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'Holidays are a risk': Travel warning as COVID-19 cases rise in Italy

Italy recorded 552 confirmed cases on Friday, a 38% increase on the previous day and the highest daily tally since late May.

07/08/2020

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Evacuations ordered with Alps glacier in danger of collapse

Dozens of residents and holidaymakers were told to evacuate an area on the Italian side of Mont Blanc as a glacier threatened to collapse.

07/08/2020

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Alps glacier threatens collapse in Italian valley

A 500,000 cubic metre chunk of the Planpincieux Glacier is on the verge of breaking away because of high temperatures.

06/08/2020

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Italy threatens Ryanair with flight ban over COVID-19 safety rules

Italy's civil aviation authority accused the Irish carrier of "systematically" not complying with rules imposed to curb COVID-19 transmissions at airports.

05/08/2020

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Italy's vanishing migrants found abandoned outside the EU

National authorities and lawyers are embroiled in debate after migrants crossing into Italy were found to be ushered into vans, deported to several countries, and ultimately abandoned outside the EU.

04/08/2020

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Italy inaugurates new bridge after deadly collapse

Italy inaugurated a new bridge in Genoa in place of one that collapsed and killed 43 people two years ago.

04/08/2020

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How did Italy manage to build a replacement Genoa bridge so quickly?

The new San Giorgio bridge in Genoa was built in just 15 months — quite an achievement in Italy where such work usually takes more than a decade.

03/08/2020

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Watch: Italy opens new Genoa bridge two years after fatal collapse

Almost two years since Italy's Genoa bridge collapsed, killing 43 people, a new structure opens in its place on Monday.

03/08/2020

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Italy commemorates Bologna Massacre victims 40 years on

Italy commemorates the victims of the Bologna Massacre - the most deadly attack on its soil since the end of the Second World War.

02/08/2020

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Italy's far-right leader Salvini loses his parliamentary immunity

He could now face trial for refusing to let a rescue ship carrying scores of migrants dock on the Italian island of Lampedusa last year.

30/07/2020

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Andrea Bocelli 'felt humiliated and offended' by Italy's lockdown

The tenor also cast doubts over the "gravity" of the coronavirus pandemic.

28/07/2020

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Italy sends military to Sicily as hundreds of migrants flee quarantine

Officials have said that the migrants were found and tested negative for the coronavirus.

28/07/2020

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Coronavirus consolation as open-air opera lifts spirits in Naples

Naples is taking opera into the town square to thank its medical workers – and bring hope to residents.

27/07/2020

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Italian police station shut amid 'torture' and 'drug-dealing' charges

"Nothing happened there was licit', the prosecutor of Piacenza said.

22/07/2020

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Relief in Italy and Greece after EU coronavirus recovery deal

There was a lot of wrangling at the EU summit over the size and terms of the coronavirus recovery fund. For once, the hard-hit southern states don’t feel like they’re losing out.

22/07/2020

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Italy: Divers struggle to free whale from illegally cast fishing net

Italian coastguards and volunteers have been working for three days to cut the net from around the mammal.

20/07/2020

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An artist in Italy has carved this huge portrait of Joe Biden

A land artist is helping to cultivate support for US presidential hopeful Joe Biden after carving a picture of him in an Italian field.

20/07/2020

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Rescue operations underway to save sperm whale trapped in fishing net

Authorities blamed the incident on unlawful fishing, as they seized over 100 km of illegal fishing nets since January.

19/07/2020

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Rome honours Oscar-winning soundtrack composer Ennio Morricone

The City Council voted to rename one of its concert halls after Morricone as his soundtrack to the film Once Upon A Time in America was played.

18/07/2020

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Italian police intercept coffee beans stuffed with cocaine

The package, sent from Colombia, contained 500 beans that had been cut open, stuffed with cocaine powder and carefully fastened closed with dark brown tape.

17/07/2020

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Dozens swim to safety after floods trap cars in Palermo underpass

Mud and water swept away the vehicles and left them blocked in a highway underpass.

16/07/2020

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'Dream come true': Italy's gesture 100 years after fascist arson

The Narodni dom was a state-of-the-art cultural building. Italian fascists burnt it down in 1920 amid tensions between Italy and Yugoslavia.

13/07/2020

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Venice tests system of 78 inflatable flood barriers

The inflatable barriers are supposed to protect the city from tides as high as three metres.

10/07/2020

My Europe Series

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