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GAZA STRIP: Suspect in killing of Italian activist dies in standoffComments (0) April 19, 2011?|? 9:34pm

Hamas rulers in the Gaza Strip said Tuesday that a man suspected of killing an Italian pro-Palestinian activist in the territory committed suicide during a tense police standoff.

The suspect, a Jordanian citizen, shot himself after he hurled a grenade at two of his partners, critically injuring one of them, the Hamas-run Interior Ministry said in a statement published on its website.

Three policemen were injured during an exchange of fire, the statement added.
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Hamas police said armed officers surrounded a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip in which three Islamist Salafists had taken shelter.

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Police cordoned off the area and evacuated scores of houses. Clashes between police and the armed Salafists lasted almost two hours.

A police official who spoke on condition of anonymity said police tried to resolve the situation peacefully, but the other side continued firing at soldiers and mediators.

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The Interior Ministry on Monday posted names and photos on its website of suspects in the killing of Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni and indicated that it had begun a manhunt.?

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The body of Arrigoni was discovered in an abandoned house just hours after a radical Islamist group with links to Al Qaeda announced that it was holding him in exchange for the release of its leader, who is being held in a Hamas prison.

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It was the first abduction of a Westerner in Gaza since 2007. It is also the only instance of such a kidnapping victim being slain.

--Ahmed Aldabba in Gaza City

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Hope abroad: sprout in Italian film studio's decay

The usual.

At the reception of the Cinecittà, the legendary film Studio, flickered clips of "Death in Venice" and "La Dolce Vita" on a video monitor over the heads of the reception staff. Coltish free young people in Nike and Marcello Mastroianni sunglasses decanted from a school bus outside loose for a tour through the Studio back, where the Italian version of "Big Brother" is stuck.

This country has become recently an own reality show, as Italians often complain about. The situation is to come to the point where no one find it particularly odd seems the Prime Minister, as an Italian version of Miriam from forest hills or Dave from Harlem to call in the WFAN, regular phones to chat TV shows or complain about how the host is some Government representation to measure.

Not long ago, Mr Berlusconi, Giovanni Floris, hosts of "Ballarò" so far as to refuse the went call. Already he's turn had Silvio of the Chigi Palace, declared Mr Floris, and if the head of the Italian Government had to say something more, he was on the show in person come and say that it is welcome.

This passes now gallows comedy in the country of Plautus and Boccaccio, where pay Mr Berlusconi's administration, national arts budget and the Fund for Opera, music, theatre, film, to the endless away standard with lip-service to the culture of the country's pride and joy and economic engine.? The second anniversary of the earthquake, which devastated L'Aquila came and went in this month, and, shame, the formerly bustling and historical centre of the city is almost empty. A concert hall designed by Shigeru ban, the Japanese architect, open it on the anniversary, was again and again by the usual money and organizational afflictions delayed.

The conductor Riccardo Muti made news last month as during the premiere of "Nabucco" here in Rome, he led the audience in a spontaneous Encore "Va, Pensiero." ("O, my own country, so beautiful and lost" is the relevant documents.) The occasion was a celebration of the 150th anniversary of Italian unity, and the addition was the amount of protest against arts cuts and the country's General State of turmoil, Mr muti said then, to match the event "some of the Visconti film" Senso, "confirms that for Italian life has come, to imitate fiction."

Luchino the list goes on Visconti and his ilk, including Federico Fellini, Vittorio de SICA, Bernardo Bertolucci, William Wyler, Joseph L. mankiewicz, Martin Scorsese - and more - in the decades Cinecittà that storied was most film production centre in Europe, but until some weeks ago have an Italian landmark in the crisis, or so it was said. Without an incentive program of the friendly facilities abroad have to entice foreign filmmakers, said the Studio itself, if only to public sympathy for the sale of a Fellini's priceless props, to raise fast cash call.

The Government recently came through with a three year postponement, promised in the Act breaks tax to 25 percent of the money, to spend the foreign manufacturers on production here. This brings the Studio closer to that in Berlin, Prague, Budapest and London.

Still, a delay, such as in a film ends finally. Italy seems today not in the position, far in the future, whether backup for posterity his famous film center or preserve his crumbling architectural and archaeological heritage or consolidation of this increasingly vast, varied and unstoppable capital plan.

In other words, if I in stopped to see Maurizio Sperandini, Deputy general manager of Cinecittà, he fazed apparently not. Director of the production facilities and a 22-year veteran of the complex, he has been through many ups and deep, and he told me that he and his bosses with the three year contract were satisfied. He boasted annual income of $ 57 million doubled as Studio went private mid of 1990s, when it was on the verge of bankruptcy.

