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Rodi Garganico (Italy), Jan 26 – Italian police have sealed off an illegal archaeological dig and recovered 108 stolen artefacts dating back more than 2,000 years.

Verona (Italy), Jan 12 – Giorgio Perlasca was an Italian hero who saved the lives of thousands of Jews in Hungary during World War II. But few of his countrymen had ever heard of him when he died in 1992.

Rome, Dec 30 – Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli’s latest album has sold more than five million copies around the world since its release last month.

Nouakchott/Rome, Dec 29 – Italy’s Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said Monday he will travel to Mauritania where Al Qaeda’s North African branch has claimed to have kidnapped an Italian couple.

Rome, Dec 22 – Italian actress Sophia Loren has said she “suffered greatly” over the vicious attack on Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in Milan.

Rome, Dec 16 – Massimo Tartaglia, the man held responsible for the attack on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Sunday may not have been operating on his own, a member of Berlusconi’s People of Freedom coalition has claimed.

Rome, Dec 16 – Italian car giant Fiat defied the economic downturn and recorded a dramatic increase in car sales across Europe in November.

Rome, Dec 15 – Italy’s Interior Minister Roberto Maroni has said that Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi could have been killed when he was attacked Sunday after a political rally in the northern city of Milan.

Rome, Dec 14 – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was bloodied and knocked to the ground by an attacker shortly after a political meeting in the Italian city of Milan on Sunday.

Palermo (Italy), Dec 9 – Users of the popular internet social networking site Facebook have urged Giovanni Nicchi, the Sicilian mafia fugitive boss captured at the weekend, to become an informant.