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Man who quit his job in Turin in 2017 says he didn’t deliver any mail for three years because his salary was too low.

Bullets have been sent in the post to three key figures at the Italian Referees' Association, according to its president.

A first round of consultations to form a new Italian government failed Thursday, as the main parties remained at loggerheads, meaning more negotiations will be necessary next week.

'As stylists, not as historians, we live in a liquid society... where many references have changed, just as the use and perception of words have changed'

Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed that Iranian state television censored the logo of an Italian football club during its coverage of UEFA Champions League football.

Most Italian immigrants and the businesses they started have long left Little Italy, but the Italian American Museum is expanding its footprint downtown to make sure they are not forgotten. Led by its president, Joseph Scelsa, the museum in February closed on a deal to sell its three contiguous 3-story buildings on Grand Street to Nexus Building Development Group and Oved Group, which are developing a 25,000-square-foot residential building. The museum will own and occupy a condominium on the ground floor. The institution, which opened on Grand Street in 2008, recently closed its doors to undergo an expansion to 6,500 square feet, more than four times its previous size.

The head of Italy’s right-wing League party said Thursday that the center-right bloc it heads should get to form the next Italian government since it won the most votes in Italy’s last election, and that it was open to working with Italy’s populist 5-Star Movement.

Alec Baldwin is enjoying a resurgence with his performance of Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live but imagine what fun could be had at the expense of Silvio Berlusconi in Italy. Italian broadcaster Sky Italia has ordered its own local version of the NBC Universal entertainment format.

The Legislature passed nearly 1,000 bills last year. A few were important. Most were not. Many were frivolous, some dumb — a waste of politicians' time and public money.

Matteo Salvini sent a scathing attack to his counterpart Luigi Di Maio after the young leader of the Five Star Movement announced he would be willing to form a post-election coalition with centre-left pro-EU party Partito Democratico.

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