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ITALIANS FIND ENIGMA CRYPTOLOGIST SHIPWRECK
(ANSA) - Milan, May 9 - A team of Italian divers claims
to have discovered the wreck of the Amoriciere, a French
passenger ship that sank in 1942 taking with it one of the
Polish decryptors of Germany's Enigma code.
The Italian divers, who are also staff members on the
diving magazine ... > Full news story |
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RIINA TO REMAIN UNDER HIGH SECURITY INCARCERATION
(ANSA) - Rome, May 7 - Ailing Cosa Nostra superboss
Salvatore (Toto') Riina must remain under a high security
prison regime because he is still dangerous, Italy's supreme
court said on Wednesday.
The Court of Cassation added that all his requests to be
granted house arrest or to be plac... > Full news story |

COURT REJECTS APPEAL BY 'BEASTS OF SATAN'
(ANSA) - Rome, May 6 - Italy's highest appeals court has
kicked out an appeal by five Satanists who murdered three
people and attempted to kill two others near Varese in
northern Italy between 1998 and 2004.
Ruling that the so-called 'Beasts of Satan' must serve
out their sentences, th... > Full news story |

WAKE HELD FOR DEAD ITALIAN BEAR
(ANSA) - Rome, May 6 - Animal rights campaigners wearing
black and carrying funeral candles held a wake outside the
Swiss Embassy in Rome on Tuesday for an Italian brown bear
who was shot dead in Switzerland last month.
The campaigners brought six stones bearing engravings of
the bear,... > Full news story |

ITALY TOPS FOR KIDS, NOT FOR MOMS
(ANSA) - Rome, May 6 - Italy is the best place in the
world to be for children but not for their mothers, according
to the 2008 Mother's Day Report Card put out by the Save the
Children charity organization.
The annual ranking evaluates 146 countries to determine
which are best for not... > Full news story |

SKINHEAD ATTACK SPARKS CONCERNS
(ANSA) - Verona, May 5 - Italian politicians on Monday
were at odds over a neo-Fascist attack in the centre of
Verona that some claimed marked a worrying level of political
violence.
Nicola Tommasoli, a 29-year-old industrial designer, has
been in a coma since the evening of May 1 whe... > Full news story |

MOTHERHOOD WORRIES FOR ITALIAN WOMEN
(ANSA) - Rome, May 5 - Almost 40% of Italian mothers
believe that having children is a daily struggle, according
to a new report by the Doxa research institute on Monday.
Busting the stereotype of the Mediterranean mother who
believes having children is the most important experience of
... > Full news story |

ITALY NEEDS MORE ORGAN DONORS
(ANSA) - Rome, May 5 - Some 9,500 people will need organ
transplants in Italy this year but just over 3,000 will
receive organs due to a lack of donors, according to data
from the National Transplant Center (CNT).
''We need more donors and for this reason it is very
important that nati... > Full news story |
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