Category : Italy
Refugee NGOs attack EU shipwreck ‘double standard’ after Bayesian effort
Organisations who try to save lives in Mediterranean say Sicily response showed what can be done The tremendous resources and global attention dedicated to the...
Sicily yacht sinking: four bodies reportedly found – updates
Italian rescue divers searching for software tycoon Mike Lynch and five others have found four bodies, sources tell Reuters Reuters, citing a source, reports that...
‘We didn’t see it coming’: the tumultuous Sicilian night that took down the Bayesian
Witnesses tell of ‘absurd tragedy’ and a mother describes how she fought to save her child from drowning UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch among missing...
UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch among missing in Sicily yacht sinking
Four Britons, two Americans and a Canadian missing and one body found after superyacht carrying 22 sank in storm Who is Mike Lynch, the tech...
‘The land is becoming desert’: drought pushes Sicily’s farming heritage to the brink
While tourists flock to the Italian island in greater numbers, a water crisis is intensifying for its rural population For the first time in four...
‘It’s a proper jungle’: Rome’s rat and snake infestation blamed on waste problems
Pest control expert says warmer winters help creatures such as oriental hornets, snakes and rats thrive in the city A Rome zoologist says the Italian...
Neighbours turn on each other in Portofino air-con crackdown
Some residents of wealthy Italian village reportedly passing on photos to police who are hunting illegal units It is baking hot in Portofino, but the...
Venice cuts size of tourist parties to 25 to reduce impact on city
Tourists face fines of €25-500 if they fail to comply with measures, which also ban the use of loudspeakers Venice will limit the size of...
Ancient Roman Appian Way becomes Italy’s 60th Unesco world heritage site
Highway that consolidated Roman empire joins modernist Romanian sculptures as latest sites added to list Italy’s Via Appia Antica, or Appian Way, the earliest and...
