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The 21st annual Italian Feast of SS. Crocifisso will be celebrated Saturday and Sunday, June 10 and 11, on the grounds of Maryville Academy, 1150 N. River Road, Des Plaines. The festival is put on by people in the Chicago area who emigrated from Ciminna, a small town outside Palermo, Sicily, where it has been celebrated since 1651. It will begin wi...

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While President Donald Trump's tough talk has upset U.S. relations with nations such as Mexico and Australia, the former U.S. ambassador to Italy sees no points of conflict with that nation. “There's no reason to think the Trump administration would have any interest in upsetting a very strong, very close relationship that has developed over the de...

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With research areas including nanotechnology, agrifood, robotics, ICT, and life sciences, scientific cooperation between Italy and the United States was strengthened and bolstered when the 2016-2017 Joint Declaration on Scientific and Technological Cooperation was signed today at the Foreign Ministry headquarters. In the afternoon, experts from the...

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By Mary Ann Thomas   Relatives of new U.S. Ambassador to Italy John Phillips didn't have to press too hard for him to visit his hometown of Leechburg before he begins his diplomatic assignment in a few weeks.   "We knew he was really busy, but we wanted to get him here soon because it's unlikely we'll get to see him for a long time,"...

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"Confidiamo che il successore del presidente Napolitano abbia la sua stessa autorevolezza, se Obama verrà in Italia lo accompagnerò certamente a Firenze e visitare questo bellissimo Consolato restaurato". Lo ha detto oggi l'ambasciatore degli Stati Uniti d'America in Italia, John R.Philips, intervenendo all'inaugurazione della sede consolare a Fire...

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Vicenza incanta l'ambasciatore degli Stati Uniti d'America John R. Phillips. E' accaduto stamani quando il massimo rappresentante della diplomazia americana in Italia, in visita per la prima volta in città insieme alla moglie e al console generale Kyle R. Scott, è stato accompagnato dal vicesindaco Jacopo Bulgarini d'Elci prima in Basilica Palladia...

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La delegazione dell'Associazione e della Fondazione ItaliaCamp, composta dai presidenti onorari Gianni Letta e Antonio Catricalà e dal presidente Fabrizio Sammarco, ha incontrato ieri all'ambasciata americana a Roma l'ambasciatore John Phillips, per illustrare la missione internazionale USACamp che si svolgerà dal 26 febbraio al 3 marzo tra Ne...

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The United States has returned 25 artefacts that were looted from Italy, including Etruscan vases, 1st-century frescoes and precious books that had made their way into top US museum, university and private collections. The items were either spontaneously turned over or were seized by police after Italian authorities noticed them in Christie's...

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Two events to mark in your agenda, the conference Italy is Back: Investment climate 2016 on Wednesday June 8th and the Power Cocktail on Thursday June 9th at the Chamber of Commerce of Rome. Two AmCham initiatives focused on some of the topics of major importance on which the Chamber is concentrating its attention on.   The conference of Wed...

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Thanksgiving is a uniquely American tradition. It began with the Pilgrims who had endured a brutal journey from England to America to begin new lives in what they called the New World. In November 1621, a year later, they held a feast —giving thanks for the harvest and for the generosity of their Native American neighbors who showed them how to pla...

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