After Riots, Soccer Ban Shocks Italy
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Italy's football industry urged government and sporting authorities meeting on Monday to lift a ban on soccer matches as the nation prepared to bury a policeman killed by rioting fans.Comment
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Following a wave of criticism from opposition parties and human rights organisations, Italy has stopped its wholesale deportation from Lampedusa of more than 1,300 refugees to Libya, where Italy believes they have come from.
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Italy's reputation for religious tolerance was in the balance last week after a ban on women wearing burqas instigated in a tiny Alpine village began spreading across the country.
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SOCCER matches in Italy will resume this weekend after the government approved a tough set of measures to fight hooliganism, despite resistance by clubs.Comment
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Italy's players and club officials have reacted with dismay to the decision to declare all bar six venues closed to supporters on security grounds.Comment
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Sport: Fifa has provoked outcry in South America with its decision to ban matches at high altitude.
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Italy's cabinet approved on Wednesday a tough set of measures to tackle hooliganism at soccer stadiums, Vannino Chiti, the minister for relations with parliament, said.
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The beautiful game turned vicious, even venomous Sunday. It was all still beautiful to Italy. And very ugly for France, which lost captain Zinedine Zidane with a red card after his nasty head butt in extra time, and then went down 5-3 in a shootout after a 1-1 draw.
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Italy ground to a halt as millions of workers observed a general strike in protest against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi&#39;s centre-right government.
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The Socceroos were tough on Italy. The referee was tougher on Australia. Another questionable call in this World Cup showed Italy the way to the quarterfinal Monday, giving the Italians a penalty kick that Francesco Totti converted for the 1-0 win as time expired.
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Just days after winning its fourth World Cup title, Italian soccer suffered an all-time low as four top clubs &amp;#151; including powerhouse Juventus &amp;#151; and top officials and referees were sanctioned for match-fixing.
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Italy and the United States  slugged out a bruising 1-1 draw in the most controversial match  of the World Cup so far in which three players were sent off in  their Group E clash on Saturday.
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The Italian soccer federation threatened to suspend games indefinitely after a police officer was killed and more than 70 people were injured when fans rioted at a soccer match.Comment
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Police broke up two brief but violent disturbances involving English soccer fans Saturday, arresting more than 300 people the day before England plays Ecuador in a World Cup second-round match.
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AS Roma&#39;s Champions League match against Dynamo Kiev was suspended at halftime Wednesday after Swedish referee Anders Frisk was hit with an object thrown from the stands and left the field with blood dripping from his forehead.
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The Italian league resumes Sunday, more than a week after all professional soccer in Italy is suspended because of fan violence.
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Italyâs fragile government snapped over internal divisions and skepticism about Europeâs role in fighting terrorism.