Founded by Mussolini to promote Italian cinema and fascist propaganda films, Cinecittà sitting on 99 acres of public land, joint-stock company used buildings and public tax credits depends on, but it is a private, profit-oriented company with a list of glittery investors. You are now 115 million consider an expansion $ to free parts of the property, a new includes complex of sorting soundstage, offices, a hotel, a gym and a restaurant, which Mr Sperandini said the Cinecittà competitors offer.

The 1930s Meanwhile rejects campus of ochre buildings of Gino Peressutti, an important work of the Italian modernist design, properly in a landscape of cypress trees, Palm trees and fiberglass trailer. Streets in the Forum there were from the Group of the "Rome," the defunct HBO series, the decrepit waterfront of 19 lower Manhattan from "Gangs of New York." On a soundstage where Fellini "Satyricon" shot and Wes Anderson shot "the life aquatic with Steve Zissou" dangling a spaghetti involvement of air-conditioning channels of silent catwalks. The other morning stylists were models for a fashion shoot from a fake old Colonnade, primping, where someone had parked a Renault.

"I would like to take you to the u-boot" proposed Mr. Sperandini Wizard, Francesca Rotondo, to not find contested Renault owners; and like a supernatural characters in "the adjustment Bureau", she opened a door on the set of a 14 Florentine Palazzo on weedy lot where meeting participants were collected, and the u boat of "U-571," that 2000 geschlummert in a film long on a German u boat,, white condom-shaped tent. Nearby, the young people from the school bus flirted, written and tried not to get bored look while waiting for on their applies which go in.

"We sell a mixture of past and future," is, as Mr Sperandini took the complaint as a filmmaker working in this place, where the glamour and Surrealism of Fellini have not yet evaporated, and the General State of madness - a charmed - magical witches, many of which - a microcosm of the Italy and a metaphor seems worn and rather somnolent for how, despite itself, thrive Italian anyway.

Some variations of Cinecittà's public private business model for the good or the bad, may ultimately prove to be a relief for other ailing cultural institutions. This is clearly the hope, Mr Berlusconi, the billionaire, who owns newspapers and television stations, including those which he sometimes when calling. Of course he has for more private control, perhaps as a way, his inexcusable cuts in the culture budget and the incompetence of his Government Management excuse them plea was.

But the story of Italy, as always, now is also one of the unlikely power and resourcefulness. Again and again, the country survived his self-inflicted disaster. It is a part of the lovable, incomparable beauty and attractiveness of the place. If I were made of the u-Bahn in the city, Mr Berlusconi have been hundreds of protesters posters mocking for his relationship with Karima el-Mahroug, the underage girl in question, which is the heart stealer of the Nom d ' art Ruby. She protested in the Piazza at the Pantheon and mixed with helpless Japanese and Chinese tourists.

It was the usual scene of chaos, joy, and complaints. A band anstimmte in the vicinity of the well. The Sun sank, casting shadows over the place.

This was Rome. And everyone was very happy.

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Tunisian boat people riot on the Italian island of migrants - AFP

Tunisian boat people riot on Italian migrants island(AFP) - 5 hours ago

LAMPEDUSA, Italy - Tunisian boat refugees randalierten Monday on the Italian island of Lampedusa, in protest against their imminent deportation under a controversial deal between Rome and Tunis last week found.

"Freedom!" "Freedom!"shouted some of the migrants on a connection are set out in the hundreds. Some of them started a small fire in the Center which was quickly taken by the Fire Department and the housing fled dozens.

Some of among others later in the prison immigrants.

Lampedusa measures only 20 square miles (7.7 km2) and is closer to North Africa as on the Italian mainland. More than 25,000 migrants arrived in fishing boats from North Africa since the beginning of the year and most have been moved to detention centres on the Italian mainland.

That the second flight flew two aircraft with dozens of migrants from Lampedusa to Tunis during the day despite protests by the deportees, delayed.

A first Planeload of deported left Italy for Tunisia on Sunday with around 30 migrants aboard escorted by about 60 police officers.

In the meantime two boats with 226 migrants on the island were on Monday, to around 1500 the number of boat people currently on Lampedusa.

One thing between Rome and Tunis last week agreed Italy to grant six migrants residence permit that before April 5, were Tunisia the removal of any arrival after this time agreed.

