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5Nov

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Italy

US 'spied on future Pope Francis during Vatican conclave'

NOVANEWS NSA spied on the future Pope Francis before and during the Vatican conclave at which he was chosen to succeed Benedict XVI Pope Francis delivering a speech during a meeting of the world's cardinals Photo: AFP By Nick Squires, Rome The National Security Agency spied on the future Pope Francis before and during the Vatican conclave at which he was chosen to succeed Benedict XVI, it was claimed on Wednesday. The American spy agency monitored telephone calls made to and from the residence in Rome where the then Archbishop Jorge Mario Bergoglio stayed during the conclave, the secret election at which cardinals chose him as pontiff on March 13. The claims were made by Panorama, an Italian weekly news magazine, which said that the NSA monitored the telephone cal...

27Oct

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Italy, ZIO-NAZI

Pope Francis will not meet with Naziyahu

NOVANEWS Pope Francis met with the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during his recent visit to Rome A “diplomatic embarrassment” has arisen following the refusal of Pope Francis I to meet with Israel’s prime minister at short notice. Benjamin Netanyahu’s office had already announced that a meeting would take place during his visit to Italy, reported Haaretz, but the pope has no plans in this regard. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met the Pope during his recent visit to Rome where he received a pen as a gift, with the wish that he will use it to sign a peace agreement with Israel. According to Haaretz, the Vatican became aware of Netanyahu’s visit to Rome and his supposed meeting with Pope Francis through the media. “The Prime Minister’s Office worked hard to hold the meeting and...

22Oct

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Italy

254 Syrian, Egyptian migrants land in Italy

NOVANEWS A boatload of 254 Syrian and Egyptian migrants including 94 minors landed in Italy; they were rescued some 150 nautical miles southeast of Sicily A boatload of 254 Syrian and Egyptian migrants including 94 minors landed in Italy on Sunday after a perilous voyage through rough seas from Egypt that skirted Greece and Malta to reach Italy.The migrants were rescued some 150 nautical miles southeast of Sicily and were transferred onto three coast guard patrol boats that arrived in the port of Syracuse in the early hours of Sunday.They were on a badly overcrowded fishing boat that was taking on water amid rough weather conditions in the Mediterranean due to high winds, Italian media reported, citing coast guard officials. More than 500 African and Syrian asylum seekers are feared ...

22Oct

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Italy

Italian Parliament introduces holocaust denial legislation

NOVANEWS ROME, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Italian members of Parliament introduced an amendment to the country's criminal code that, if passed, would make holocaust denial a crime, officials said.The legislation was signed Tuesday by politicians across several parties, including the center-left Democratic Party, the center-right People of Freedom Party and the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, ANSA reported. ''It would be a significant response to all those episodes of revisionism, alas all too present in Italy and in Europe, that seek to distort history and memory," said Democratic Party Sen. Monica Cirinna. "Particularly on the eve of the tragic 70th anniversary of the Nazi raid on Rome's Jewish ghetto. On Oct. 16, 1943, more than 1,000 Roman Jews were deported to Auschwitz and Birkena...

16Sep

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Italy, Syria

Italy seizes 'mother ship' full of Syrian refugees fleeing civil war

NOVANEWS By Steve Scherer, Reuters ROME -- Italian authorities have seized a "mother ship" used to traffic illegal migrants across the Mediterranean and picked up about 200 Syrians fleeing the civil war in their homeland, officials said on Thursday. European Union and Italian patrol boats chased down the fishing boat with a crew of 15 that had been used to ferry the immigrants into international waters near the Sicilian coast, prosecutors and police said. The vessel's crew had already transferred the refugees into a smaller boat for the final leg of their voyage. Italian police boats collected 199 migrants, including 64 children, all of whom were Syrian. The fishing boat was towed back to the port of Catania in Sicily. The seizure of the mother ship was a result of an investigation into...

