Italy

Italy PM urges war against mafia

23 May 2012

PALERMO, Italy: Italy needs to "fight without mercy against all mafias", Prime Minister Mario Monti said Wednesday in Sicily as thousands marked 20 years since the murder of top judge Giovanni Falcone.

Italy's President warns of return of 1970s-style violence

23 May 2012

ROME (Reuters) - Italy risks falling back into the kind of political violence that scarred the country during the 1970s, President Giorgio Napolitano said on Wednesday at a commemoration for anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone who was murdered 20 years ago. Speaking days after a deadly bomb attack on a school named after Falcone's wife, who died with him in a huge explosion set off by mafia ...

Main Parties in Italy Hear Alarm Bells After Vote

23 May 2012

The results of local runoff elections across Italy are being widely analyzed not as a measure of what Italians want, but what they no longer care for -- and turnout was low: 51.3 percent.