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Silvio Berlusconi has banned Mafia bosses from singing in jails in Italy after they used songs to pass criminal messages to each other.

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A report from one of Italy’s most respected broadsheet newspapers suggests one in four of all Italian couples regularly take part in wife swapping.

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As soldiers prepare to be deployed on Italian streets, an city mayor has been accused of Fascism after he passed an edict banning groups of more than three people congregating in parks and public gardens.

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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has sparked controversy after he applied for permission to double the size of his private estate and got it in record time.

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Ryanair has plunged itself into a diplomatic row with the Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi, publishing an inflammatory advert on its website attacking Italy’s support for rival Alitalia.

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Cabinet issues a state of emergency over illegal immigration as it emerged
that hundreds of Roma were fleeing fingerprinting.

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Soldiers will patrol Italian cities from next month under a controversial new law and order package by Silvio Berlusconi’s government.

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Silvio Berlusconi declared he had “civilised” Naples by ending its
rubbish crisis - although photographs showed that the mounds of waste had
simply been moved into the suburbs.

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Silvio Berlusconi, the controversial Italian prime minister, has complained of a lack of experience among Europe’s leaders.

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When leaders of the world’s richest nations gather for the G8 summit amid the
volcanoes and forests of northern Japan, they might be tempted to compare
their political woes.

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