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‘Gypsies banned’ sign at Rome bakery likened to Nazi Germany
IMG class=hide alt=”‘Gypsies banned’ sign at Rome bakery likened to Nazi Germany” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wpid-f787116be8d5de15ea38840ede5415642.jpg” (ANSA) – Rome, March 20 – A sign in a Rome bakery forbidding entry to “gypsies” triggered outrage and caused one rights group to complain that such … Continue reading
‘Gypsies banned’ from Rome bakery
IMG title=”” alt=”” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wpid-f787116be8d5de15ea38840ede541564.jpg” IMG class=hide alt=”‘Gypsies banned’ from Rome bakery” src=”http://www.mineralfossil.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wpid-f787116be8d5de15ea38840ede541564.jpg” (updates previous) (ANSA) – Rome, March 20 – A bakery in the working-class Tuscolano district in east Rome came under fire on Thursday for barring entry to Roma … Continue reading
Cycling: Drugs cheat Di Luca banned for life
(ANSA) – Rome, December 5 – Danilo Di Luca was banned from cycling for life by an Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) tribunal on Thursday after testing positive for blood-booster EPO earlier this year. The 37-year-old rider was given a life … Continue reading
Italian banned for three years for fake penis in doping test
(ANSA) – Rome, December 5 – An Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) tribunal on Thursday banned an Italian long-distance runner for three years for trying to use a fake penis to beat a doping test. Devis Licciardi, an athlete for the … Continue reading
Big cruise ships banned from Venice starting next November
(see related) (ANSA) – Rome, November 5 – Government officials in Rome on Tuesday ordered a halt to large cruise ships passing through the Venice lagoon, effective from November 2014, and a limit on smaller cruise vessels effective in January. … Continue reading
Singer-songwriter Vecchioni banned for DUI
(ANSA) – Brescia, October 23 – Veteran Italian singer-singwriter Roberto Vecchioni had his driving license revoked for six months Wednesday after failing a breathalyser test near Brescia on December 26, 2010. Vecchioni, 70, told the court he was over the … Continue reading
Open funeral banned for convicted Camorra mafia ‘godfather’
(ANSA) – Naples, October 21 – The Naples police chief on Monday banned an open funeral anywhere in the southern Italian city for a man convicted of ordering the murder of a 26-year-old crime reporter, considered by authorities to have … Continue reading