Tag: Italia

• Saturday, November 14th 2026 - 01:01 UTC

  Un exbrigadista italiano se descuelga de un quinto piso en Buenos Aires para evitar su extradición

  

  Leonardo Bertulazzi, a 74-year-old former member of Italy’s Red Brigades, escaped from house arrest in Buenos Aires on Tuesday by abseiling with a rope and harness from a fifth floor, after leaving his electronic ankle tag on a homemade device that simulated a human leg, to avoid imminent extradition to Italy. Argentine police on Friday arrested a Uruguayan man and a Salvadoran woman, identified as suspected accomplices, as they were about to cross into Uruguay.

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• Monday, December 16th 2024 - 10:30 UTC

  Milei: “Taxes are theft”

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei said this weekend in an interview with the Italian TV Quarta Repubblica to be aired Monday that taxes “are theft.” The South American leader also insisted that “public spending cuts are not an unpopular measure.” Milei spent the weekend in Rome where he had a meeting with Prime Minister Georgia Meloni and participated in other business and political engagements.

• Tuesday, November 9th 2021 - 20:50 UTC

  Italian pharmaceuticals to be produced in Chile with Bill Gates grant

  

  The Bill Gates Foundation has allocated a grant to Italian company ReiThera Srl to produce Chile vaccines against COVID-19, it was announced.

• Monday, January 14th 2019 - 08:45 UTC

  Italian political militant at large for years extradited from Bolivia/Brazil to Rome

  

  An Italian former communist militant captured in Bolivia is on a plane back to Rome, officials have confirmed. Cesare Battisti, 64, is wanted for four murders in Italy during the 1970s, which he denies committing. He was extradited after being found in Santa Cruz de La Sierra in an international police operation.

• Monday, February 19th 2018 - 09:09 UTC

  Italian election with no clear winner: Berlusconi's coalition ahead with 37.2% support

  

  The coalition, which includes former prime minister’s Forza Italia (Go Italy) Silvio Berlusconi and two far-right parties, is being seen within the context of Europe’s lurch away from conventional parties ahead of the March 4 vote.

• Wednesday, May 24th 2017 - 09:50 UTC

  Manchester terrorist with ISIS “proven links” in Libya and Syria; UK threat level at its highest; 3.800 troops on patrol

  

  The man British police say blew himself up as a packed concert was letting out in Manchester, England Monday night is believed to have traveled to Syria and had “proven” links with ISIS. France's interior minister Gerard Collomb said Wednesday that British and French intelligence have information that Salman Abedi, 22, had been to Syria, although it is unclear if he was part of a larger network of attackers.

• Friday, February 19th 2016 - 04:35 UTC

  Macri and Renzi vow to promote bilateral trade and Italian investments in Argentina

  

  President Mauricio Macri and visiting Italian premier Matteo Renzi vowed to “re-launch bilateral relations”, and emphasized the Italian interest in participating in energy, transport, gas and technology projects in the country which has become home to one of the largest Italian migrations.

• Saturday, January 21st 2012 - 05:36 UTC

  Italian cabinet approves legislation to deregulate services and professions

  

  Italy's cabinet on Friday approved legislation to deregulate service sectors and professions in an effort to increase competition, cut costs to consumers and boost chronically weak growth in the Euro zone's third largest economy.

• Saturday, November 12th 2011 - 11:17 UTC

  Putin running for president praises Berlusconi 17-year tenure as a “stability factor”

  

  Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin praised outgoing fellow political veteran Silvio Berlusconi and defended his own decision to remain in power for years to come in front of an audience of foreign experts.

• Thursday, June 2nd 2011 - 09:02 UTC

  CFK invites Italian businesses to invest in Argentina; announces “new phase in relations”

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner invited Italian business-people to invest in Argentina underlining the close links between the two countries and the fact her visit was the re-launching of normal relations after a decade.