Neapolitans take stand against Mafia turf war
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Thirty people have been killed in Naples, Italy, in the past two months, including two on Monday.
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Police have detained more than 50 people in a swoop on the local mafia, known as the Camorra, in the southern Italian city of Naples, which has been the scene of an escalating turf war.
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PADUA, Sep 5 (IPS) - 'Stop the Wall', say the posters on the  three-metre high metal panels that have come up to isolate the  migrant estate on Anelli Road from their surroundings in Padua.
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VENICE, Italy - Robert De Niro dismissed accusations that his Mafia roles have smeared the image of Italian-Americans, arguing that he plays realistic characters including many who could not be construed as stereotypes.    De Niro's defense Friday came after the Order Sons of Italy in America, a fraternal organization of Americans of Italian heritage, wrote a letter to the Italian government, urging it to cancel its plan to award the actor honorary citizenship...
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Angry Neapolitans blocked railway  tracks, hurled stones at police and overturned vehicles on  Saturday to protest against plans to reopen a waste dump to  deal with the city's long-running refuse crisis.
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An Italian police officer is due in court  to answer charges that he had links with the Mafia.
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Thousands of supporters of legislation that would grant legal rights to unmarried couples including gays rallied Saturday to urge Italian lawmakers to resist Vatican pressure against the measure.Comment
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The controversy over Italyâs 30-year-old law legalizing abortion stirred up demonstrations this week in its defense.
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Latino groups in a US town mount a legal challenge to the local authorities' power to tackle illegal immigration.
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Police in Naples have smashed a Mafia "summit" and arrested seven people suspected of involvement in an escalating war between rival gangs, Italian media reported on Thursday.
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The haul has been codenamed "Old Bridge". It could be the beginningof a series of assaults against the "Cosa Nostra" 'families' in America                                          90 jailed in Palermo and New York the bosses of the new Italy-Usa pact
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Another Serie A season is in the pipelines and this coming weekend will see the start of what promises to be a hard fought campaign in which the usual teams will be competing for the top honour.
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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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A pair of mob shootings in three days, one of them reminiscent of a hit on last week's episode of "The Sopranos," prompted speculation of a nascent Mafia war in New York City.
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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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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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An Italian town&#39;s mayor hopes to shame men  into not using prostitutes by photographing cars that pick them  up and publishing the details in local newspapers.