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/ 6 February 2007
Soccer fans won’t be allowed into stadiums in Italy unless security measures are met, the country’s Interior Minister said on Monday. The decision comes only days after riots broke out during and after a Serie A match in Sicily in which a police officer was killed.
The Italian elections split the nation in half, with a bitterly contested race failing to produce a clear winner in Parliament on Tuesday, more than 12 hours after polls closed, and threatening a new season of political instability. Near-final returns on Tuesday showed Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s conservatives holding a razor-thin lead in the Senate and Romano Prodi’s center-left winning the lower house by the smallest of margins.
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/ 19 January 2006
Nearly 90% of Italians call themselves Catholics, but more than two-thirds favour legal recognition for unmarried couples despite opposition from the Church, according to a study sociologists say is evidence that Italians tailor their religion to
fit their lifestyles.