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According to Telefono Rosa the national voluntary helpline for crimes against women the number of reported cases of sexual violence to its central telephone line in 2005 tripled compared to figures in 2004.
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Pope Benedict XVI is expected to call his first consistory, a meeting of all cardinals, on 24 and 25 March, during which he is likely to create a number of new cardinals. At present there are a total of 178 but only 110...
According to statistics published by Istat, the national Italian statistics agency, and INPS, the national social security institute, there were 16.5 million people receiving a pension in Italy in 2004, a 1.2 per cent in...
The Italian authority responsible for over-seeing fair play on the television during the current election campaign has fined Rete4, a commercial TV channel belonging to the Berlusconi family- owned company Mediaset, 150...
The BBC World Service programme Newshour is being broadcast across the city of Rome and its province every evening 22.00-23.00. A number of BBC news and current affairs programmes in English can be heard by tuning into t...
The dress rehearsal of the 20th winter Olympics opening ceremony is set to get underway in Turin on 8 February amid heightened concerns over security. Around 3,000 volunteers and 250 staff, including 100 dancers and acro...
A Roman Catholic priest from Lazio was murdered outside his church in the Black Sea port of Trabzon in Turkey on Sunday 5 Febuary. Father Andrea Santoro is thought to have been shot by a teenage boy seen fleeing from the...
More and more Italians are making online purchases according to a report on communications services in Italy 2001-2005 conducted by the Censis research institute and the Unione cattolica stampa italiana. Of Italys 18 mil...
Ticket sales for the winter Olympics in Turin had reached over 690,000 by 31 January. The figure falls far short of the initial 830,000 target, although the organising committee claim that the tickets sold amount to arou...
The cost of local services can be a lottery, according to CittadinanzAttiva, Italys Active Citizenship network. A recent study points out discrepancies of up to 150 for services such as health and transport between citie...
A new law is set to blur the distinction between soft and hard drugs in Italy, with steeper fines and prison terms for dealers in particular. The new measures were approved by the Italian senate at the end of Jnuary and...
Rome has a higher percentage of people working night shifts than the rest of the country, according to research by national statistics institute Istat. Over 12 per cent of employees or 130,000 people start work after 2...
Celebrations are underway in Rome for the 500th anniversary of the Vatican army, known as the Swiss Guard. The anniversary celebrations will continue for six months with an art exhibition in the colonnade of St Peters sq...
Anti-semitic banners were unfurled at Romes Olympic stadium on 29 Sunday January when the Roma football team played at home against Livorno. Less than 48 hours after the day of remembrance for the victims of the holocaus...
Chinese New Year in 2006 falls on 29 January and marks the start of the Year of the Dog. Celebrations in Rome include a traditional dragon dance in Piazza Vittorio on Saturday 4 February and a private performance of trad...
The government has approved a special measure, valid until the end of February, to reduce heating in offices, shops, factories and homes from 20 to 19 degrees. The times that heating may be turned on during the day, whic...
Two-wheeled railway police.
Seventy two electric scooters for the police have been introduced at 52 railway stations across Italy, including Stazione Termini in Rome. The idea is to make policing quicker and more versat...
Pope Benedict XVI has issued his first encyclical, entitled Deus Caritas Est, in which he discusses the nature of love and charity. In the letter to the Catholic Church the pope tackles the connection between eros, or ph...
The Italian prime minister and media tycoon, Silvio Berlusconi, was seen on most major television channels, on talk shows and even on the traffic news, for a total of three hours and six minutes during a 15-day period in...
Christian churches and communities of all denominations in Rome are taking part in a week of prayer for Christian unity among Christians. Pope Benedict XVI has stressed the need for all those who had been baptised to ref...
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