Italy’s state forestry corps and the customs agency seized 20,000 bottles of fake wine and grappa ready for market distribution from a Florence-area warehouse.
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Renzi, Obama agree on growth, TTIP, Expo2015
Italy are looking to the US for lessons on growth, Premier Matteo Renzi said after talks with President Barack Obama at the White House Friday April 17, 2015.
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#Expo2015 in Florence: a recap of the events
A House of Excellence, a multimedia dome, dinners prepared by starred chefs in evocative historic refectories and itineraries for valorizing bread: this, in short, is what the Work’nFlorence events are all about – and they are all located in the heart of Florence, under the patronage of Expo 2015.
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Bionic legs created by Italian project
Italian researchers have developed a bionic fingertip that is able to recognise texture, pressure, hardness, curvature and other information deriving from touch.
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Pope Francis announces extraordinary Holy Year
Pope marks second anniversary by announcing Holy Year. Francis chooses theme of divine mercy, tens of millions expected.
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«Say it in Italian» petition gets 70,000 signatures
A petition urging the nation to say it in Italian and spurn the use of English words creeping into everyday speech has obtained nearly 70,000 signatures, organisers claimed.
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#Expo2015 train station inaugurated in Milan
An official Milan Expo 2015 train station was inaugurated in a ceremony on Friday March, 6, 2015.
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Three dead as storms batter Tuscany, Italy
Torrential rain and high winds lashed Italy Thursday killing three people.
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45,000 culture sites at risk from floods, landslides
In Italy 14,000 cultural heritage sites are at risk of landslides and 28,483 at risk from flooding, a study said.
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#Italy, the Extraordinary Commonplace (VIDEO)
Italy is making waves by turning stereotypes on their head — and selling the world its more serious side.
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