Topic: Campania
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Global News Blog Food fight: Naples protests 'culinary racism' over pizza snub
Naples prides itself as the birthplace of pizza. So when a top Italian food guide overlooked the city's famed dish, protests erupted.
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Why Italy's trash wars are still smoldering
Italy's garbage woes are resurfacing as one town near historic Pompeii protests a new trash dump and rubbish piles return to Naples.
10/21/2010 11:05 am -
'Ndrangheta Mafia undone: Italy arrests 300 in huge crackdown
The 'Ndrangheta mafia, Italy's most powerful crime syndicate, was dealt a major blow by Italian police Tuesday. Police arrested 300, including the 'Ndrangheta mafia boss, Domenico Oppedisano. The group is allegedly involved in the health-care industry, cocaine distribution, and arms trafficking.
07/13/2010 07:01 pm -
Global News Blog Voracious tree-eating beetles invade Italy
The relatively large red palm weevil of Asia arrived in southern Italy about five years ago. Conservationists are calling the tree-eating beetle infestation a national emergency.
07/03/2010 06:55 pm -
Review: 'Gomorrah'
True to the bloody, mundane realities of Mafia gangsters' lives, this film often devolves into incomprehensibility.
02/28/2009 12:00 am -
In Naples, artists use irony to tackle festering trash crisis
The EU announced Tuesday it would take Italy to the European Court of Justice. The overflow of rubbish has inspired an artistic movement to effect change.
05/07/2008 01:00 am -
In Naples, artists use irony to tackle festering trash crisis
05/07/2008 01:00 am -
In Naples, artists use irony to tackle festering trash crisis
The EU announced Tuesday it would take Italy to the European Court of Justice. The overflow of rubbish has inspired an artistic movement to effect change.
05/06/2008 01:00 am -
Terrorism & Security Italian government nears collapse after key Prodi ally defects
Prime Minister Romano Prodi may resign in the wake of a defection by a key parliamentary ally.
01/22/2008 12:00 am
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