https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A beam of silver light erases scrawled black letters on Florence's historic Ponte Vecchio, as "Angels" wielding a revolutionary new laser wage war on graffiti in the UNESCO site. https://www.thelocal.it/20190308/worlds-first-graffiti-busting-laser-helps-florences-angels Fri, 08 Mar 2019 09:39:37 +0100 worlds-first-graffiti-busting-laser-helps-florences-angels The Council of Europe has called on Italy to take urgent action in making torture and degrading treatment domestic crimes. https://www.thelocal.it/20170314/make-torture-a-crime-council-of-europe-tells-italy Tue, 14 Mar 2017 11:14:37 +0100 make-torture-a-crime-council-of-europe-tells-italy A plan to move 120,000 asylum seekers from Italy and Greece to elsewhere in the EU, including Estonia, Luxembourg and Sweden, will get underway “within days”, Ansa reported on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20151002/asylum-seekers-to-leave-italy-within-days Fri, 02 Oct 2015 16:42:33 +0200 asylum-seekers-to-leave-italy-within-days A 14-year-old boy is fighting for his life in Naples after a bully blasted a compressed air hose up his backside because he was “too fat”. Anti-bullying campaigners are now calling on the government to introduce penalties for bullies. https://www.thelocal.it/20141009/boy-fighting-for-life-after-compressed-air-tube-joke Thu, 09 Oct 2014 17:32:00 +0200 boy-fighting-for-life-after-compressed-air-tube-joke Lavishly frescoed rooms in the houses of the Roman Emperor Augustus and his wife Livia are opening for the first time to the public Thursday, after years of painstaking restoration. https://www.thelocal.it/20140918/emperors-rooms-unveiled-for-first-time-in-rome Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:49:00 +0200 emperors-rooms-unveiled-for-first-time-in-rome A long-running battle over the future of French holiday-resort group Club Med took a twist on Thursday after an Italian businessman made a higher offer, forcing a French and Chinese bidding group to withdraw. https://www.thelocal.it/20140814/italian-businessman-leads-race-for-club-med Thu, 14 Aug 2014 15:26:15 +0200 italian-businessman-leads-race-for-club-med The body of an Italian photographer was being flown to Kiev on Sunday after he became the first journalist to die covering the violent pro-Russian insurgency gripping the east of Ukraine. https://www.thelocal.it/20140525/italian-journalist-killed-in-eastern-ukraine Sun, 25 May 2014 19:56:00 +0200 italian-journalist-killed-in-eastern-ukraine A battle over French holiday group Club Med heated up on Friday when regulators intervened, after an Italian businessman sneaked in to upset an offer by Chinese investment house Fosun. https://www.thelocal.it/20140523/club-med-takeover-facing-italian-rival Fri, 23 May 2014 15:23:00 +0200 club-med-takeover-facing-italian-rival The Italian government has announced plans to open offices around the world to coordinate the fight against the mafia, in addition to upping efforts to tackle organized crime at home. https://www.thelocal.it/20140424/italy-plans-global-network-to-fight-mafia Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:58:00 +0200 italy-plans-global-network-to-fight-mafia Enrico Bondi, the commissioner of Italian steel company ILVA, will meet environment minister, Andrea Orlando, after blaming the rise in cancer rates in Taranto on the "high rates of smoking and alcohol consumption" in the southern port city and not pollution linked to one of the company's mills. https://www.thelocal.it/20130715/commissioner-summoned-in-italian-steel-disaster Mon, 15 Jul 2013 16:50:00 +0200 commissioner-summoned-in-italian-steel-disaster