Angry Italians hold &quot;pasta strike&quot; over price hike
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Many Italians excluded their beloved pasta from their supermarket shopping on Thursday in protest at forthcoming price rises and consumer groups hailed the boycott as an excellent result.
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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's centre-right government.
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A group of Italian senators want ice cream in their cafeteria to &quot;improve the quality of life&quot; in the Senate, astonishing observers as Italy&#39;s political class faces a growing backlash over its handsome pay and perks.
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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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Unions at Alitalia airlines are harshly criticizing plans to slash 5,000 jobs at the ailing Italian company. One of Alitalia&#39;s smaller unions said it would stage a hunger strike to protest the cuts.
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"The southern European member states want to use this regulation to turn back the time, and they want to protect designations that have clearly become generic"  Parmesan or Parmigiano? The difference is lost on most consumers -- as long as lots of it is grated on some al dente pasta. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Inflazione. Istat: prezzi in calo a settembre: 2,1% annuo. Berlusconi: una buona notizia per gli italiani. &quot;Una buona notizia per il potere d&#39;acquisto dei cittadini italiani&quot;, commenta il presidente del Consiglio
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Global finance titan Citigroup said it was challenging the Italian government's reorganization plan for bankrupt food group Parmalat, claiming the bank is not being compensated for losses from massive fraud.
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Be it fettuccine, linguine or spaghetti, Italians will soon be paying up to 20 percent more for their pasta.
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Consumer groups call one-day pasta-buying boycott in protest at increasing costs that have seen its price rise by almost 20%.
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Trionfano gli alimenti leggeri. Arricchiti. Addizionati. Che promettono di tenere sotto controllo peso e colesterolo. Vero? In massima parte, no. Ecco perchÃ©
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Un tavolo su prezzi e tariffe e un altro sulla competitivita&#39;. E&#39; il ministro dell&#39;Economia Domenico Siniscalco ad auspicare l&#39;apertura del doppio confronto con sindacati e industriali. Nella Finanziaria 2005, inoltre, &#39;&#39;non ci saranno nuovi condoni&#39;&#39;.
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Tens of thousands of Italian farmers protested Wednesday against the lack of clear and detailed labels on agricultural products, saying cheap imports from China were hurting their bottom line.
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VICENZA, Italy  - Tens of thousands of Italians under heavy police guard protested on Saturday against the expansion of a U.S. military base that has divided the center-left government.
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Thousands of Italians rallied on Saturday  for legal rights for unmarried gay and heterosexual couples  while Roman Catholics launched a movement against what many of  them consider an attack on the "traditional" family.
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Italy ground to a halt as millions of workers observed a general strike in a show of force against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition government.
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Italian pasta makers face an investigation by Italy's regulator into alleged price fixing of one of the country's staple foods.   The cost of pasta in Italy is set to rise because durum wheat is increasingly being used as a bio-fuel, manufacturers say.