News Archive for December 2016
Here you can find articles published in December 2016. Return to full archive here-
01 December
- Seven events in Italy to brighten up your December
- Norway frees radical Islamist as Italy ends extradition bid
- How economic troubles will shape Italy's referendum
- The farmers, their little pigs and the wolves: an Italy quake survival tale
- Italy police nab mafia fugitive known as 'The Dancer'
- These are the most popular Italian baby names
- Firefighters uncover mystery human skulls in Italy quake rubble
- Italian wins Bad Sex in Fiction Award for 'dancing genitals'
- EU calls on member states to provide coastguard officers
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02 December
- 'How I fell in love with Naples, a city full of contrasts'
- Italy's referendum: Seven key questions and answers
- Schools closed after dramatic fire at Italian oil refinery
- What is Italy's Five Star Movement?
- Residents protest post-earthquake rent hikes in central Italy
- Will Renzi be next casualty of 2016's populist wave?
- Rivalry in Rome ahead of derby day football clash
- Rome bans gladiators and rickshaws (again)
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05 December
- Euro hit by fears of uncertainty after Italian referendum
- Italian referendum: What happens now?
- Two dead as over 700 migrants rescued in Mediterranean
- How Matteo Renzi fell as swiftly as he rose
- No, Italy's referendum is not the same as Trump or Brexit
- Eurosceptics delight as defeated Renzi quits
- Italy vote won't trigger new euro crisis, ministers insist
- Why Italy said 'no' to Renzi's reforms
- Kremlin praises Italy's Renzi for boosting bilateral ties
- IN PICTURES: The defining moments of Renzi's time as PM
- Six questions (and answers) after the Italian referendum
- Populists celebrate 'people's victory' as Renzi packs his bags
- Renzi to resign once Italy's budget is passed
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06 December
- Coastguard: 1,300 migrants rescued, 16 found dead
- Bertolucci responds to Last Tango rape row
- Italian banks on edge as Renzi resigns
- 2,000-year-old teeth show malaria existed in Roman Empire
- Half of southern Italians at risk of poverty: report
- 'Queen Nefertari's legs' found in northern Italy
- Battle over early elections grips Italy in limbo
- Italy to hold hearing on electoral law in January
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07 December
- Italy's senate to vote on 2017 budget on Wednesday
- Obama has called Renzi to thank him for 'close partnership'
- The winners and losers of Italy's referendum
- Venetians call for recognition as a 'minority'
- Italians study more than their peers but do worse at school: OECD
- Skydiving Santa brings joy to kids in earthquake town
- Renzi calls it quits: What next for Italy?
- Original Madame Butterfly opens in Milan, 112 years later
- Italian Senate approves budget, paving the way for new PM
- Italy's Renzi to resign on Wednesday evening
- Egypt police quizzed as part of Regeni probe
- Renzi resigns, hinting at early elections
- Start spreading the news: We haven't seen the last of Matteo Renzi
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08 December
- Pope compares scandal-seeking media to lovers of excrement
- How Renzi's flying start slowed to a limp
- Italy asks for more time to save world's oldest bank
- Supporters of 'gay culture' can't become priests: Pope
- Moody's downgrades Italy outlook following referendum
- Hitler's Mein Kampf a surprise entry in Italian schoolkids' top books list
- From PM to PlayStation: Renzi retreats to plot comeback
- Waiting in the wings: Who will replace Renzi?
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09 December
- IMF tells Italy to push on with economic reform
- Italian tourist killed in Rio after GPS misdirection
- Italy's president starts quest to form new government
- 4.0 magnitude earthquake felt in northern Italy
- Watch the adorable Italian Christmas advert made by Harry Potter director
- ECB denies world's oldest bank more time to raise funds
- 'Italians are often pessimistic, and some of the stereotypes are true'
- Rome blocks cars and scooters as Italy's major cities fight smog
- IN PICTURES: Italy lights up for Christmas
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12 December
- No government bailout for Italy's troubled BMPS
- Six dead in new Med migrant tragedy
- What makes an Italian Christmas?
- Paolo Gentiloni: who is Italy's new prime minister?
