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 mercury is expected to rise across south and central Italy this week as an African anticyclone sends temperatures soaring way above seasonal averages. https://www.thelocal.it/20160329/spring-temperatures-to-soar-thanks-to-african-anticyclone Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:59:31 +0200 spring-temperatures-to-soar-thanks-to-african-anticyclone A call centre worker from Turin is suing her former employer after irreversibly losing her voice. https://www.thelocal.it/20151215/woman-sues-turin-call-centre-over-lost-voice Tue, 15 Dec 2015 11:59:24 +0100 woman-sues-turin-call-centre-over-lost-voice Police clad in anti-riot gear and with sniffer dogs in tow raided a refugee centre in Rome on Tuesday, searching for undocumented migrants amid a tightened security effort in the capital since the Paris attacks. https://www.thelocal.it/20151124/anti-riot-police-raid-rome-migrant-centre Tue, 24 Nov 2015 17:06:58 +0100 anti-riot-police-raid-rome-migrant-centre Prosecutors investigating Italy's largest refugee centre, Cara di Mineo, have uncovered evidence of a fraud that allowed the complex to keep receiving money for refugees after they had left. https://www.thelocal.it/20151015/ghost-refugee-scam-uncovered-at-refugee-centre Thu, 15 Oct 2015 14:24:39 +0200 ghost-refugee-scam-uncovered-at-refugee-centre He escaped captivity, lost his family and paid a people smuggler to take him to Italy. But now here, an Afghan refugee tells The Local that although he's still alive, his future remains precarious. https://www.thelocal.it/20151008/an-afghan-refugee-safe-but-in-limbo-in-italy Thu, 08 Oct 2015 15:18:56 +0200 an-afghan-refugee-safe-but-in-limbo-in-italy A judge will on Wednesday rule whether to confirm the arrest of an 18-year-old asylum seeker from the Ivory Coast, who is accused of killing an elderly couple at their home in Palagonia, Sicily, on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150902/sicily-double-murder-suspect-faces-judge Wed, 02 Sep 2015 10:42:03 +0200 sicily-double-murder-suspect-faces-judge Twelve migrants have been accused of kidnapping and attempted robbery after allegedly storming into the director's office of a refugee centre in Sicily and locking up two workers in a bid to 'steal' the pocket money they hadn't been paid. https://www.thelocal.it/20150715/migrants-in-sicily-revolt-over-unpaid-pocket-money Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:36:15 +0200 migrants-in-sicily-revolt-over-unpaid-pocket-money "No mama, no papa. All alone." Eleven-year-old Tanjin knows just enough English to sum up his situation in heart-wrenching fashion. https://www.thelocal.it/20150220/all-alone-but-full-of-hope-lempedusas-migrant-children-stories Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:20:00 +0100 all-alone-but-full-of-hope-lempedusas-migrant-children-stories An Italian MP has slammed the treatment of migrants In Italy’s immigration reception centres after a young man from Gambia died at a centre in Sicily on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140416/mp-slams-italy-migrant-health-care Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:09:00 +0200 mp-slams-italy-migrant-health-care An Italian politician has moved into one of Italy's most notorious immigration centres in the island of Lampedusa, charting "awful" conditions and meeting migrants on hunger strike. https://www.thelocal.it/20131223/italian-mp-charts-awful-conditions-in-migrant-centre Mon, 23 Dec 2013 16:34:00 +0100 italian-mp-charts-awful-conditions-in-migrant-centre Survivors of Italy's asylum shipwreck disaster held a sit-in at Lampedusa's refugee centre on Monday, demanding to be taken to Sicily to join in a memorial ceremony for the victims. https://www.thelocal.it/20131021/boat-survivors-banned-from-memorial-service Mon, 21 Oct 2013 17:31:00 +0200 boat-survivors-banned-from-memorial-service