CNN — As a boat carrying 400 migrants drifted, out of fuel, along a perilous migration route in the central Mediterranean last week, Italian authorities led a major rescue operation following the reported refusal of Maltese authorities to retrieve those on board. Passengers’ desperate pleas for aid went unheeded for nearly a week before they … Read more
At least 19 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa died when their boat sank off the coast of Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a human rights group said on Sunday. In the past four days, five migrant boats have sunk off the southern city of Sfax, leaving 67 missing and nine dead, … Read more
One of the world’s largest pizza chains, the US-based Domino’s Pizza, has formally given up on its aspirations of gaining a foothold in the country that invented pizza. The company closed its last stores in Rome and Milan last year, and, according to media reports on Thursday, the company’s Italian franchise partner, ePizza, has begun … Read more
CNN — At least 63 people including children and women died after a wooden boat carrying migrants from Turkey broke apart on rocks off the coast of Calabria on Sunday, Italian authorities said. More bodies were being pulled from the Mediterranean Sea on Monday, where bad weather hampered search efforts and made the field of … Read more
Italian Red Cross volunteers and coast guards recover a body after a migrant boat broke apart in rough seas, at a beach near Cutro, southern Italy, on February 26, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Rescue crews searched by sea and air Monday for the dozens of people believed still missing from a shipwreck off Italy’s … Read more
Image for representation. | Photo Credit: AP More than 30 people have died and more than 40 have survived a migrant boat shipwreck in southern Italy, a spokesman for the Italian firefighters’ service told Reuters on February 26. The death toll “has surpassed 30,” Danilo Maida, spokesman for the firefighters in the Calabria region, said. … Read more
Venice Reuters — Weeks of dry winter weather have raised concerns that Italy could face another drought after last summer’s emergency, with the Alps having received less than half of their normal snowfall, according to scientists and environmental groups. The warning comes as Venice, where flooding is normally the primary concern, faces unusually low tides … Read more
A view of people on a road after an earthquake in Antakya in Hatay province, Turkey, February 20, 2023. | Photo Credit: REUTERS New 6.4 magnitude earthquake hits Turkey’s Hatay province A 6.4-magnitude earthquake was recorded on February 20, 2023, in Turkey’s southern province of Hatay, the hardest hit by a February 6 tremor which … Read more
A requirement for banks in the European Union to issue debt to plug depleted capital in a crisis is particuarly challenging for lenders from Greece, Italy and Portugal, the bloc’s banking watchdog said on Monday. After taxpayers had to bail out undercapitalised lenders in the global financial crisis more than a decade ago, banks have … Read more
Rome CNN — One person has died and four people, including Spanish soccer player Pablo Mari, were “seriously injured” after a stabbing attack on the outskirts of the Italian city of Milan on Thursday, according to Italian national police. The suspected attacker has been arrested, police said. “A mentally unstable man decided to stab people. … Read more