- Eni sells a third of 'supergiant' field to Russia's Rosneft
- Traffic blocks in place as smog engulfs Italy
- Here's what you need to know about Italy's banking crisis
- Italy's new PM Gentiloni races to form new cabinet
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13 December
- Ten crazy Christmas decorations you'd only find in Italy
- Meet the key figures in Italy's new government
- Italy 'optimistic' as new cabinet sworn in
- Verdict expected in deadly shipwreck trial
- UniCredit to slash jobs and seek €13bn from investors
- Italy's new PM 'ready' to intervene to save ailing banks
- Italy court jails migrant shipwreck captain for 18 years
- How to wish Pope Francis a happy 80th birthday
- Italy PM: Events in Syria will define EU-Russia relations
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14 December
- Lost Da Vinci sketch 'worth €15 million' found in France
- From dildo to quarantine: 10 English words you didn't realize were stolen from Italian
- Conservatives name Italian as candidate to head EU Parliament
- Is Rome's Christmas tree really the ugliest in the world?
- Italians overestimate country's Muslim population by 500 percent
- Migrant boat 'tomb' could go on show at Milan's cathedral
- Here's what Italians Googled most in 2016
- Italy to fire the starting pistol on election campaign
- Italian doctors transplant kidney for spleen in world first
- Italy parliament approves new government
- Why advertising on The Local really paid off for this startup
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15 December
- Ten Italian ski resorts that winter sports-lovers have to visit
- EU chief: Italy's banking problems can be solved
- Rome's ugly Christmas tree gets makeover after hundreds complained
- Venice just got its first electric waterbus
- 'Anti-vegan' Christmas cake ad provokes outcry in Italy
- Soon, married Italians might not have to promise to be faithful
- Italy's troubled BMPS bank launches fresh bid to meet funds
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16 December
- The twelve best Italian Christmas gifts to give this year
- Berlusconi trial sought over bunga bunga bribes
- Pope Francis hits 80, and he's not slowing down
- US fines Italian bank $235 million for laundering violations
- BMPS eyes small savers' help to save Italy's oldest bank
- Rome Five Star Movement mayor apologizes after aide's arrest
- Travel: The top ten festive spots to visit in Rome
- 'Snack-dealing' schoolboy given suspension... and a scholarship
- 17 December
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19 December
- How to survive an Italian Christmas party
- Italy's Renzi admits referendum mistakes
- Rome's Five Star Movement mayor stripped of power to make 'important choices'
- How Italy's tireless coastguard responded to busiest ever migrant year
- Italy's first female jihadist sentenced to nine years
- Snow in northern Italy... but will it be a white Christmas?
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20 December
- How to celebrate Christmas like the Italians
- Italy PM prepares €20 billion fund for ailing banks
- Italy on high alert after Berlin Christmas market 'attack'
- One Italian feared dead, two injured in Berlin Christmas market attack
- Fourteen prison officers investigated over knotted bedsheets escape
- Italy nabs suspected allies of fugitive mafia boss
- Milan mayor back at work after self-suspension over corruption probe
- Man dead after falling from Milan cathedral terrace
- 21 December
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22 December
- Nine quirky Christmas nativity scenes you can see in Italy
- Seven dead in new migrant boat tragedies: Italy
- Berlin attack suspect 'spent four years in Italian jail'
- Turin smog puts half of children at health risk: study
- Italy court gives American woman's killer 30 years
- Pope: Give women, lay people top Vatican jobs
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23 December
- Bailout looms for Italy's ailing BMPS bank
- Opinion: The Christmas presents I'd give to Italy
- This is how much Italians are spending on Christmas
- What we know about fatal shooting of Berlin attack suspect in Milan
- Italy hails rookie cop who shot dead Europe's most wanted man
- Year in review: Ten events that shaped Italy in 2016
- Relief, but recognition of failings after Berlin attack suspect shot dead in Italy
- Christmas cheer for savers: Italy will bail out BMPS
- Life goes on: Christmas in Italy's earthquake hit towns
- 24 December
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27 December
- CCTV 'shows Berlin attacker fleeing through France'
- Stricken Italian bank says ECB wants it to get €8.8bn bailout
- Italian priest sparks scandal after inviting public to mass for slain Canada mafia boss
- Italian Berlin attack victim buried in hometown
- Berlin attack suspect caught on camera at Milan station
- 28 December
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29 December
- Priest says he'll 'appeal to pope' over banned mass for mafia boss
- Another 900 migrants rescued in Med: Italian coastguard
- French police intercept 45 African migrants from Italy
- Three Germans killed in Italian Riviera yacht blaze
- Meet the Italian making wine underground
- Court quashes 'killjoy' Rome mayor's NYE firework ban
- Deported Tunisian man 'planned Italy attack'
- 30 December
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