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How the Italian mafia is cashing in on COVID-19

In this week's Unreported Europe, Monica Pinna goes to Naples to find out how Camorra is capitalising on the social and economic crisis caused by Covid.

10/07/2020

Travel News

COVID-19 travel: Italy bans arrivals from 13 'at risk' countries

As the hospital in Italy's first hotspot declares itself COVID-free for the first time, authorities are taking cautious action to avoid a second wave of coronavirus.

10/07/2020

Italy

Ocean Viking: 180 migrants begin disembarking rescue ship in Sicily

After over a week at sea, the first individuals began disembarking the Ocean Viking aid vessel at a Sicilian port late on Monday night.

07/07/2020

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Venice's La Fenice opera house reinvents itself for post-lockdown era

Musicians played where once the audience would have sat.

06/07/2020

Italy

Pink ice spotted in Alpine glacier fuels concerns over melting

Scientists are investigating the appearance of pink ice in an Alpine glacier in northern Italy – looking at the relationship between algae growing inside it and climate change.

06/07/2020

Green News

Pink snow in the Italian Alps could be linked to global warming

Ice could be melting faster in the Alps due to a peculiar plant causing the mountains to go from white to pink.

06/07/2020

World

Musicians honour Syrian world heritage site with performance in Italy

In 2015, ISIS ravaged the Syrian archeological site of Palmyra. Five years on, Italian conductor Riccardo Muti leads a concert honouring the UNESCO World Heritage site.

06/07/2020

Italy

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly composer Ennio Morricone dies aged 91

He composed the famous coyote-howl theme for the iconic film “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”.

06/07/2020

Italy

Stranded Ocean Viking migrants still waiting to disembark in Sicily

Most of them have been at sea for more than a week.

05/07/2020

Italy

'We are ready': Salvini calls for election in anti-government protest

The anti-government rally was joined by League's allies Brothers of Italy and Forza Italia.

04/07/2020

Italy

'World's largest seizure': Italy finds haul of ISIS-made amphetamines

The haul is worth about €1 billion and came in the form of 84 million Captagon tablets

01/07/2020

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Entangled sperm whale liberated from fishing net by Italian Coastguard

A ten-metre-long male sperm whale, which was entangled in fishing nets, has been freed by the Italian coast guard in the Mediterranean Sea. The illegal fishing net had prevented the whale from moving its tail fin.

29/06/2020

Europe Decoded

Migrant rescue ships facing new challenges amid COVID-19 pandemic

Vessels have been forced to introduce radical changes in a bid to contain the virus among those rescued at sea.

25/06/2020

World

Italy care home negligence probe: 18 bodies ordered to be exhumed

Prosecutors are investigating how Italy’s care homes handled the coronavirus crisis, just as new clusters of infection break out across the country.

24/06/2020

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Rope-climbing workers help restore Rome landmark

They climbed the Basilica of Saint Mary of the Altar of Heaven to renovate its wooden roof beams after rain and wind damage.

24/06/2020

Italy

Migrant rescue ships return to the Mediterranean after lockdown

As they return to the seas for the first time since April, rescue ship operators say migrants fleeing Libya's humanitarian crisis are undeterred by Europe's coronavirus outbreak

23/06/2020

Italy

Could COVID-19 change Rome’s economic reliance on tourism?

For years the Italian capital economy has relied on tourism - a sector eviscerated by the coronavirus pandemic. Some locals in Trastevere think it’s time for a rethink.

22/06/2020

Italy

Paralympic champion and former F1 driver "stable" after crash

The condition of Alex Zanardi remains "serious". He underwent brain surgery following a crash with a lorry on Friday.

20/06/2020

Italy

COVID-19 may have been present in Italy as early as December 2019

An Italian National Institute of Health study has found that traces of coronavirus were present in wastewater samples from December 2019 in Turin and Milan.

19/06/2020

Italy

Milan won't remove statue of journalist who had Eritrean child bride

Black Lives Matters protesters in Italy have targetted the statue of the late Indro Montanelli.

15/06/2020

Italy

Italian farmers pay for workers' flights

Farmers in Italy have been paying for seasonal workers to return from abroad to harvest crops or risk bankruptcy

14/06/2020

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Statue of famous Italian journalist vandalised in Milan

Indro Montanelli, who died in 2001, acknowledged having had a 12-year-old Eritrean bride while stationed in the Italian colony in the 1930s.

14/06/2020

Italy

Coronavirus: Tourists back in Venice for Doge's Palace reopening

Souvenir shops and restaurants have largely reopened and the tourists are back on the gondolas, but authorities call for a more sustainable tourism model.

13/06/2020

Italy

COVID-19: Italy prosecutors question PM Conte over lockdown 'delay'

Families of COVID-19 victims claim business concerns delayed lockdowns being imposed on two Lombardy towns.

12/06/2020

Italy

Banksy artwork stolen from Bataclan found in Italy

The image of a girl in mourning had been painted on one of the exits of the Paris concert hall to commemorate the victims of the November 2015 terror attacks.

11/06/2020

Italy

Entire ancient Roman town mapped out by radar technology

Researchers think the new technique could revolutionize the study of ancient settlements.

09/06/2020