Topic: Walter Veltroni

Italy Election 2008

Italy held its legislative elections from April 13-14 , 2008 , to elect a new parliament after President Giorgio Napolitano dissolved the previous one on February 6, 2008 . Two major coalitions competed, one led by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi , the other by former ...

Walter Veltroni

Walter Veltroni is the leader of Italy 's Democratic Party and was a candidate in the 2008 Italy Election . Veltroni , one of Italy 's most popular center-left politicians, was one of the first foreign supporters of Barack Obama , a relationship that dates ...
Hollywood hunk George Clooney learns to regret his independence in " Up in the Air," the latest comedy by Oscar-nominated Canadian director Jason Reitman which screened at the Rome film festival on Saturday.Clooney's character Ryan Bingham clocks up millions of air ...
"Hachiko," starring a Japanese Akita dog with Richard Gere in a prominent supporting role, is a " love story in the deepest sense," the veteran US actor said Friday at the Rome film festival.Based on a decades-old true story from Japan, the ...
Oscar-winning Bosnian director Danis Tanovic revisited the horrors of war in his gut-wrenching film " Triage" as the Rome film festival kicked off on Thursday. "If I could write, I would write a book like this," said Tanovic, who wrote the screenplay based ...
Italy's struggling left-wing opposition elected Dario Franceschini as its new leader on Saturday to replace Walter Veltroni, who quit after a humiliating defeat in a regional poll.The Democratic Party (PD) voted overwhelmingly in favour of the 50-year-old lawyer, by 1 ...

War films garner top honours at Rome film festival

Two war films, " Resolution 819" about the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and "Opium War" set in contemporary Afghanistan, won top honours Friday at the Rome Film Festival.Afghan filmmaker Siddiq Barmak, whose film relates the adventures of two US soldiers, one white and ...
Hundreds of thousands of teachers, students and parents took to the streets of Rome and other Italian cities on Thursday, to protest conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's multi-billion-euro education cuts.Organisers said up to one million people marched in the capital ...
Italy's opposition staged a mass rally in Rome Saturday, claiming 2.5 million people had taken to the streets to protest against Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing government.In a demonstration organised by Walter Veltroni's centre-left Democratic party (PD), left-wing activists ...
US Oscar winner Al Pacino will help kick off the Rome film festival on Wednesday as he picks up an achievement award on behalf of the Actors Studio, springboard for many of Hollywood's best and brightest.The nod to Hollywood will ...