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ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italy has ordered North Korea’s incoming new ambassador to leave the country in a protest over Kim Jong-Un’s missile launches and nuclear tests. Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano announced the move in an interview with Italian daily La Repubblica, published on Sunday. “We have taken the firm decision to interrupt the accreditation procedure. The ambassador will have to leave the country,” Alfano said. “We want to make Pyongyang understand that isolation is […]
by Ella Ide Agence France Presse PISA, Italy (AFP) — Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli’s voice soars to the rafters of the Tuscan theater, but all eyes are on the orchestral conductor beside him — a robot with an apparent penchant for Verdi. The concert in the heart of Pisa is a world first, with two mechanical “arms” conducting live music at the grand finale of the first International Festival of Robotics. The Swiss-designed YuMi sweeps […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — At least eight people died in flooding after violent rains lashed the Tuscan city of Livorno over the weekend, Italian rescue services said Tuesday. The body of a 67-year-old man, who had been reported missing since Sunday, was found on Tuesday, while the body of a 34-year-old woman had been found the day before. Heavy rainstorms swept across the country overnight from Saturday to Sunday, with Livorno bearing the brunt of the flooding. Four […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — At least five people have died in violent rainstorms sweeping across Italy on Sunday, with the Tuscan city of Livorno taking the brunt of the flooding, fire services said. Four people from the same family were found dead in a flooded house in the city, where 40 centimetres (one foot, 4 inches) of rainfall in four hours transformed streets into rivers and washed away cars. The Corriere della Sera daily […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Italian motorcycling legend Valentino Rossi broke his leg in a crash in training on Thursday to dash his hopes of a 10th world title this season. The 38-year-old will undergo surgery “as soon as possible”, his Yamaha team announced in a statement. Rossi was on board an endurance bike when the accident occurred. “Valentino Rossi was involved in an enduro accident during a training activity close to his hometown (of Urbino) […]
NABEUL, Tunisia (AFP) — Vast underwater Roman ruins have been discovered off northeast Tunisia, apparently confirming a theory that the city of Neapolis was partly submerged by a tsunami in the 4th century AD. “It’s a major discovery,” Mounir Fantar, the head of a Tunisian-Italian archaeological mission which made the find off the coast of Nabeul, told AFP. He said an underwater expedition had found streets, monuments and around 100 tanks used to produce garum, […]
VENICE, Italy (Reuters) — A gala ceremony and Alexander Payne’s “Downsizing,” a satire about shrinking humans to five inches tall as a solution to over-population and global warming, opened the Venice film festival on Wednesday (August 30). Payne and his leading stars, Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig and Hong Chao were given a warm applause ahead of the film’s world premiere in front of guests including Italian President Sergio Mattarella. Also on hand at the ceremony […]
by Angus Mackinnon Agence France-Presse VENICE, Italy (AFP) — The 74th Venice film festival gets underway Wednesday with Alexander Payne’s sci-fi satire “Downsizing” in the high-profile opening slot that is increasingly coveted as a launchpad for the Oscars. Starring Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig, “Sideways” director Payne’s latest quirky creation is a tale of a lower middle class couple in the US midwest. But the downsizing of the title is not a reference to job […]
by Ella Ide Agence France Presse CASAMICCIOLA TERME, Italy (AFP) — Eleven-year old Ciro, the last child to be pulled from the rubble on the Italian island of Ischia Tuesday, saved his little brother’s life when the deadly earthquake struck, rescuers workers said. Firefighters had to dig with their bare hands to reach the youngster, who had been buried along with his seven-year old brother Mattias and seven-month old half-brother Pasquale. “It was Ciro […]
ISCHIA, Italy (Reuters) — Fire crews rescued a baby boy from rubble after an earthquake struck the tourist-packed Italian island of Ischia, off the coast of Naples, on Monday night. A picture released by the Fire Brigade shows the baby in the arms of a fireman in the early hours of Tuesday morning (August 22). The Brigade’s Twitter account described the rescue in the town of Casamicciola as a ‘miracle’. The quake of magnitude 4.0 […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — A 4.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Italian holiday island of Ischia late Monday, causing destruction that left one person dead and one missing at peak tourist season, authorities said. A woman was killed in Casamicciola, in the north of the small tourist island, hit by debris that fell from a church, with around 25 people injured in the quake, for the most part lightly. At a press conference early Tuesday, the head […]
by Ljubomir Milasin / Sabine Wibaux Agence France-Presse Italy’s Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni criticized fellow European Union nations on Wednesday for leaving his country to grapple with the migrant crisis, despite pledges made by France and Germany. Gentiloni met with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Trieste before an annual Western Balkans summit. Italy took in more than 3,500 migrants rescued off the coast of Libya in just the past few […]
