Italians rally for gay and unwed couples' rights
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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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Thousands of Italians gathered  under heavy police guard on Saturday to protest against the  expansion of a U.S. military base that has aroused strong  opposition and divided the center-left government.
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Hundreds of gay couples were granted the same legal rights, if not the title, as married couples Monday as New Jersey became the third state to offer civil unions.
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Domani la giornata nazionale dell'orgoglio gay e lesbico. Partenza alle 16da piazzale Ostiense. Almeno quaranta carri. Cerimonia finale in piazza S.Giovanni                                          Gay pride, centomila in arrivo Unione divisa tra polemiche e manifesti                                                                                  I contrasti della vigilia tra teodem e laici. Poi il compromesso del "patrocinio mignon"Presenti i ministri Ferrero e Diliberto. L'adesione di Bonino, Mussi, Migliore e tutta la sinistra radicale
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The case of Rocco Buttiglione, the EU commissioner-designate under fire for making disparaging remarks about homosexuals and single mothers, is back on Italy&#39;s front pages.
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Tens of thousands of Italians  under heavy police guard marched through the city of Vicenza on  Saturday to protest at the expansion of a U.S. military base  that has divided the center-left government.
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Italy&#39;s small Muslim community took part in demonstrations around the country on Saturday to add its voice to a chorus of calls for the release of two Italian female aid workers abducted in Iraq last week.
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Pope Benedict on Saturday attacked "lobbies" he blamed for unraveling the traditional family, as he escalated a war of words against Italian draft legislation that would recognize unwed and gay couples.
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Gays, lesbians and their supporters from all over Europe were set to gather in their hundreds of thousands here Saturday in a massive parade, as London and Paris also held their annual Gay Pride marches.
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Italy's Foreign Minister Franco Frattini has slammed the refusal by European lawmakers to endorse Italy's candidate for justice commissioner because of his views on gays as an attack on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his centre-right government.
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Tens of thousands of people from across Italy march in Rome to demand work and pension reforms.
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Rome) An Italian cabinet minister Wednesday launched into a homophobic tirade in response to this weeks rebuke of the country's nominee for the European Union's Commissioner for Justice.
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Conservative groups in New Jersey are pushing a proposal that would grant the rights of marriage &#151; but not the title &#151; to gays, siblings and others involved in domestic partnerships.
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Gay couples in New Jersey get new legal rights as it becomes the third US state to offer civil unions.
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Banners and flags are seen during a demonstration in Vicenza. Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Vicenza, Italy, to protest the planned expansion of a US military base here, a divisive ...Comment
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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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BUCHAREST, Jun 27 (IPS) - The third Gay Pride Parade that drew strong  opposition earlier this month underlines the fact that gay rights  are far from being accepted in this country.