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...unusual campaign promise by holding his new government's first cabinet meeting in the heart of this troubled city of one million. The center-right leader's appearance is a nod to the entrenched social ills that afflict Naples - most notably a trash-collection emergency that has left rubbish heaps piling up on sidewalks. Naples' litany of urban blights have made life increasingly unpleasant for locals, and tarnished the international image of both the city and the entire nation...
With the excuse of fighting infectious diseases, the regime launched Operation Murambatsvina in 2005, clearing slums across the nation under the slogan of “driving out the rubbish.” In effect, it was mainly targeted against the support base of the Movement for Democratic Change, a party that eventually challenged Mugabe in the March 29 elections...
...filmmakers employed some poetic license: The movie's love affair is fictional - "complete rubbish" says biographer Castan. "The historical Richthofen was the James Dean of World War I, an idol of his time," says Castan. "[But] he had no affairs with women. He also did not drink and did not visit brothels...
...selected to contest a seat in Britain's House of Commons three weeks before her 18th birthday. "When you go to France they're nicer to you in restaurants, on the streets and on transport. When I go around Britain on the railways, I get treated like rubbish by guards and officials...
...Romano Prodi's center-left government in January was triggered in the land of the Camorra. Shortly before the fall of his government, the latest in a string of shutdowns of Campania's trash collection - a business in which the Mob has long had its fingers - left tons of rubbish piled up on Naples' streets for weeks on end. Prodi had allowed the governor of Campania to stay afloat despite his failure to manage the trash emergency. The Prime Minister didn't see the situation in Naples for what it really was: a chilling lesson that government ends up cornered...