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 The bodies of eight migrants have been found at sea off the coast of Libya by rescuers coming to the aid of four rubber dinghies, the Italian coastguard said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20170801/eight-migrants-found-dead-at-sea-off-libya-italy-coastguard Tue, 01 Aug 2017 19:57:04 +0200 eight-migrants-found-dead-at-sea-off-libya-italy-coastguard "They squeezed them in everywhere for their last trip, packing them in like on the trains for Auschwitz". https://www.thelocal.it/20160721/migrant-shipwreck-bodies-packed-in-like-on-auschwitz-trains Thu, 21 Jul 2016 14:45:36 +0200 migrant-shipwreck-bodies-packed-in-like-on-auschwitz-trains Italy has finished the gruesome task of recovering migrant bodies from a fishing boat that sank with hundreds of people aboard more than a year ago, the navy said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160714/italy-finishes-removing-corpses-from-raised-migrant-wreck Thu, 14 Jul 2016 18:38:07 +0200 italy-finishes-removing-corpses-from-raised-migrant-wreck 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 The sunken wreck of a long-lost Second World War submarine, thought to contain the bodies of 71 servicemen sealed inside its airtight chambers, has been found by divers off the coast of Sardinia. https://www.thelocal.it/20160525/italy-finds-wreck-of-wwii-submarine-with-71-bodies-possibly-sealed-inside Wed, 25 May 2016 13:52:50 +0200 italy-finds-wreck-of-wwii-submarine-with-71-bodies-possibly-sealed-inside 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 Tunisian coast guards recovered the decomposed bodies of five migrants who apparently drowned at sea as they sought to reach Italy from conflict-hit Libya, an official said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150707/tunisia-recovers-bodies-of-italy-bound-migrants Tue, 07 Jul 2015 11:16:02 +0200 tunisia-recovers-bodies-of-italy-bound-migrants The Italian navy on Monday said it had begun efforts to recover the bodies of some 800 migrants killed in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean in April, as authorities rescued another 4,400 people making the dangerous sea journey to Europe. https://www.thelocal.it/20150630/italy-starts-recovery-of-800-bodies-from-shipwreck Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:47:17 +0200 italy-starts-recovery-of-800-bodies-from-shipwreck Italy will recover hundreds of bodies from a boat which capsized in April in a bid to prevent the collapse of an EU plan to tackle the migrant crisis, the prime minister said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150520/italy-to-recover-shipwreck-dead-as-eu-plan-falters Wed, 20 May 2015 11:04:13 +0200 italy-to-recover-shipwreck-dead-as-eu-plan-falters UPDATED: A man was killed by a landslide outside his home in Crevacuore, a town in Piedmont, amid torrential rain in northern Italy on Wednesday morning. The bodies of two pensioners were also found on Tuesday night after a landslide engulfed their home in Liguria. https://www.thelocal.it/20141112/couple-found-dead-after-landslide-hit-liguria-home Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:48:00 +0100 couple-found-dead-after-landslide-hit-liguria-home A group of mortuary workers in the central Italian region of Marche region have been arrested for allegedly removing pacemakers from corpses, Italian media has reported. https://www.thelocal.it/20131024/morgue-staff-cut-pacemakers-from-bodies Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:49:00 +0200 morgue-staff-cut-pacemakers-from-bodies