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The city council has introduced a new service allowing Rome residents to obtain certificates via email through its website. In all 16 certificates are available on-line including residency, marriage, birth, citizenship and civil status; the only certificate that cannot be obtained...
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The restoration of the Pasquino statue (near Piazza Navona), done by the ATI Ghia-Equilibrarte, is now complete after almost five months of work. The Pasquino is the most famous of the Talking Statues in Rome, and in the past was always...
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There’s always plenty going on in Rome on 17 March; it’s just a question of choosing what’s best.
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Work is underway to create a multi-storey car park above the tracks at Rome’s Termini station. The project involves the creation of a special platform across the railway to support the structure, which will have space for 1,400 cars and 180...
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Some of Rome’s most important parks and gardens are to get an overhaul under a project carried out by the city council with support from the culture ministry.
The works involve Villa Carpegna in the Aurelio district in northwest Rome, Villa Celimontana...
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Students from one of Rome's leading international schools presented the Rome based World Food Programme with a cheque for €6000 on Tuesday 9 March to help victims of the recent Haiti earthquake.
Five students from The New School Rome representing both...
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The Pincio, which looks out over Piazza del Popolo, has once again become a place for leisure-time strollers, children and tourists. It has now been restored after several years of abandon during excavations for the proposed Pincio car park.
The present mayor...
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Some of Rome’s more eco-conscious supermarkets already provide paper and eco bags for customers. Now AMA, the city’s waste disposal utility, has started to distribute paper shopping bags throughout the city. From 8-14 and 22-28 March it will give out 500,000...
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Rome council has introduced a service on its website allowing people to see if they will be receiving a request for payment for outstanding traffic fines received before 31 December 2004. Clicking on the box titled Concordato multe elevate fino al...
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President of the northern Lombardy region Roberto Formigoni of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right Popolo della Libertà (PdL) is back in the running for re-election on 28-29 March. The Lombardy regional administrative court accepted his appeal against an earlier court decision...
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The Popolo Viola (literally, “violet people”) returned to the streets on 27 February under the slogan “Everybody equal under the law”. The rally, in Rome’s Piazza del Popolo, was to protest against the so-called “legitimate impediment” bill allowing the prime minister...
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The government has set up a telephone information line for immigrant workers and their Italian employers to provide guidance on immigration issues and especially domestic work. The service, called Linea Amica Immigrazione, comes under the auspices of the ministry of public...
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Archaeologists have uncovered what they believe is a palace built by the family of the last king of Rome in Gabii along the Via Prenestina 20 km east of Rome.
The sixth century BC edifice sits atop a hill overlooking the ancient...
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Drivers and travellers in the centre of Rome can expect more disruptions over the coming weeks due to new roadworks on Via Nazionale.
The road is being resurfaced for the second time in less than a year after contractors did a...
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Rome’s horse-drawn carriages, or botticelle, have been banned from the city’s seven hills. In future they will only be allowed along the flat parts of the city, which means almost anywhere from Piazza del Popolo to the Colosseum, across the river...
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A new rubbish recycling system for commercial premises is being rolled out in the historic centre of Rome. As of 22 February shops, offices and restaurants are no longer allowed to leave their refuse on the street for collection. Instead it...
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Reports of corruption in Italy rose by 229 per cent in 2009 over the previous year according to the state audit court, or Corte dei Conti, which controls possible irregularities in public spending.
Complaints of misappropriation also showed an increase of...
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One full-body scanner will go into operation on an experimental basis at Rome’s Fiumicino and another at Milan’s Malpensa airports in the week beginning 22 February.
The scanners, which show images of people underneath their clothing, replace the conventional metal detectors...
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The first ground has been broken for a new marina on the Rome coastline, close to Leonardo Da Vinci international airport. The new project, which will have space for 1,400 yachts, is being built near the old lighthouse at Fiumicino, on...
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News in Europe
Dublin, Ireland:
Dublin Christmas sales
published on 15/12/2209
Dublin's biggest department stores, Arnotts, Clerys and Brown Thomas, are breaking...
Milan, Italy:
Marathons in Milan
published on 17/03/2010
The annual non-competitive Stramilano marathon has been moved to Sunday 21...
Milan, Italy:
New traffic restrictions for Arco della Pace
published on 15/03/2010
New traffic limitations are to be introduced on an experimental basis...
Vienna, Austria:
Vienna city referendum results
published on 12/03/2010
The results of Vienna’s first referendum in 20 years, conducted from...
Paris, France:
Université Paris Cité
published on 11/03/2010
Eight Parisian universities have regrouped under the new umbrella of Université...
Milan, Italy:
Bike sharing to be extended in Milan
published on 10/03/2010
Milan’s public transport provider ATM has announced plans to extend the...
Oxford, United Kingdom:
Street pastors for Oxford
published on 10/03/2010
Oxford city centre is to see church-sponsored late night patrols of...
Jersey, Great Britain:
Schools grow Jersey Royals
published on 10/03/2010
Primary schools have once again been invited to enter the Genuine...
Dublin, Ireland:
Dart Underground Plan Unveiled
published on 09/03/2010
In a radical overhaul of Dublin's rail infastructure, the Dart Underground...
Milan, Italy:
Sustainable lifestyle expo at Milano Fiera City
published on 09/03/2010
Fa' la cosa giusta! (Do the right thing!) returns to Milan...
News in Africa
Nairobi, Kenya:
UN Security Council calls for “compromise”.
published on 08/02/3008
The United Nations (UN) Security Council has urged Kenya’s leaders to...
Nairobi, Kenya:
Toyota to expand operations in Kenya
published on 18/03/2010
Japanese motor vehicle giant Toyota is to establish a regional African...
Lagos, Nigeria:
Nigerian cabinet dissolved
published on 18/03/2010
Nigeria’s acting president Goodluck Jonathan has dissolved the cabinet in what...
Cape Town, South Africa:
IZIKO visits on human rights day
published on 18/03/2010
21 March is Human Rights Day in South Africa, when the...
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania:
Power rationing in Tanzania
published on 18/03/2010
Tanzania’s electricity company Tanesco has started electricity rationing across the country...
Maputo, Mozambique:
Maputo port development
published on 17/03/2010
The port of Maputo is expected to process almost nine million...
Lagos, Nigeria:
New transport infrastructure for Lagos
published on 16/03/2010
New roads, a light rail service and water ferries have been...
Maputo, Mozambique:
Mozambique battles cholera and floods
published on 15/03/2010
Over 40 people are now known to have died from an...
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania:
Family planning for HIV patients in Dar es Salaam
published on 15/03/2010
Community health workers in Dar es Salaam are undertaking a new...
Cape Town, South Africa:
Climate change in Cape Town
published on 14/03/2010
Climate change is likely to have a devastating effect on Cape...
