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 Three people have been killed in Venice after a powerboat attempting to break an offshore record slammed into an artificial spit of land in the dark, Italian firefighters and media reports said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20190918/three-killed-in-venice-speedboat-crash Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:34:07 +0200 three-killed-in-venice-speedboat-crash An Italian bishop has criticized a nativity scene set up on a square in Castenaso, a town near Bologna, for having a migrant dinghy in the middle of it. https://www.thelocal.it/20171205/italian-bishop-laments-nativity-scene-over-migrant-dinghy Tue, 05 Dec 2017 14:49:43 +0100 italian-bishop-laments-nativity-scene-over-migrant-dinghy At least eight people are feared to have died after a Tunisian warship collided with a migrant boat heading towards Italy on Sunday night. https://www.thelocal.it/20171009/at-least-eight-feared-dead-after-tunisian-ship-collides-with-migrant-boat Mon, 09 Oct 2017 14:04:14 +0200 at-least-eight-feared-dead-after-tunisian-ship-collides-with-migrant-boat About 146 migrants are feared missing after their boat capsized after leaving Libya, according to a Gambian man who was rescued following the disaster, the United Nations' refugee agency said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20170329/146-migrants-feared-missing-after-boat-capsizes-in-med-un-agency Wed, 29 Mar 2017 16:27:24 +0200 146-migrants-feared-missing-after-boat-capsizes-in-med-un-agency A baby girl was born on a migrant rescue boat en route to Italy on Tuesday morning. https://www.thelocal.it/20170322/woman-gives-birth-to-baby-girl-on-migrant-rescue-boat Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:36:11 +0100 woman-gives-birth-to-baby-girl-on-migrant-rescue-boat Italy saw a record 181,000 migrants arriving on its shores on boats from northern Africa, EU border agency Frontex said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20170106/italys-boat-migrant-numbers-surged-20-in-2016 Fri, 06 Jan 2017 14:44:54 +0100 italys-boat-migrant-numbers-surged-20-in-2016 Academy award-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is planning on putting on public show a boat which sank off Libya killing up to 900 people, Italy's La Repubblica reported on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20161214/migrant-boat-tomb-could-go-on-show-at-milans-cathedral Wed, 14 Dec 2016 12:52:58 +0100 migrant-boat-tomb-could-go-on-show-at-milans-cathedral Two Syrian girls, one of them an eight-month-old baby, are among up to six people who died when a boat carrying would-be migrants to Europe capsized off Libya Thursday, rescuers said. https://www.thelocal.it/20160819/syrian-baby-and-five-year-old-dead-in-migrant-boat-tragedy Fri, 19 Aug 2016 16:53:00 +0200 syrian-baby-and-five-year-old-dead-in-migrant-boat-tragedy Three young people were injured, two seriously, on Tuesday night after a water taxi in Venice cut through the boat they were on. https://www.thelocal.it/20160817/three-injured-as-venice-water-taxi-slices-boat-in-two Wed, 17 Aug 2016 16:18:29 +0200 three-injured-as-venice-water-taxi-slices-boat-in-two Italy has started recovering the bodies of migrants from a small fishing boat that sank with more than 800 people more than a year ago, a spokesman said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160705/italy-starts-recovering-bodies-from-migrant-disaster-boat Tue, 05 Jul 2016 10:35:02 +0200 italy-starts-recovering-bodies-from-migrant-disaster-boat A total of 3,324 migrants were rescued off Libya on Sunday in 26 different operations, the Italian coastguard said, bringing to more than 10,000 the total saved since Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160627/more-than-3300-migrants-rescued-off-libya-italian-coastguard Mon, 27 Jun 2016 10:44:18 +0200 more-than-3300-migrants-rescued-off-libya-italian-coastguard At least 1,000 people are thought to have drowned or are missing in nine migrant shipwrecks in the Mediterranean over the last six days, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160531/1000-feared-dead-in-migrant-tragedies-within-six-days Tue, 31 May 2016 18:16:50 +0200 1000-feared-dead-in-migrant-tragedies-within-six-days With 13,000 people rescued in one week and hundreds presumed drowned, what do we know about migrant flows across the Mediterranean to Italy? https://www.thelocal.it/20160530/migrant-crossings-to-italy-what-do-we-know Mon, 30 May 2016 17:28:26 +0200 migrant-crossings-to-italy-what-do-we-know Up to 30 people are feared dead after a shipwreck off Libya, while some 50 migrants have been rescued from the waves, the EU's naval force said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160526/up-to-30-people-dead-in-new-migrant-boat-disaster-reports Thu, 26 May 2016 15:42:47 +0200 up-to-30-people-dead-in-new-migrant-boat-disaster-reports Dramatic images released by the Italian navy on Wednesday captured the moment a heavily overcrowded boat overturned in a shipwreck off Libya which left at least five people dead. https://www.thelocal.it/20160526/striking-pictures-capture-moment-of-migrant-shipwreck Thu, 26 May 2016 10:22:29 +0200 striking-pictures-capture-moment-of-migrant-shipwreck At least five migrants have drowned off the Libyan coast after the heavily overcrowded boat they were sailing on overturned, the Italian navy said on Wednesday, revising downwards an earlier death toll. https://www.thelocal.it/20160525/seven-migrants-dead-in-shipwreck-off-libya-italian-navy Wed, 25 May 2016 15:11:20 +0200 seven-migrants-dead-in-shipwreck-off-libya-italian-navy An Italian prosecutor on Tuesday requested an 18-year prison term for the alleged captain of a migrant boat which sank off Libya in April 2015, killing as many as 800 people, Italian media reported. https://www.thelocal.it/20160517/1-prosecutor-wants-18-years-jail-for-migrant-disaster-boat-captain Tue, 17 May 2016 19:50:42 +0200 1-prosecutor-wants-18-years-jail-for-migrant-disaster-boat-captain An operation to salvage a sunken migrant boat packed with corpses was suspended on Friday due to bad weather, the Italian navy said. https://www.thelocal.it/20160513/italy-suspends-raising-migrant-wreck-bad-weather Fri, 13 May 2016 14:30:09 +0200 italy-suspends-raising-migrant-wreck-bad-weather The Italian navy announced on Wednesday it had found two more bodies as it started towing a sunken migrant vessel towards the surface of the Mediterranean. https://www.thelocal.it/20160512/two-more-bodies-found-as-italy-begins-raising-migrant-wreck Thu, 12 May 2016 13:36:17 +0200 two-more-bodies-found-as-italy-begins-raising-migrant-wreck The Italian navy said on Tuesday it is ready to raise a boat which sank off Libya last year and recover the bodies of hundreds of victims believed to have been trapped inside. https://www.thelocal.it/20160503/italy-set-to-raise-migrant-shipwreck-and-identify-hundreds-of-victims Tue, 03 May 2016 19:05:51 +0200 italy-set-to-raise-migrant-shipwreck-and-identify-hundreds-of-victims