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By Ella IDE Marilina Barreca has two grim options: feed her cows tainted fodder or set them to graze on barren hillsides as Sicily battles a crop-devastating drought which is sucking reservoirs dry. Regional authorities in the southern Italian island declared a state of emergency earlier this month, after the winter rains hoped for following last year’s punishingly hot summer failed. “The situation is tragic,” Barreca told AFP as she looked out over the Madonie […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Sicily braced for the arrival of a cyclone Thursday, the second this week after a deadly storm hammered the southern Italian island, killing three people. The Mediterranean cyclone known as a “medicane” was set to reach Sicily’s eastern coast and the tip of mainland Calabria between Thursday evening and Friday morning, Italian public research institute ISPRA said. The civil protection unit placed eastern Sicily under an orange alert in anticipation of […]
(Eagle News) – The Department of Foreign Affairs said that no Filipino was reported affected by the eruption of Mount Etna and the more than 100 seismic quakes recorded in Sicily, Italy. DFA Assistant Secretary Elmer Cato said that as of 11:45 p.m.of December 25, the DFA has not received any report of Filipinos who were affected by the quakes following Etna’s eruption. The department continues to monitor the situation in Italy, where there are […]
SIGONELLA, Italy (Reuters) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Sicily for his second Group of Seven (G7) meeting on Thursday (May 25). Italy chose to host the summit in Taormina, on the cliffs of eastern Sicily, to concentrate minds on Europe’s migrant crisis and to seek ways of developing Africa’s economy to hold back the human tide. The six-year old Syrian conflict and North Korea’s nuclear ambitions are other hot-button issues. Potential disagreements […]
ROME, Italy (AFP) — Ten people were injured by flying rock and lava after Mount Etna, Europe’s biggest active volcano, burst into life on Thursday, according to a BBC journalist and others caught up in a terrifying drama on the upper slopes. The 10 suffered minor burns, cuts and bruises and six were hospitalized. German volcanologist Boris Behncke described on his Facebook page how the explosion was triggered by a build-up of steam after molten […]
