Cable car crash kills 14 at Lago Maggiore
Fourteen people, including at least one child, have been killed after a cable car crash on a mountain near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy on Sunday. Another child is seriously injured.
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Flooded Italian village Curon emerges from lake
Works at an Italian reservoir reveal Curon village, submerged for years.
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Etna is stirring
Etna shows signs of awakening with a small lava flow and cloud, which have already dispersed.
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Wild boar surround woman and steal her shopping
Wild boar surrounded a woman who had just left a supermarket near Rome. They steal her shopping, igniting a debate about their presence in Italy’s towns and cities. The incident came to light following a video posted on social media on Thursday. It shows the boars cornering the woman in a car park in the […]
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Stolen Roman frescoes returned to Pompeii
Illegally trafficked in the 1970s, the six fragments are now back in the Pompeii archaeological park. Italy’s cultural protection police squad recovered the pieces during investigations in 2012 and 2020. Three of the first century AD relics are believed to have been removed from the walls of two Roman villas in Stabiae. That was in […]
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Vacation and vaccination in Sicily this summer?
The president of the Sicilian region, Musumeci, declares Sicily is ready to welcome visitors. There’s also the offer of vaccination in Sicily, too. In an interview with Tgcom24, the president of the Sicialian region – Musumeci – declared, “For the summer we are ready to welcome and vaccinate tourists too”. “We weren’t categorised as a […]
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German migrant ship captain won’t stand trial
A German migrant ship captain defied an Italian naval blockade to bring African migrants to port in June 2019. A judge in the Sicilian city of Agrigento ruled she will not stand trial.
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