<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.congoo.com/css/rss.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Italy News - Congoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=65&amp;catid=237</link><description>News Feed for - Italy</description><item><title>Berlusconi's wife wants 43m payoff - PA</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96561414&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T23:53:00</pubDate><description>The estranged wife of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi wants 43 million a year as a divorce settlement. Veronica Lario left her husband after he became embroiled in a sex scandal involving at least one </description><source>Guardian.co.uk</source></item><item><title>MoU for EDF entry into South Stream on Thursday</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96584465&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T18:51:00</pubDate><description>MILAN (Reuters) - Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and French president Nicolas Sarkozy will sign on Thursday the memorandum of understanding for the entry of France's EDF (EDF.PA) into the South </description><source>Reuters</source></item><item><title>Banca IMI, Deutsche Bank to lead Buzzi Unicem's EUR300m-400m bond...</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96473186&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T22:02:00</pubDate><description>- Banca IMI and Deutsche Bank (ETR:DBK) will act as joint lead managers and joint bookrunners of Italian cement maker Buzzi Unicem's (BIT:BZU) benchmark bond of EUR300m-400m (USD453.4m-604.5m). The company </description><source>Zibb</source></item><item><title>Milan prosecutors seek prison sentences for Google execs</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96504358&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T23:08:00</pubDate><description>(11-25) 08:40 PST -- Milan prosecutors Wednesday sought prison sentences ranging from six months to one year for four Google executives accused of violating Italy's privacy laws over the posting of a </description><source>San Francisco Chronicle</source></item><item><title>BRIEF-Telco statement on Telecom Italia</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96584884&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T18:55:00</pubDate><description>MILAN, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Telecom Italia shareholder Telco said in a statement on Thursday: * Telco investor Sintonia to buy 2.06 pct of Telecom Italia at 2.2 eur/shr for 605 mln eur * Telco to buy back </description><source>Forbes.com</source></item><item><title>Bank of America Merrill Lynch to manage Italian Hera's EUR500m bo...</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96499860&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T22:02:00</pubDate><description>Bank of America Merrill Lynch to manage Italian Hera's EUR500m bond Nov 26, 2009 (M2 EQUITYBITES via COMTEX) -- Company: Bank of America Corp. (BAC) 26 November 2009 - Bank of America Merrill Lynch (NYSE:BAC) </description><source>Zibb</source></item><item><title>In Italy, A Sex Scandal to Rival Berlusconi's</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96501004&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T20:28:00</pubDate><description>Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's party-guy private life has dominated Italy's public discourse for more than six months. But his alleged dalliances with prostitutes and underage girls is getting some </description><source>Time</source></item><item><title>Italy regulator sets 11 euro cent limit on SMS cost</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96582577&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T17:06:00</pubDate><description>ROME, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Italy's telecoms regulator said on Thursday that four major operators had agreed to apply a limit of 11 euro cents plus value added tax for sending an SMS. TIM (TLIT.MI), Vodafone </description><source>Reuters UK</source></item><item><title>UPDATE 1-Italy gaming co SNAI gets binding offer</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96578914&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T17:14:00</pubDate><description>MILAN, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Loss-making Italian gaming company SNAI SpA has received a binding offer from private equity funds Bridgepoint Capital Ltd and Axa Investment Managers Private Equity Europe SA, </description><source>Forbes.com</source></item><item><title>Italy's solar power capacity rises to 700 MW: GSE</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96580572&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T16:39:00</pubDate><description>MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's total capacity of the photovoltaic (PV) installations that turn sunlight into power has risen to 700.7 megawatts from 650 MW a month ago, the state-run energy management agency </description><source>Reuters</source></item><item><title>PFI - Italy - ERG funds Sicilian expansionLondon, Nov 26</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96576254&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T16:18:00</pubDate><description>London, Nov 26 (Project Finance International) - Five banks have reached financial close on the 330mln euros debt facility to finance ERG SpA's (ERG.MI: Quote, Profile, Research) NuCe Nord repowering </description><source>Reuters India</source></item><item><title>Spread between Italy BTPs, Bunds at 2-1/2 mth high</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96576034&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T16:08:00</pubDate><description>MILAN, Nov 26 (Reuters) - The spread between Italian benchmark 10-year BTP bonds and German Bunds reached 90 basis points on Thursday, the widest gap since Sept. 8, according to Reuters data. (Reporting </description><source>Forbes.com</source></item><item><title>Silvio Berlusconi's wife 'demands Â£3m a month'</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96570269&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T15:25:00</pubDate><description>Silvio Berlusconi's estranged wife is demanding Â£3 million a month maintenance, it has been claimed, in what is likely to rank as one of the biggest divorce settlements in history. Veronica Lario, 53, </description><source>Telegraph</source></item><item><title>TABLE-Italy Nov business morale highest since Sept '08</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96558171&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T09:12:00</pubDate><description>ROME, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Italian business confidence rose by more than expected in November to its highest level since September 2008, as demand picked up and the production outlook brightened, data showed </description><source>Forbes.com</source></item><item><title>Fiat 500 or Mazda2?