News Archive for January 2017
Here you can find articles published in January 2017. Return to full archive here- 01 January
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03 January
- Pope Francis urges bishops for 'zero tolerance' on sex abuse
- The Moleskine phenomenon: How an enduring love of pen and paper spelt success
- How an Italian fashion tycoon found work-life balance through philosophy
- McDonald's opens by the Vatican despite protests
- How to make the most of Italy's public holidays in 2017
- 04 January
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05 January
- Tragic end for migrants who thought they'd reached Italy
- 'Sicilian Stonehenge' discovered by amateur archaeologists
- 'Heroic' French farmer faces jail for helping migrants across Italian border
- Brrr! Italy's in for a freezing, snowy long weekend
- Italian region mulls introducing four-day working week
- Pope to quake victims: Rebuild hearts as well as homes
- Terrorism in Italy: Low threat level, but a rise in radicalization
- 06 January
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09 January
- Italy's Five Star Movement leader urges split from UKIP in European Parliament
- After a weekend of snow chaos, more winter weather on the way for Italy
- Eight dead after freezing weekend in Italy
- Italy's Five Star Movement votes to leave Eurosceptics for Euro liberals
- Five-Star flop: Euro liberals say no to Grillo
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10 January
- Italy reopens its embassy in Libya
- Italian hospital chief suspended after photos show patients treated on the floor
- Italy's anti-terror police arrest 'prison jihadist recruiter'
- Nigeria's ex-president named in Italian oil 'kickback' probe
- Teen removed from mother's custody for being 'too effeminate'
- Meredith Kercher murder case: Italy blocks new review
- London-based Italians arrested for cyber-spying on top politicians
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11 January
- Pope to host Palestinian president Abbas this weekend
- Italy's imams to get training on the Constitution
- Italian PM undergoes emergency surgery on blood vessel
- 'Bunga bunga' bribes trial on hold, Berlusconi ruling nears
- Pope criticizes women who have abortions 'to save their looks'
- Italy court blocks challenge to flagship Renzi reform
- A same-sex marriage ceremony in... Renaissance Rome?
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12 January
- Sicilian church becomes a synagogue on the anniversary of the region expelling Jews
- Italy's PM says he's 'well' after blood vessel surgery
- Cappucc, cats and the Colosseum: The reasons I love living in Rome
- Controversial Vatican McDonald's to give free meals to the homeless
- Trump pledge sinks Italian pharma firms' stocks
- 'Ten days of snow and ice' on the way for Italy
- UniCredit shareholders vote to raise $14billion
- 13 January
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17 January
- Italy 'in talks' with EU over budget deficit
- Italy sends in the army to assist Italians trapped by snow
- Why women will march in Rome on Saturday
- 180 dead in Saturday's migrant boat disaster in Med: survivors
- Dad jailed for leaving toddler in freezing car to go gambling
- Former Berlusconi spokesman poised to lead EU Parliament
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18 January
- Italy's Tajani elected head of EU Parliament
- Police seize luxury villas and cars from ex-mafia boss 'Angel Face'
- Condom row between pope and Knights of Malta intensifies
- Italian eyeglass-maker who frames his own success
- AS IT HAPPENED: Central Italy reels from four strong earthquakes
- 'Europe's problem is Europe', says Italian Finance Minister
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19 January
- How Italy plans to fight back against monument vandals
- Archaeologists just discovered a medieval horse's head at the Colosseum
- AS IT HAPPENED: Three bodies recovered, more feared dead at avalanche-struck hotel
- Archaeologists just found a medieval horse's head at the Colossseum
- In pictures: Central Italy's Montereale reels from four major quakes
- Scientist says Ötzi's last meal was Stone Age cured meat
- Deadly quake nightmare returns to haunt Italy
- Somali migrant faces murder, torture charges in Italy
- 'Everything we have is here, but we can't stand any more quakes'
- Cascading earthquakes: why central Italy is being shaken by so much seismic activity
- Italy strengthens ties with Tunisia after Berlin attack
- Prospects for rescue look bleak at avalanche-struck hotel
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20 January
- 'No sign of life' as rescuers race to find avalanche survivors
- Italy is sending these Van Gogh masterpieces home, 14 years after a mafia boss stole them
- Memories of Italy's mountain paradise hotel before the avalanche
- The student who lifted the lid on modern slavery in Italy
- AS IT HAPPENED: Rescuers race to pull survivors from avalanche rubble
- Survivors pulled from rubble in miracle avalanche rescue
- Hotel dogs reunited with puppies after miracle avalanche escape
- 21 January
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23 January
- Italy to send experts to Egypt for Regeni murder case
- The best signs from the Women's March on Rome
- Rescuers describe 'apocalyptic scenes' at avalanche site
- Snow and singing: How avalanche survivors made it through 40 hours in hotel wreckage
- One dead as rain wreaks havoc in southern Italy
- Pleas for help from avalanche hotel were dismissed as a 'hoax'
- Italy hits back at Charlie Hebdo avalanche cartoon
- Pope criticizes mafia's 'blood-stained money', 'evil power'
- Three puppies rescued alive five days after avalanche
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24 January
- Six still missing at avalanche hotel as death toll rises to 23
- The Italian Sherlock Holmes: Eccentric policeman who cracked his cases in disguise
- Meet the adorable puppies who survived five days trapped under avalanche rubble
- Brexit: Supreme Court rules Theresa May can't trigger EU divorce alone
- In videos: How Italian rescuers reached avalanche survivors
- Six dead after helicopter crash near avalanche zone
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25 January
- Knights of Malta chief resigns on Pope's orders over condom row
- Rome's Five Star Movement mayor called in for questioning as part of corruption probe
- Avalanche rescuers mourn six colleagues who died in helicopter crash
- Why women need to keep marching in Italy
- All bodies have now been recovered from Italy's avalanche hotel
- Only two EU countries are more corrupt than Italy
- Earthquake survivors protest in Rome over delays in recovery
- Italy just got a step closer to holding elections
- 26 January
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27 January
- Giant tree sculptures go on show in Rome exhibition
- Stumble stones: How Rome's smallest monuments honour Holocaust victims
- Two arrested for sending poo-stained toilet paper to thousands of celebrities
- Why Italy wants Unesco heritage status for its Prosecco hills
- Venice to pay for funeral of migrant whose suicide was filmed by tourists
- 28 January
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30 January
- New quake in Amatrice hits 15th-century church
- 'What Trump is doing affects us all': Italy's politicians speak out against travel ban
- Italian police bust people-trafficking ring in Lombardy
- EU 'in no position to judge Trump's travel ban', says Italian FM
- Schoolchildren evacuated as more than 60 quakes shake Mount Etna
- 31 January