Italians Stage Pasta Strike
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Consumer groups held nationwide protests Thursday to draw attention to the burden placed on families by the rising cost of food  -  especially Italians' beloved staple, pasta
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Business and travel in Italy ground to a near-halt Tuesday as millions of workers participated in a one-day government strike, the BBC said.
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Dopo aver mietuto 26 vittime tra gli uomini e 200 milioni tra i pennuti, l&#39;influenza degli uccelli (aviaria) torna a far parlare di sÃ©. E ha creare qualche apprensione. Un gruppo di ricercatori olandesi ha
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ITALIAN police yesterday launched a series of dawn raids in Naples in an attempt to end a vicious Mafia war that has claimed more than 20 lives in the past month.
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Millions of workers across Italy are expected to take part in a general strike against the economic policies of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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Post office workers, bank clerks, university teachers, public transport staff, employees of state television and many thousands of other Italians stopped work for four to eight hours
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Italy&#39;s big three unions have staged a nationwide strike to protest against the government&#39;s economic policies, in a show of strength the left said was the start of a campaign to unseat Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
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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&#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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These file photos releas ed on Sept. 7 show two Italian women Simona Pari and Simona Torretta (R) taken hostage in Iraq. An Iraqi militant group known as Jihad Organization claims to have killed two Italian
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Millions of workers joined a general strike in Italy yesterday against the economic policies of Silvio Berlusconi&#39;s centre-Right government.
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L'invito a non mangiarla e soprattutto a non comprarla &egrave; per domani. La protesta per il caro-prezzi della pastasciutta ha un valore tutto simbolico per la tavola italiana
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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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(AGI) - Naples, Italy, Dec. 8 - A fire attack took place last night in an apartment on Via Monte Rosa, at the border between the quarters of Secondigliano and Scampia on the northern suburb of Naples where a bloody camorra feud is under way.
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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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Italy&#39;s three biggest unions staged the fifth general strike since Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi came to power in 2001 to protest his economic policy, disrupting transportation, banking and health services.
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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.