Tag: front page stories
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Italian politics shaken up by crew of new legislators
By Anthony Faiola / Stefano Pitrelli contributed to this report
The 27-year-old elevator salesman without a single day of experience in political office arrived in the Italian capital this month with 162 other freshman legislators from the Five Star Movement — a Web-based force whose success in recent elections has the newcomers suddenly bidding arrivederci to politics as usual in Italy.
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Sting operations reveal Mafia involvement in renewable energy
By Anthony Faiola / Stefano Pitrelli in Rome and Eliza Mackintosh in London contributed to this report
PALERMO, Italy — Inside a midnight-blue BMW, a Sicilian entrepreneur delivered his pitch to the accused mafia boss. A new business was blowing into Italy that could spin wind and sunlight into gold, ensuring the future of the Earth as well as the Cosa Nostra: renewable energy. (altro…)