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Local officials behind a bid to include the Dolomite mountain range in UNESCO’s World Heritage List believe the United Nations’ cultural and natural heritage body will be favourably impressed by conservation practices in Italy’s northern regions. Local officials behind a bid to include the Dolomite mountain range in UNESCO’s World Heritage List believe the United Nations’ cultural and natural heritage body will be favourably impressed by conservation practices in Italy’s northern regions.

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Dolomites-Unesco: friuli, nomination process useful challenge

Fiat has decided to let its offer for German automaker Opel stand unchanged and will not attend further talks with German government officials.

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Fiat lets Opel offer stand

Italy’s year-on-year inflation rate fell to 0.9% this month, its lowest since November 1968, when it was 0.7%, national statistics bureau Istat reported on Friday.

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Inflation in May lowest since 1968

While Italy is famed many culinary delights, for cheese lovers, Italy’s cheese repertoire is particularly mouth watering. There is even an Italian cheese encyclopaedia which contains details of around 700 varieties of the stuff.  That’s enough to keep even the biggest cheese fans chomping for quite some time, I would imagine

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Big and Wormy Italian Cheese

An Italian soldier was slightly injured in Afghansitan on Friday when his patrol came under attack in the area of Bala Morgab, defense ministry sources said. An Italian soldier was slightly injured in Afghansitan on Friday when his patrol came under attack in the area of Bala Morgab, defense ministry sources said. The paratrooper from the Folgore Brigade suffered an injury to his foot and his injury was said not to be serious

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Italian soldier injured in Afghanistan

More than 500 people had to be evacuated by life boat from a Naples-Palermo ferry on Friday after a fire broke out in the ship’s car deck as they slept. More than 500 people had to be evacuated by life boat from a Naples-Palermo ferry on Friday after a fire broke out in the ship’s car deck as they slept.

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Fire breaks out on passenger ferry

It’s a lovely place, is Italy, but how well do you know it? In this new just for fun, quasi-quiz, I’m going to publish photographs of Italy which I have found lurking on the internet, and ask you if you know where the place in the photograph is. Here goes with the first image.  You have until next Friday to leave a comment saying where you think it is.  And I’d like the exact location, not simply the region of Italy, please

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Guess Where in Italy? Part 1

Workmen inside Florence’s courthouse have stumbled across a spiral column and hundreds of multicoloured fragments that experts believe may have belonged to a Roman temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis. Workmen inside Florence’s courthouse have stumbled across a spiral column and hundreds of multicoloured fragments that experts believe may have belonged to a Roman temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis.

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Remains of Temple of Isis found in Florence courthouse

Houses for 3,000 people left homeless by the April 6 earthquake in the Abruzzo capital of L’Aquila and surrounding villages will be ready by mid September, Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday. Houses for 3,000 people left homeless by the April 6 earthquake in the Abruzzo capital of L’Aquila and surrounding villages will be ready by mid September, Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday

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Thanks to the strong ties it has with both countries, Italy is in a position to help stabilise relations between Russia and Georgia, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said on Thursday. Thanks to the strong ties it has with both countries, Italy is in a position to help stabilise relations between Russia and Georgia, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said on Thursday

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Italy can play stabilising role between Russia and Georgia