Ruling expands Italy's pecking order
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Yell for a doctor in an Italian moviehouse and you risk a stampede. Almost everybody here, it seems, is a ``dottore.'' Or ``professore'' or ``maestro'' or some other honorific.
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Lifestyle: 23 September 2004, Thursday. Bulgaria and Italy have proved to strengthen all kinds of bilateral relations, putting the stress on cultural events alongside economic relations.
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ROME, Oct. 5. - Italy has defended its new policy of airlifting illegal immigrants straight back to Libya the maoment they set foot on Italian soil as an âemergency measureâ.
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La decisione &egrave; di un'azienda inglese. E in Gran Bretagna pronte delle norme per non discriminare i lavoratori maturi. Trovalavoro
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Italy's municipal elections give a boost to Romano Prodi's centre-left bloc after tight national polls.
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ROME: After winning union backing for job cuts, Alitalia has given formal approval to a four-year business plan aimed at saving the near-bankrupt Italian carrier from collapse.
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BRUSSELS A four-year plan to rescue Alitalia will get the approval of the European Commission, as long as it does not bank on any new money from the Italian government, the commission said Tuesday.
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A COURT has cleared Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of corruption charges in his long-running trial, sparing Italy the potential embarrassment of having its leader convicted of bribing judges.
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The row over Italy's choice as its European commissioner dominates today's papers.
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European equity markets rose to fresh six-year highs on Tuesday, with Italy's Capitalia leading banks higher after Spain's Santander was reported to be poised to raise its stake to around 5 per cent.
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WHAT HAPPENED: An Italian court clears Premier Silvio Berlusconi of allegedly bribing judges to influence the sale of state food conglomerate SME in the 1980s. The statute of limitations expired on a separate charge he kept a different judge on his payroll in case of criminal charges against his businesses.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi won a confidence vote in the lower house of parliament as expected on Wednesday, but faces a much more difficult task in the Senate, where he no longer has a majority.
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A Los Angeles judge on Thursday extended a previous order granting Britney Spears' father broad control of the troubled singer's financial and business affairs.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi's embattled centre-left government on Wednesday won a vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies by 326 to 275, speaker Fausto Bertinotti announced.
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Measure would expand Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's oversight of eavesdropping.
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China increases its hold over the media with new rules on how courts release information, state media says.
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Italy's broadcasting system, dominated by  Mediaset and state-owned RAI, breaks EU rules because it fails  to foster competition, Europe's top court has found.