Deepa Babington

Position: Correspondent, Italy
Based in Rome, I write about Italian business. I was previously based in New York, where I covered energy and finance.

Articles

Suicide attacks down, extortion up in Iraq's Mosul November 27, 01:01pm EST 

* Ideology-based insurgency shifts to organised crime * Reports of extortion, bombs placed in front of businesses By Deepa Babington MOSUL, Iraq, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Drive-by shootings, murders and extortion are the new calling cards of a weakened insurgency ...  Full Article 

Blog Posts

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Quake tours, spartan rooms at no-frills G8 summit

    Hiking through rubble-strewn streets, taking in a quake exhibit or bedding down in a concrete police compound -- leaders at this week's G8 summit in the Italian town of L'Aquila  are in for a ...  Full Article | Comments [1] 

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A month after quake, gratitude turns to impatience

A month after an earthquake killed nearly 300 people in Italy, initial goodwill towards authorities for their swift response appears to be giving way to anger.  Full Article | Comments [2] 

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Italy's hard-left at the Hard Rock

Italy's far-left alliance of Communists and Greens may not conjure up images of glitz and New York steaks, but leader Fausto Bertinotti has nevertheless picked the Hard Rock Cafe on Rome's fashionable ...  Full Article