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- Italy Passes Law To Fingerprint All Roma : Indybay
  Posted by Kaerast from IndyMedia SF
  In their election campaign earlier this year, Berlusconi and his allies had already made clear their intention of deporting tens of thousands of Roma back to Romania and former Yugoslavia. In mid-June a March decisions by Italy's highest appeal court was released stating that "it is acceptable to discriminate against Roma" because the court found that "they are thieves". Following the release of the court rulling, Italian Interior Minister Roberto Maroni, announced that a file is to be drawn up containing a DNA data base with digital fingerprints and photos of all Roma irregardless of their citizenship. Unicef has protested that this is discriminatory and a violation of the UN's Declaration of the Rights of the Child.
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- House of Augustus opens to public
  Posted by newshogg from BBC News
  They say Rome wasn't built in a day - well the house of Augustus took 50 years to restore, at least in part.
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- As Earth Warms Up, Tropical Virus Moves to Italy
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  After a month of investigation, Italian public health officials discovered that the people of Castiglione di Cervia were, in fact, suffering from a tropical disease, chikungunya, a relative of dengue fever normally found in the Indian Ocean region. But the immigrants spreading the disease were not humans but insects: tiger mosquitoes, who can thrive in a warming Europe.
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- Italy slowly reopens doors to nuclear power
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  Several Italian members of parliament from different sides of the political spectrum are now speaking in favour of nuclear energy, including representatives of the former Communist Party and Chicco Testa, one of the most vocal promoters of the 1987 phase-out referendum.
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- Mussolini home Jewish graves opened
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  The Jewish catacombs under Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini's Rome villa are being restored and readied for visitors. "It's going to take several months to prepare the site and make it safe," said the head of Italy's Jewish Cultural Heritage Foundation, Bruno Orvieto.
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- All roads led to Rome for the world’s biggest family reunion
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  Since more than 300,000 pilgrims from all over the world were expected to attend the 2002 canonization of Blessed Josemaría Escrivá in Rome, I did not expect to see anyone I knew there. The crowds would be just too big to find anyone, and my plan was to stick close to my family members and try not to get lost in the maze of streets. So imagine my surprise and delight as we encountered an astonishing number of friends from the Philippines, friends we hadn't seen in years.
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- How Bogus Letter Became a Case for War
  Posted by Jeff from Washington Post
  Burba, who had no special expertise in Africa or nuclear technology, was able to quickly unravel the fraud. Yet the claims clung to life within the Bush administration for months, eventually finding their way into the State of the Union address.
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garrettmoon comments on:
Italy Passes Law To Fingerprint All Roma : Indybay

Wow. That is utterly surprising. The court found that "they are thieves"?

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10:03 am 7/20/08
Battygurl comments on:
Italy Passes Law To Fingerprint All Roma : Indybay

I guess they passed the law

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12:13 am 7/20/08
vickyvan comments on:
Italy Passes Law To Fingerprint All Roma : Indybay
Can they do this?
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8:28 am 7/18/08
Damianmann comments on:
Italian Leader Calls Iraq Occupation 'Grave Error'
send pics damianmann@yahoo.com or set up a travel blog we can access
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4:07 pm 5/18/06
Jeff comments on:
Italian Leader Calls Iraq Occupation 'Grave Error'
What a great time to go. Berlusconi is out and Italy is out of Iraq.
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3:48 pm 5/18/06

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