MILAN (AP) — The Italian Coast Guard rescued 22 people and recovered nine bodies after a smugglers’ boat capsized in a storm about 50 kilometers ( about 30 miles) south of the island of Lampedusa, authorities said Thursday. Survivors indicated that the steel bottom boat had departed from Sfax, Tunisia overnight Sunday carrying 46 people from Guinea, Burkina Faso, Mali …
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FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Amanda Knox is again defending herself in an Italian court in a slander case that has the potential to remove the last legal stain against her, following her exoneration nine years ago in the 2007 murder of her British roommate, Meredith Kercher. Despite a murder conviction against a man whose DNA and footprints were found at …
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MILAN (AP) — Amanda Knox faces another trial for slander this week in Italy in a case that could remove the last legal stain against her, eight years after Italy’s highest court threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate. Knox, who was a 20-year-old student when she was accused along with her then-boyfriend of murdering …
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An explosion Tuesday at a hydroelectric plant in northern Italy killed at least three workers and seriously injured five others, a regional fire chief said. At least four other people were missing. The blast occurred between 100 and 200 feet below the water level at the Bergi plant in the Apennine Mountains south of Bologna. The explosion collapsed two levels …
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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis met Monday with relatives of hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, marking the six-month anniversary of the attack in southern Israel with an hour-long audience. The Vatican released photos of the encounter, showing relatives of several of the hostages sitting in a semicircle in front of Francis in his private library in the …
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ROME (AP) — Police on Monday arrested a Tajik national accused of being an active member of the Islamic State group after he landed at Rome’s international airport on a flight from the Netherlands, authorities said. WHAT ISIS MEANS WHEN IT SAYS IT WILL ‘CONQUER ROME’ Police have arrested a Tajik national accused of being an active member of the …
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Tourists in Italy have been treated to quite the show as Mount Etna, the largest active volcano in Europe, has been blowing spectacular “smoke rings” into the sky since last week. The rare phenomenon, known as “volcanic vortex rings,” is generated by the combination of rapid gas release and the vent shape spewed out of a new crater that opened …
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MILAN (AP) — Day-trippers to the fabled canal city of Venice who fail to pay 5 euros ($5.43) to enter the lagoon city’s historic center during a time-limited pilot program launching later this month will face fines starting at 10 times the entrance fee, officials said Thursday. Venice announced last year it would launch the long-discussed day-tripper fee after the …
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Police in Italy, Austria, Romania and Slovakia arrested 22 people Thursday as part of an investigation into the suspected siphoning of hundreds of millions of euros in post-pandemic relief funds from the European Union. The $650 million were part of Italy’s post-pandemic money, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office said. The EPPO said it suspects a criminal organization of having diverted …
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More than half of the global population — at least 4.5 billion people — did not have coverage or access to essential health services in 2021. That’s according to the World Health Organization (WHO). April 7, 2024, marks the WHO’s annual World Health Day. Their chosen theme for this year? “My health, my right.” This international awareness day occurs every …
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