on Monday for supporting greater access to abortion.
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov 8 (IPS) - The right-wing government of Italian Prime Minister  Silvio Berlusconi has angrily denied charges of racism against  its coalition partners, accusations made in a U.N. report on  xenophobia, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia released here.
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The Italian minister nominated as EU justice and home affairs commissioner has denied criticising single mothers. Rocco Buttiglione is already at the centre of a row after being rejected by the European Parliament
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The architect of Copenhagen's new opera house, which will open Saturday, has publicly denounced it after the design was changed to incorporate the donor's ideas.
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ROME : Italy&#39;s disputed nominee for the EU justice and security commissioner&#39;s post denied having made new comments denigrating the role of women and said he was being victimized by the media.
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ROME - A diplomatic row has erupted between Italy and the European Parliament after the latter rejected an anti-gay Italian minister as a European commissioner.
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Germany's interior minister condemned a leading opera house's decision to cancel a production of Mozart's "Idomeneo" out of concern a scene featuring the severed head of the Prophet Muhammad could provoke a dangerous reaction from Muslims.
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Italian papers see MEPs&#39; rejection of Italy&#39;s nominee for European justice commissioner as a national humiliation - but some show a certain understanding for the decision, criticising Rocco Buttiglione&#39;s stance.
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Jewish groups and politicians in Italy criticise a decision to grant day release to a convicted Nazi war criminal.
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Italian officials said they will drop a civil lawsuit in the trial of the J. Paul Getty Museum's former curator after the Los Angeles institution formally signed a deal Tuesday to return 40 contested artifacts.