29Jul

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Italy, ZIO-NAZI

Italian doctor displays Holocaust-denying material in waiting room

NOVANEWS jta.org Italian authorities will investigate an anti-Semitic, Holocaust-denying doctor in northern Italy who keeps a bust of Hitler in his office and displays fascist propaganda in his waiting room. Jewish lawmaker Emanuele Fiano in a statement last week to the Italian Parliament called on Italy’s Interior and Health ministers to investigate whether the behavior of Dr. Gianantonio Valli, 64, is compatible with that of a national health physician. Fiano said Valli was “one of the principal theorists in our country of Holocaust denial, declared himself to be a ‘Nazi-inspired fascist,’ and publicly manifests xenophobic, racist and anti-Semitic ideas.” The daily La Repubblica quoted Valli – who has described himself as “completely fascist, that is, Nazi” – as saying “I see myself in...

13Jan

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Italy, United Kingdom

Benito Mussolini Was Once a British Agent

NOVANEWS A historian says Benito Mussolini was well paid as a British agent during World War I. The Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday that Peter Martland of Cambridge University discovered that Mussolini was paid 100 pounds a week by Britain in 1917 - equal to about 6,000 pounds ($9,600) today. The late Samuel Hoare, in charge of British agents in Rome at that time, revealed in his memoirs 55 years go that Mussolini was a paid agent. Martland found more details in Hoare's papers, including that Mussolini also sent Italian army veterans to beat up peace protesters in Milan, a dry run for his fascist blackshirt units. "The last thing Britain wanted were pro-peace strikes bringing the factories in Milan to a halt. It was a lot of money to pay a man who was a journalist at the time, but c...

28Dec

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Europe, Italy

Kneeling Hitler’ placed in Warsaw’s Jewish ghetto–Jews Outraged SURPRISE SURPRISE

NOVANEWS A new exhibition by an Italian artist, which includes a praying Adolf Hitler, has sparked outrage from Jewish groups worldwide jpost.com If you look through the bars of the locked gate at 14 Prozna Street in Poland’s capital, a place that was the center of the Jewish ghetto 70 years ago, you may spot a small statue of a figure kneeling in prayer. That figure is Adolf Hitler. “Amen,” a new exhibition by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, which includes the praying Hitler, has caused outrage among the Jewish community in Poland as well as among Jewish and Catholic organizations worldwide that regard the exhibit as extremely offensive. Cattelan, 52, an Italian-born sculptor living in New York, is known for his controversial work. One of the most famous is “La Nona Ora” (“The Ninth H...

9Dec

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Europe, France, Germany, Italy

Five EU countries call for new military 'structure

NOVANEWS Five leading EU countries, but not the UK, have said the Union needs a new military "structure" to manage overseas operations.The foreign and defense ministers of France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain issued the call in a joint communique after a meeting in Paris on Thursday (15 November).The paper says: "We are convinced that the EU must set up, within a framework yet to-be-defined, true civilian-military structures to plan and conduct missions and operations." It adds: "We should show preparedness to hold available, train, deploy and sustain in theatre the necessary civilian and military means."It lists a number of EU military priorities for the coming years: helping Somalia to fight Islamists and pirates; "a possible training mission to support the Malian armed forc...

26Oct

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Italy

Italy’s Berlusconi sentenced to jail for tax fraud

NOVANEWS news.yahoo.com Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was sentenced to four years in jail on Friday for tax fraud in connection with the purchase of broadcasting rights by his Mediasettelevision company. The 76-year-old billionaire media magnate, who was convicted three times during the 1990s in the first degree before being cleared by higher courts, has the right to appeal the ruling two more times before the sentence becomes definitive. That process is likely to be lengthy and he will not be jailed unless he loses the final appeal. Even then, because the crime was committed when an amnesty to prevent prison overcrowding was in place, the maximum possible jail time would be one year. The ruling comes two days after Berlusconi confirmed he would not run in next yea...