Italy, U.S. at Odds Over De Niro Gangster Image
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A bid to give Hollywood heavyweight Robert  De Niro honorary Italian citizenship has pitted adoring fans in  Italy against Italian Americans who say his movie Mafia roles  give them a bad name.
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The flight of a convicted killer enjoying asylum in France has frustrated Italy&#39;s efforts to bring ex-guerrillas to justice and reopened wounds from an era when the Red Brigades terrorized the country.
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Rome - Italy sought on Thursday to play down the credibility of two claims for the murder of two Italian aid workers, both young women, taken hostage in Iraq, but failed to ease gnawing anguish over their fate.
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The flight of a convicted killer enjoying asylum in France has frustrated Italy's efforts to bring ex-guerrillas to justice and reopened wounds from an era when the Red Brigades terrorized the country.
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Rudy Giuliani recently offered an olive branch to his estranged former partner in crimefighting, L.A. Police Chief William Bratton. Now, Bratton returns the favor--but heâs not ready to endorse anyone.
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While Martin Scorsese is feted by Hollywood for his Oscar-winning film "The Departed," relatives of people killed or tortured by the real-life Boston Irish mobster on which the movie is based are not applauding.
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The documentary âBeyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans and the Moviesâ explores why the Italian stereotype of the gun-toting, cannoli-loving mobster looms so large.
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The row over Italy's choice as its European commissioner dominates today's papers.
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U.S. film star Robert De Niro snubbed the country of his forebears twice in as many days, standing up dignitaries in Rome on Friday after refusing a top honor from fashion capital Milan on Thursday.
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With a strong American presence at this year's Venice International Film Festival, it didn't take long for U.S. politics to rear its controversial head.
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Actor Robert De Niro and the growing  Tribeca Film Festival he founded gave support on Thursday to  Rome's new international film competition ahead of its debut in  mid-October.
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Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi on Tuesday urged residents of the southern city Naples to help the government stop a turf war between gangs that has claimed124 lives in the past twelve months.
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BRUSSELS - The United States will reject any request by Italy to extradite CIA agents for the first criminal trial over controversial U.S. "renditions" of terror suspects, a U.S. government lawyer ...Comment
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The Italian businessman at the centre of a furious row between France and Italy over whose intelligence service was to blame for bogus documents suggesting Saddam Hussein was seeking to buy material for nuclear ...
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ROME, Oct 6 (IPS) - Politicians and intellectuals look more and more  worried about Italy's relations with Turkey, as the subject  overlaps with the question of Islam, immigration, and security.
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While Martin Scorsese is feted by  Hollywood for his Oscar-winning film "The Departed," relatives  of people killed or tortured by the real-life Boston Irish  mobster on which the movie is based are not applauding.
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MONTREAL (CP) - Not all Italians are in the Mafia, says restaurant owner Franco Gallo, who's upset and offended that ex-MP Alfonso Gagliano has been linked in a published report to an American crime family.