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Italy struggled through a transportation meltdown on Friday, a reminder of the disruptions of daily life that crop up regularly in this beautiful nation to make life decidedly unpleasant.

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A strike in Italy to protest the government's budget and welfare policies caused flight cancellations, traffic disruptions and a reduction in public services Friday.

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When it comes to Italy and canals, Venice has the glamour but Milan has the mileage: three times longer than the waterways of its tourist magnet neighbor.

But the 152 kilometers, or 94 miles, of historic shipping canals, construction of which the Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci helped oversee, are falling apart and experts are fighting to save one of Italy's lesser-known treasures.

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Italy has opened its first all-female beach, a short stretch of sand on the Adriatic coast designed to let bathers relax away from prying eyes.

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Italy's state owned historic villas and palazzos are to be leased out for use as hotels on the condition that they are restored to their former glory.

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Bad administration, shady political deals and the interference of the Mafia are at the heart of southern Italy's illegal waste racket.

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Despite an unrelenting heat wave, sunlovers are steering clear of Italian beaches because of a poison algae plague.

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