Around 1,000 of migrants in Lampedusa are believed be to Tunisians; the others are refugees from sub-Saharan Africa, which was the escape of Libya have.

Italy has the European Union in General and especially to the immigration deal not France accused. The issue topped the agenda of a heated meeting of the Minister of the Interior in Luxembourg.

German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said it was dealing with the wave of migrants up to Italy and find a solution with the Tunisian authorities to reach people from Europe's shores.

"We can not many economic migrants accept arrival in Europe by Italy." That is why we expect the existing legal rules Italy to comply with and his duty in talks with the Tunisians, "said Friedrich."

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Sunday said 80 percent of the more than 21,000 Tunisian migrants who have arrived since the beginning of the year of friends and relatives in France, Tunisia's wanted to join former colonial ruler.

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Italian Premier sex trial opens, memory - Los Angeles Times

Demonstrators hold posters and shirts carry Milan read "Out" to a court during the first day of Prime Minister of Silvio Berlusconi's "Ruby the heart stealer" trial. (Giuseppe Cacace / AFP/Getty Images / Bongarts / April 6, 2011)The process of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges of sexual misconduct and abuse of Wednesday makes open in Milan and was adjourned almost immediately to 31 May.

It was one of the testimony on alleged orgy-like parties at Berlusconi's Villa and phone-tap transcripts with girls who were said to male entertained handsomely paid guests on the most anticipated courtroom include events in the history of Italy, with evidence.

It began negotiations with a disappointing ten minutes.

The Defense list of senior friends, Ministers, members of Parliament, TV presenters and actors is testimony reportedly include George Clooney, has a villa close to Lake Como.

Berlusconi not Moroccan performer Karima El Mahroug, known by her stage name Ruby Biagiotti - Ruby the heart stealer - was present.

The 74-year-old Prime Minister is accused paying for sex with Mahroug last year, when she was 17 - a year younger than for legal prostitution in Italy - if she invited to Parties at his villa in Arcore, outside Milan, described in the press as fixed, which contain striptease and sex.

The Prime Minister has always protested his innocence, denying the sex with her and say that she lied about her age...

He was also accused of calling Milan police in May 2010 release her from prison on suspicion of the theft of more than $4000, claims it was related to then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Berlusconi says that he convinced was that she was related with Mubarak and tried to avoid a diplomatic incident.

Berlusconi, who accused against him politically motivated the Italian justice, is also other studies for corruption, fraud and embezzlement in connection with his activities as a media entrepreneur.

Wednesday's hearing came a day after the Italian Parliament by a narrow margin in in favour of the transition of the study, a ministerial Special Court instead of the Milan court, caused by the charges of abuse of power was. However, not the study is intended to influence the decision, until he is confirmed by the Constitutional Court, told of Reuters is reported.

Coverage in the press was Wednesday study on newspaper and agency limited reporter; TV cameras in Italian courts usually allows were kept outside.

Reports that the prosecution would join Mahroug were denied by her defense lawyer, according to the Italian press agency ANSA. It said that the Court, her lawyer, Paolo Boccardi said, that his client not damage than say they would "not for journeys to the Arcore, neither... sometimes suffer damage from frequenting the Prime Minister"

Boccardi said contradicted the accusation of prostitution "what has always said Karima, she never was the object, sexual acts by the Prime Minister....""she has stressed always, that it, it takes no prostitutes during this study for granted that she were paid."

Janet.Stobart@LATimes.com

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Fleeing North Africa and Landing in an Italian Limbo

Perhaps they could have just walked.

“Oh, let them go,” a plainclothes officer standing near the camp’s gate said loudly, his metal badge visible on his breast pocket.

The Italian government hastily built this camp in the Puglia region, the heel of Italy’s boot, last weekend to help hold immigrants evacuated from Lampedusa, a tiny Italian island south of Sicily that is jammed with thousands of immigrants from North Africa who have crossed the Mediterranean in fishing boats and are now sleeping in the open air.

The Puglia center, which holds about 1,300 people, is an example of the logistical challenges that Italy — and Europe — face as they prepare for thousands of immigrants fleeing the unrest in North Africa. So far, most of them have been Tunisians seeking work, but last weekend the first boats arrived from Libya carrying Somalis and Eritreans who had been working there.

To some Italians, the tent camp is as much a political statement as a humanitarian reality, the product of a center-right government intent on demonstrating that the immigration situation has become an emergency that requires a coordinated European response. If the authorities wanted to dramatize the problem, some say, what better way than with photographs of immigrants escaping from crowded holding areas?

