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Italy

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

Italy

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

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

23/07/2020

Italy

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

Italy

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

Italy

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

Italy

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

Italy

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

Italy

'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

Italy

Venice tests system of 78 inflatable flood barriers

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

11/07/2020

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

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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

Earth 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

The Cube

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.

26/06/2020

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