Mob rule takes a hit as Italy fights back
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MAFIA investigators christened him The Ambassador. After a seven-year trial in the bunker of a Palermo jail, Sicilian senator Marcello Dell&#39;Utri, an old friend and political patron of Italian Prime Minister
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A World Cup victory few expected. A corruption scandal that disgraced some of Italy's most famous clubs. And now, the death of a police officer during riots by Sicilian soccer fans.
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Italian police on Thursday rounded up dozens of members of a notorious mafia family, whose internal feuding has been blamed for the slaying of six Italian men in Germany two weeks ago.
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Soccer fans won't be allowed into stadiums in Italy unless security measures are met, a decision that comes days after rioting at a game in Sicily in which a police officer was killed.
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ROME (Italy): Italy faced a standstill as millions of workers took part in a general strike against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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NAPLES, Italy  - Italian police raided scores of homes in the Naples area Tuesday and arrested 52 suspected mobsters, the largest single offensive in the state's bid to end a bloody organized crime war that has terrified this southern Italian city.
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The mafia's laws are simple: avoid killing if you can, and kill discreetly if you can't. However, laws were made to broken.
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Rome, Dec. 1 (NNN) : Italy was on Tuesday virtually crippled as millions of workers staged a one-day walk-out against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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Soccer fans will be allowed into stadiums in Italy unless security measures are met, a decision that comes days after rioting at a game in Sicily in which a police officer was killed.
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Emerging rival mafia clans are locked in a murderous power struggle for control of the drugs market.
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A bitter row breaks out in Italy over a decision  to dismiss terrorist charges against five Islamic fundamentalists
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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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As economic woes mount, Italians want to make it more difficult for members of small coalitions to topple a government.
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The row over Italian commissioner Rocco Buttiglione highlights the Vatican's struggle for influence in Europe.
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Thousands of Italian football fans face a Sunday in front of the television set as officials enforce tough rules aimed at curbing hooliganism after a policeman died during a violent match last week.
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Anti-globalization and far-left activists from across Italy were converging on the capital Saturday to protest against President Bush during his visit to Rome and the Vatican.
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Italy must not just win- they must triumph- against Belarus on Wednesday in Parma in order to redeem their humiliating loss at Slovenia suffered last weekend.