Others see the camp as a bargaining chip in a diplomatic standoff between Italy and France, the former colonial power in Tunisia and the place where most of the Tunisians say they want to go.

Under European Union law, the country where immigrants arrive is responsible for determining their status. Italy has argued that it should not bear the brunt of the new arrivals just because it is so close to North Africa. In a television interview on Wednesday, the Italian foreign minister, Franco Frattini, criticized France for its “lack of solidarity” after it returned more than 500 immigrants to Italy after they were caught trying to cross the border into France.

“It’s a political statement to France: ‘You want to start the war in Libya? We’ll give you immigrants,’?” said Tonio Tondo, a journalist following the immigration situation for the daily La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno. Italy, which colonized Libya in the early 20th century, stands to lose billions in investments there because of the allied intervention. Italy is taking part in the mission, but it was championed by France.

Here in Manduria, officials seem nonchalant about the escapes. Asked why the Italian authorities appeared to do so little to stop the immigrants’ jumping the fence, Giuseppe Caruso, the police chief of Palermo and the special commissioner for the immigration emergency, asked rhetorically: “What should we do? Should we shoot them?”

But the camp is rapidly emerging as a problem. The town’s residents protested on Wednesday, calling for it to be closed because so many immigrants had escaped. Then both the mayor and Italy’s deputy interior minister, Alfredo Mantovano, tendered their resignations after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said in a visit to Lampedusa on Wednesday that an additional 1,400 immigrants would be brought to Manduria. On Monday, Mr. Mantovano had pledged that the camp would not hold more than 1,500 people.

With its neat rows of blue tents on freshly laid gravel, and dozens of uniformed officials, the camp shows the power of the Italian state. But it also reveals its fissures. The camp is a legal no-man’s land. The new arrivals’ status — are they illegal immigrants, refugees or asylum seekers? — is uncertain, making it nearly impossible for the Italian authorities to process, repatriate or detain them.

Before the influx began in January, bringing about 18,000 people through Lampedusa, the immigrants who arrived there were held on the island for a few days before being sent to formal immigration or asylum centers on the mainland. The Interior Ministry says those centers are now almost full as Italy struggles with a bureaucratic backlog.

Under Italian law, immigrants can be held for up to 180 days to determine their status, and much longer if they are seeking asylum. If their arrival is deemed to be illegal, and they would not be subject to persecution in their home countries, they can be sent home. But Italy’s repatriation accords with Tunisia and Libya have broken down.

“We’re waiting for a directive,” said Antonio Calcagni, the chief of the immigration office at the Police Department in the nearby port city of Taranto, as he stood outside the Manduria camp. “Different countries are working on it,” he added.

The immigrants have grown frustrated, too. “We’ve been here for three days,” said Omar Naim, 24, a Tunisian, as he peered through the fence. “They haven’t done anything for us.”

Italian officials traveled last week to Tunisia, which still lacks a functioning government, to persuade the authorities there to honor the repatriation accords.

“What’s the legal status of the camp? That’s a good question,” said Nichi Vendola, the president of the Puglia region and a leading member of the center-left opposition. “Is it a place for determining who is an illegal immigrant? A place to receive asylum seekers? A hybrid place?” He added, “The confusion is the fruit of the ideological prejudices of the Northern League, which dominates the Berlusconi government.”

That party, the most powerful in the governing center-right coalition, has long drawn on fears of illegal immigration. Asked on Tuesday what should be done about the immigrants, the Northern League’s colorful leader, Umberto Bossi, used a phrase that politely translates as “get them out of our faces.”

The interior minister, Roberto Maroni, a member of the Northern League, has been more diplomatic, but has repeatedly said the European Union has abandoned Italy. The Italian government is not alone in seeking a more coordinated European response. Laura Boldrini, spokeswoman for the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Italy, said it was important to distinguish between the “economic migrants” from Tunisia who were seeking work in Europe and those fleeing the fighting in Libya.

“In the event of a mass influx of asylum seekers from Libya, the U.N.H.C.R. recommends that member states receive them and give them temporary protection,” Ms. Boldrini said. “It would be good to have a positive sign from Europe,” she added. “That could also help reduce tensions and calm down tones in Italy.”

Back in Manduria, as bulldozers worked the ground and trucks carted in generators, the camp seemed increasingly less temporary. Mr. Calcagni, the immigration chief for the Taranto police, looking resigned, cited an often-used Italian saying: “There’s nothing more definitive than something provisional.”