</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96553021&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T08:21:00</pubDate><description>Chic and cheerful You've really put the cat among the pigeons... I have test driven the Fiat 500 Lounge 1.2 and Mazda2 1.3 TS2 back-to-back over the same route. The Mazda has a quieter engine, less road/wind </description><source>Telegraph</source></item><item><title>"Tremendous" Italian prince dies</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96593450&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T21:12:00</pubDate><description>Giorgio Carbone, elected prince of the Italian village of Seborga whose colourful language earned him the title Your Tremendousness, has died at the age of 73. The ANSA news agency says Carbone, who adopted </description><source>ONE News</source></item><item><title>Head of Oreal China receives 2009 China awards in Rome</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96602932&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T22:57:00</pubDate><description>ROME, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- Paolo Gasparrini, Chairman of L'Oral China, has received the Lombard Elite award, which is given to Italian and Chinese companies, entrepreneurs, professionals and institutions </description><source>Xinhua News Agency</source></item><item><title>Report says Berlusconiâ??s wife seeking pricey alimony</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96558835&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T20:18:00</pubDate><description>Amherst - Nova Scotia Contents of this website are copyright Â© Amherst Daily News bworks@amherstdaily.com This site is part of the Transcontinental Media Network Search our news network: Daily Newspapers: </description><source>Amherst Daily News</source></item><item><title>Alcoa to Idle Italian - scuffles with the Italian police injured worker</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96604522&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T23:24:00</pubDate><description>The smelters have a combined capacity of 194,000 metric tons of aluminum per year and directly employ about 1,000 workers. The shut-down process will begin immediately, with completion expected in the </description><source>NYC Independent Media Center</source></item><item><title>Italy: Senate committee bars request to arrest 'mafia-linked' minister</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96604476&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T23:24:00</pubDate><description>The committee was made up of MPs from the ruling coalition and opposition parties. Cosentino (photo) is the deputy secretary for economy and finance and regional coordinator of Italian prime minister </description><source>NYC Independent Media Center</source></item><item><title>Fugro Awarded 3.5 Year Service Contract Middle East</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96274593&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T23:18:00</pubDate><description>Fugro Survey (Middle East) Limited has been awarded a 3.5 year extension to their existing contracts with engineering and construction company, J. Ray McDermott (J. Ray), for the provision of survey, </description><source>Your Subsea News</source></item><item><title>Prato di Correggio, Italy: Kerself Signs LOI to Acquire Majority Interest in Albatech; </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96598814&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T21:33:00</pubDate><description>Prato di Correggio, Italy: Kerself Signs LOI to Acquire Majority Interest in Albatech; Plans â?¬70M Capital Increase Italian system integrator, Kerself has signed a letter of intent with the Meta System </description><source>Solarbuzz</source></item><item><title>The Italian art of making wine and painting</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96598535&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T21:29:00</pubDate><description>Special to The Japan Times Idropmagine the colors of a vast Tuscan vineyard drenched in a September sun â?? emerald green leaves, gnarled brown vines, deep purple grapes, shale earth, azure sky â?? an </description><source>Japan Times</source></item><item><title>Italy's Installed Capacity From Photovoltaic Tops 700 MW</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96584033&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T21:36:00</pubDate><description>Italy 's installed capacity from government-approved incentives from photovoltaic facilities has reached more than 700 megawatts, state-run Gestore Servizi Energetici, or GSE, said Thursday. There are </description><source>Energia.gr</source></item><item><title>Softball: Mellieha Tigers to host two Italian teams next month</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96587663&amp;Channel_ID=65&amp;Category_ID=237</link><pubDate>2009-11-26T19:29:00</pubDate><description>Next month, the Mellieha Tigers Softball Club (Malta) will be hosting two Italian teams, Milano and Saronno, where together with the Mellieha Tigers they will be engaged in a two-day fast-pitch softball </description><source>Malta Independent Daily</source></item></channel></rss>