Tag: Italy

• Tuesday, December 15th 2020 - 08:29 UTC

  Long food queues in Italy's financial capital and richest city of the country

  

  Long queues have been forming outside food banks and help centers in Italy's financial capital Milan as the economic devastation caused by the coronavirus has deepened before Christmas.

• Wednesday, December 9th 2020 - 08:01 UTC

  Venice off guard and under water as flood gates did not function on time

  

  Venice was underwater on Tuesday as heavy rain and strong winds pushed into the lagoon city, catching the authorities off guard before they could activate the huge flood barriers that were rolled out two months ago.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Costa Cruises cancels all South America 2020/21 cruises, but accepts booking for 2021/22 season

  

  Costa Cruises resumed sailing in Italy but also took the step of canceling its 2020-21 season in South America. All South America cruises from November 2020 to April 2021 were canceled by the Costa Fascinosa, Costa Luminosa, and Costa Pacifica.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2020 - 08:46 UTC

  Mafia boss on life sentence bit off and swallowed a prison's guard finger

  

  A Sicilian mafia boss serving a life sentence bit off and swallowed a prison guard's finger during an altercation, an Italian news report said. Giuseppe Fanara, 60, who is serving a life sentence at Rome's Rebibbia prison, attacked seven guards in June when they came to inspect his cell, the daily Il Messagero reported.

• Wednesday, August 26th 2020 - 09:18 UTC

  Italy forges closer relations with China and cautions on a re surge of a “cold war”

  

  Italy and China need to forge closer ties, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Tuesday, potentially putting Rome at odds with Washington, which has raised alarm over Beijing's economic ambitions.

• Saturday, August 22nd 2020 - 08:35 UTC

  Lula da Silva apologizes for protecting Italian militant who confessed several murders

  

  Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he regretted protecting communist militant Cesare Battisti from extradition to his native Italy after the ex-fugitive confessed to four murders.

• Thursday, August 13th 2020 - 07:09 UTC

  Italy's cruise industry begins sailing in the Mediterranean on August 15

  

  Italy's cruise industry is preparing to sail again in Mediterranean waters, hoping to help jumpstart the country's economy while restoring the reputation of the beleaguered global sector. MSC Cruises, a privately owned company based in Geneva, will resume operations with two departures from Italy this month, it said over the weekend.

• Tuesday, August 4th 2020 - 10:20 UTC

  Antibody testing in Italy shows 2,5% of the population developed coronavirus

  

  Almost 1.5 million people in Italy or 2.5% of the population have developed coronavirus antibodies, a figure six times more than official numbers reported, according to a survey from statistics agency Istat on Monday.

• Tuesday, August 4th 2020 - 09:24 UTC

  Genoa opens new bridge to replace a collapsed viaduct that killed 43 people

  

  Italy inaugurated a sleek new bridge in Genoa on Monday, though relatives of the 43 people killed when the old viaduct collapsed said the pomp and ceremony risked overshadowing the tragedy.

• Saturday, July 11th 2020 - 08:11 UTC

  Italy bans travelers arriving from Brazil, Chile and Peru

  

  Italy on Thursday banned travelers from Brazil and 12 other countries it considers to pose a high risk of Covid-19 transmission. The full list comprises Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Kuwait, North Macedonia, Moldova, Oman, Panama and Peru.