Rome Informer

Beyond Rome and Florence: 12 alternative Italian destinations (CNN) — Tired of Rome? Done Milan? Kids start crying whenever you suggest another EM Forster tour of Florence? Italy's big cities are no doubt worthy and its popular regions are popular for good reason. But some of the country's lesser known towns and … Read more [...]

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Unseen Rome : Italian capital to bare its soul with an Open House weekend And this weekend (May 4-5), Rome will be the latest city to throw open its doors for an 'Open House' celebration. The Italian capital ventured into these self-revelatory waters for the first time last year – and will repeat the experience [...]

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Choppergate: Govt wrote to Rome 6 times, summoned Italian envoy Italy may have blown open Choppergate just last week but it is now evident that the Indian government smelt a rat around the deal months ago, culminating in South Block summoning the Italian ambassador as early as November last year. Government … Read more on [...]

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News Article Panetta Travels to Rome to Meet With Italian Leaders ROME, Jan. 15, 2013 – Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta arrived here today on the third leg of his tour of European capitals. “I guess it goes without saying that it has a lot of tremendous personal meaning for me, since I'm the son [...]

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Italian tax police target Bulgari luxury jewellers in Rome after newspaper … Italian police have carried out checks at Rome jeweller Bulgari to assess whether the group owned by French luxury conglomerate LVMH regularly declared income tax in Italy, a newspaper reported. Italian authorities have intensified their efforts to … Read more on Daily Mail

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2013 Italian Political Elections Could Spark Changes at Rome Film Fest (Report) ROME – The International Rome Film Festival could be in for some administrative changes, according to an article in Friday's Corriere della Sera, which also reported the event ended its seventh edition €690,000 ($ 911,000) in the red. our editor … Read more [...]

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Italian erotic film wins prizes in Rome amid boos ROME – Italian erotic film “And They Call it Summer,” which was booed during its screening at the Rome Film Festival, scooped up two prizes at the awards ceremony on Saturday to catcalls from the audience. Italy's Paolo Franchi won the best director … Read more [...]

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Italian consumer associations launch Apple guarantee lawsuit Rome-based Federconsumatori and the Center for the Protection of Consumers and Users (CTCU), based in the northeastern city of Bolzano, announced the action in a joint statement Tuesday. The groups cited a €900,000 (US$ 1.16 million) fine imposed on … Read more on Macworld

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IKEA joins queue to cut Italian red tape IKEA AB's plan to open a third store in Rome have been wrapped up in red tape for seven years with the Swedish furniture multinational joining a queue of willing investors beginning to lose patience with Italian bureaucracy. IKEA is the latest in a … Read more [...]

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'Raccomandazione' can count for more for Italian job seekers ROME — Maria Adele Carrai has two master's degrees from Italian universities in economics and Asian languages, and now is earning her Ph.D. in international law in Hong Kong. Her linguistic credentials are formidable: Besides native Italian, she has … Read more on Washington Times

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Italian police report 'Catch Me If You Can' ruse ROME — Italian police describe it as a real-life sequel to ''Catch Me If You Can," the hit movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the true story about an ingenious con artist masquerading as a commercial airline pilot. An unemployed 32-year-old Italian … Read more on SunHerald.com

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TechCrunch Italy – Join Us In Rome On Thursday For An Italian CrunchUp I don't know all the reasons why just yet (we'll leave the economists to speculate perhaps), but a simple CrunchUp planned for Rome this week has since become TechCrunch Italy. So, ok, we'll just go with that. My friends at Populis and [...]

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After Rome, Italian DJ set to be first for iPhone 5 in Paris PARIS — An Italian DJ was top of the queue to buy an iPhone 5 at an Apple store in Paris Thursday, hoping to score a rare double after being the first to snap up the iPhone 4 at its 2010 release [...]

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Italian unions press Glencore on Alcoa's Sardinia plant ROME (Reuters) – Italian unions urged Swiss-based commodities and mining group Glencore (GLEN.L) to declare whether it is really interested in saving Alcoa's (AA.N) loss-making aluminum plant in Sardinia. Last week Glencore showed interest in taking … Read more on Reuters

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Italian food and Mario Lanza When in Rome, set in the 1950s, follows the adventures of Serafina, who early in the book encounters the opera great and his family; it's an incident that alters the course of her destiny. Speaking to me by phone from her home in Auckland, Pellegrino … Read more on Stuff.co.nz [...]

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