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George Clooney's villa in Lake Cuomo, Italy is under attack from the past. A 500-pound explosive dating from the World War II was found under 15 yards of water just in front of the actor's $40 million, 30-bed mansion. On Wednesday, experts retrieved and disabled the device, along with mines and other raw explosives, and closed down the entire town of Laglio around the villa while exhuming the weapons, thought to be dropped from a World War II bomber.

Read it at The Telegraph