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ROME, Italy (AFP) — At least three people have died after a powerful earthquake struck central Italy in the early hours of Wednesday, local media reported. The first confirmed victims of a quake which devastated dozens of villages were an elderly couple whose home collapsed at Pescara del Tronto in the Marche region to the east of the epicentre, national broadcaster Rai and other media reported. The AGI news agency said at least one other person […]
by Giovanni GREZZI with Ella IDE in Rome ANDRIA, Italy (AFP) — Relatives of victims of one of Italy’s worst rail accidents gathered to identify their dead Wednesday, as rescue workers at the scene of the head-on collision between two trains dismantled the wreckage in search of missing bodies. Shell-shocked families at the Policlinico hospital morgue in the southern Italy city of Bari were being called in turns to search among the dead for their […]
by Giovanni GREZZI with Ella IDE in Rome BARI, Italy (AFP) — At least 22 people were killed Tuesday and dozens injured in a head-on collision between two passenger trains in the southern Italian region of Puglia, in one of the country’s worst rail accidents in recent years. Emergency services raced to extract people from the wreckage of smashed carriages thrown across a single track into olive groves near the town of Andria, in what […]
SULZANO, Italy (Reuters) — After under two years of planning but a personal cost of 15 million euros ($17 million), Bulgarian-born artist Christo, is set to inaugurate his latest art installation, this time in Italy. The project is entitled ‘The Floating Piers’, and it will allow people to literally walk on water. With a bird’s-eye view from the mountains overlooking Lake Iseo, 100 kilometers (62 miles) east of Milan, the concept of the 81-year-old’s latest […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Five key facts about the election of Rome’s new mayor on Sunday: A woman at last Every king, consul, emperor and pope who has run Rome since it was founded two and a half millennia ago has been male: that looks set to change with Virginia Raggi the runaway favourite to be the next mayor. Female mayors club Raggi headed the first round with 35 percent of votes, well ahead of […]
by Angus MACKINNON ROME, Italy (AFP) — From kings to consuls, emperors to popes, the rulers of Rome have always been men. Until now. Voters in the Italian capital return to the polls Sunday and all the signs are that they are set to elect Virginia Raggi as the first female mayor of the Eternal City. Raggi, a 37-year-old lawyer and local councillor, has leapt from anonymity to become one of the best-known faces in […]
Milan, Italy (AFP) — An extra-time winner from late substitute Alvaro Morata saw Juventus to their 11th Italian Cup with a 1-0 triumph over AC Milan on Saturday. It means Juventus become the first Italian team to win successive league and Cup doubles, a year after ending a 20-year wait to achieve the feat. AC Milan’s defeat means the seven-time European champions failed to qualify for Europe next season. Sixth place finishers Sassuolo will be handed […]
Members of the Iglesia Ni Cristo in Italy, Southern Europe showed their talents in sports in today’s EVM Cup – Italy edition. The event started with a special greeting to brother Eduardo V. Manalo headed by brother Joel Narciso, the District Minister of Southern Europe, together with the ministers & evangelical workers assigned in different congregations from all over Italy. Angela Garcia reports
U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter won agreement from defense ministers from France and five other nations on Wednesday to intensify the campaign against IS militants in Iraq and Syria. A bilateral meeting was held firstly between Ashton Carter and Jean-Yves Le Drian, France’s Defense Minister, to discuss the issue before the closed-door meeting among the defense ministers from the other five countries, including the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, Italy and Germany. This is the […]
MIGRANTS with severe burns received treatment at a medical center on the Italian island of Lampedusa on Friday (April 17), hours after they were rescued at sea by the Italian coastguard. A dinghy carrying between 60-70 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa was intercepted by the coastguard who found many of the people on board suffering from severe burns, including young children. One 25-year-old woman had died of her injuries onboard. “Certainly there are severe burns. At least […]
(Reuters) – The world’s most famous bachelor, George Clooney, broke a vow to remain single on Saturday and married human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin during a weekend of lavish celebrations in Venice. The Italian city of gondolas and palazzi looked like Hollywood on the Adriatic as A-list guests cruised between luxury hotels for the extravaganza, billed as the party of the year even as details were kept largely secret. Clooney’s representative, Stan Rosenfield, broke a long silence […]
