Posts Tagged ‘ Italy ’

Apologies to MCA: get better, man. Here’s a little story/I’d like to tell/about one Phyllis Nefler/you know so well/she rocks the W & C of Sunday’s NYT/And she’s about to kick/a little history… Along with 7 million others, I watched the video of the Minnesota couple and their bridal party white man shuffling down the...
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ROME (Reuters) – At least five people were injured and two arrested after clashes between left- and right-wing citizens’ patrols in Italy, reviving a controversy over government plans to use the patrols to back up security forces…. from WN.com – World News
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As of Sunday, July 26, 2009, at least 4,329 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes nine military civilians killed in action. At least 3,464 military personnel died as a result of hostile action, according...
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Reaction: Umberto Bossi wants Italian soldiers out of Afghanistan A key member of Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s cabinet today called for Italy’s soldiers to be withdrawn from Afghanistan. Mirroring the growing debate in the UK about the mission in Afghanistan, Reforms Minister Umberto Bossi said: ‘I’d bring them all home.’ He acknowledged Afghanistan was a...
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Page 1 of 2 4:00AM Monday Jul 27, 2009 By French Socialist Party leader Martine Aubry. Photo / AP The summer holidays hit their stride across Western Europe this week, and for left-wing leaders the vacation cannot come soon enough. Left-of-centre parties in government in Britain, Germany and Spain are battling a wave of...
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At the heart of David Farley’s quest is a question: What happened to the flesh removed during baby Jesus’ circumcision? Some believe it was preserved, and they consider it the Catholic Church’s most sacred relic — the only human remains left of "God’s son." Farley isn’t a theologian, but a travel writer whose articles...
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As of Saturday, July 25, 2009, at least 4,329 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes nine military civilians killed in action. At least 3,464 military personnel died as a result of hostile action, according...
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TEMPTING TUSCANY Summer’s here and the British middle classes are tripping off to Tuscany – a flock of dewy-eyed tourists going weak at the knees when they set eyes on a cypress tree. The obsession with Italy is a British disease. It afflicts women far worse than men. They have only to step off...
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