MILAN – Italy has ordered COVID-19 antigen swabs and virus sequencing for all travellers coming from China, where cases are surging, the health minister said on Wednesday. Italy, which was the first nation in Europe to be hit hard by the virus in February 2020 after it emerged in China, is now the first to…
San Casciano discovery hailed as “most important since Riace Bronzes”. Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed 24 ancient bronze statues at the San Casciano dei Bagni thermal bath site in a discovery described as “exceptional” by Italy’s culture minister Gennaro Sangiuliano. The perfectly intact statues emerged from the mud and water at the bottom of a large Roman…
Greetings from Tyler, We’re all seeing the catastrophic devastation along the path of Hurricane Ian. You can only imagine the emotional impact of seeing your home leveled and everything destroyed. But people have not even been able to return to pick through whatever remains. The clean-up will take years. The storm raged for some…
‘It wasn’t a water bomb, it was a tsunami,’ mayor says of rainwater that flooded Marche region Flash floods swept through several towns Friday in hilly central Italy after hours of exceptionally heavy rain, leaving 10 people dead and at least four missing. Dozens of survivors scrambled onto rooftops or up into trees to await…
Wildfires on Turkey’s southern coast have killed at least eight and forced tourists and residents to evacuate. Italy and Greece are also fighting fires amid an extreme heat wave. Temperatures up to 45 degrees Celsius have made battling the blazes more difficult. Source: https://www.dw.com/en/heat-wave-fuels-wildfires-in-turkey-italy-and-greece/av-58738055 [Disclaimer]
Ireland and Lithuania have each agreed to take 10. Luxembourg has also offered to help. (Photo: noborder network) Calls in early May for EU states to help relocate asylum seekers from Italy have largely been ignored. The European Commission had appealed for national capitals to help Italy, after some 1,400 people arrived on the Italian…
ROME (Reuters) – Police have arrested 334 people in one of the largest anti-mob operations ever seen in Italy, highlighting the growing reach of the ‘Ndrangheta mafia, prosecutors said on Thursday. The ‘Ndrangheta is based in the southern region of Calabria, the toe of Italy’s boot, and has surpassed Sicily’s more famous Cosa Nostra to…
Ex-premier says Conte not doing enough to fix country’s issues Resignation triggers crisis with no clear solution in sight The exit of junior coalition partner in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic deals a blow to Giuseppe Conte’s government. Matteo Renzi speaks to attendees after a news conference in Rome, Italy, January 13 2021. Picture:…
At least three people have been killed by flooding on the Italian island of Sardinia, according to authorities and local media. In Bitti, a town in the province of Nuoro, streets were turned into rivers of mud that covered cars and flooded cellars. “The situation in Bitti has been particularly dramatic,” regional environment councillor Gianni…