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/ 16 April 2008

Berlusconi seeks to woo anti-immigrant party

Italians on Tuesday got their first taste of life under their new government as Silvio Berlusconi moved to appease the newly powerful Northern League with pledges of lower taxes, more police and camps for jobless foreigners. ”One of the things to do is to close the frontiers,” he said in a TV interview.

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/ 28 November 2007

Cock crows too early for Italian town

A rooster crowing at the break of dawn has earned his owner a €200 fine in an Italian court after neighbours complained it was waking them up too early. Ansa news agency reported on Wednesday that the rooster’s owner in Bolzano province would appeal the sentence on the grounds that he needs at least one rooster to breed chickens.