An evacuation plan for the Campi Flegrei volcanic and seismic zone is to be drawn up within three months. This is according to the draft of the decree on the Phlegraean Fields, developed by the Ministry for Civil Protection.
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Italy was in shock on Wednesday after 21 people died in a Mestre bus tragedy. On Tuesday evening, a bus plunged from an overpass above a railway line between the Venice districts of Mestre and Marghera.
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Hundreds of small tremors have shaken the densely populated Campi Flegrei, volcanic area west of the Italian city of Naples in recent weeks. As a result, the government is rapidly redrafting mass evacuation plans, even though experts don’t see an imminent risk of eruption.
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Several Ultima Generazione (Last Generation, UG) climate crisis activists were fined €3,300 each for public indecency. They took part in a naked flash mob on a central Turin bridge on Saturday.
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From October to December, Trieste is celebrating its ‘inadequate’ literary hero Zeno Cosini. Zeno is the protagonist of Italo Svevo’s great modernist masterpiece Zeno’s Conscience, which came out 100 years ago.
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The Medici Chapels have undergone extensive restorations. Along with a new exit to help streamline visitor flow, the Lorraine Crypt is now reopened. In November, Michelangelo’s secret room will open for the first time.
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A 4.8-magnitude earthquake rattled parts of Tuscany early Monday. Mayors of the affected areas say there could be hundreds of displaced families as a result.
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni visited Lampedusa on Sunday to see the scale of the migrant emergency.
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Once again Venice is saved from making it onto the UNESCO Heritage blacklist. Whilst Venice’s mayor cheered the resolution, environmentalists and scientists were dismayed by the outcome.
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The island of Lampedusa is at the forefront of migrant arrivals in Italy. From Tuesday, a flotilla of dangerously flimsy boats delayed by bad weather in Tunisia arrived in a 24-hour period. The total number of migrants in that period was around 6,800.
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