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 A tourist bus overturned on the motorway between Siena and Florence on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring several others. https://www.thelocal.it/20190522/tourist-bus-crash-near-siena-italy Wed, 22 May 2019 14:58:07 +0200 tourist-bus-crash-near-siena-italy Italian prosecutors called on Wednesday for the head of the country's beleaguered Autostrade motorway operator to serve ten years in jail for a bus crash in 2013 in which 40 people died. https://www.thelocal.it/20181011/italy-motorway-operator-boss-faces-jail-for-deadly-bus-crash Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:55:48 +0200 italy-motorway-operator-boss-faces-jail-for-deadly-bus-crash French and Italian civil and military teams were working to contain a spreading oil spill in the Mediterranean on Monday after a container ship collision off the island of Corsica that prompted France to launch an investigation into "maritime pollution". https://www.thelocal.it/20181008/fuel-cleanup-begins-after-cargo-ships-collide-off-corsica Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:30:00 +0200 fuel-cleanup-begins-after-cargo-ships-collide-off-corsica An Italian Navy helicopter crashed in the Mediterranean during a night-time training exercise, killing one, the navy said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20180406/one-dead-in-italian-navy-helicopter-crash Fri, 06 Apr 2018 15:17:10 +0200 one-dead-in-italian-navy-helicopter-crash Six people including two children were killed on Tuesday in an explosion on a motorway in northern Italy, when a family car was shunted into a petrol tanker, police and media reports said. https://www.thelocal.it/20180103/family-killed-as-tanker-explodes-in-italy-motorway-crash Wed, 03 Jan 2018 09:54:43 +0100 family-killed-as-tanker-explodes-in-italy-motorway-crash 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 Italian police said on Monday they had charged the driver of a Hungarian coach which crashed and burst into flames killing 16 people, mostly teenagers returning from a skiing trip to France. https://www.thelocal.it/20170131/italian-police-charge-hungarian-bus-crash-driver Tue, 31 Jan 2017 09:48:26 +0100 italian-police-charge-hungarian-bus-crash-driver Two of the men who died when an emergency services helicopter crashed in the central Italian mountains had been part of the rescue effort at avalanche-hit Hotel Rigopiano. https://www.thelocal.it/20170125/rigopiano-rescuers-mourn-colleagues-who-died-in-helicopter-crash Wed, 25 Jan 2017 10:24:13 +0100 rigopiano-rescuers-mourn-colleagues-who-died-in-helicopter-crash Six people died on Tuesday in a helicopter crash in the mountains of central Italy, police said. https://www.thelocal.it/20170124/medical-helicopter-crashes-near-avalanche-zone Tue, 24 Jan 2017 14:00:59 +0100 medical-helicopter-crashes-near-avalanche-zone A light aircraft crashed and caught fire in northern Italy on Wednesday, killing the one person on board. https://www.thelocal.it/20161006/light-aircraft-crashes-and-catches-fire-in-northern-italy-killing-one Thu, 06 Oct 2016 12:18:56 +0200 light-aircraft-crashes-and-catches-fire-in-northern-italy-killing-one 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 Eight people were injured after two trams collided in the northern Italian city of Trieste on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160816/eight-injured-in-crash-on-popular-italian-tramline Tue, 16 Aug 2016 16:44:49 +0200 eight-injured-in-crash-on-popular-italian-tramline Five tourists from Belgium, Italy and Peru were killed in a car crash at Bolivia's famous salt flats, the Salar de Uyuni, authorities said on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160801/italians-among-those-killed-at-bolivias-top-tourist-draw Mon, 01 Aug 2016 10:02:07 +0200 italians-among-those-killed-at-bolivias-top-tourist-draw A train station manager has taken partial blame for a deadly head-on collision that claimed at least 23 lives in one of Italy's worst rail accidents, according to media reports on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160714/station-master-takes-blame-for-deadly-italy-train-crash Thu, 14 Jul 2016 12:53:56 +0200 station-master-takes-blame-for-deadly-italy-train-crash The death toll following Tuesday’s train crash in Puglia has been confirmed as 23, the Governor of Italy’s Puglia region, Michele Emiliano, announced on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160713/death-toll-from-puglia-train-crash-confirmed-as-23 Wed, 13 Jul 2016 18:42:34 +0200 death-toll-from-puglia-train-crash-confirmed-as-23 At least 27 people were killed on Tuesday and dozens injured in a head-on collision between two passenger trains in the southern Italian region of Puglia, in one of the country's worst rail accidents in recent years. https://www.thelocal.it/20160712/four-killed-in-puglia-train-crash Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:50:26 +0200 four-killed-in-puglia-train-crash Relatives of victims of one of Italy's worst rail accidents gathered to identify their dead Wednesday, as rescue workers at the scene of the head-on collision between two trains dismantled the wreckage in search of missing bodies. https://www.thelocal.it/20160713/puglia-train-collision-mourners-identify-the-dead Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:01:17 +0200 puglia-train-collision-mourners-identify-the-dead At least 27 people died on Tuesday in a head-on collision between two trains in the southern Italian region of Puglia in the latest rail tragedy to hit Europe. https://www.thelocal.it/20160713/recent-train-disasters-in-europe Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:12:18 +0200 recent-train-disasters-in-europe A tourist was fined on Tuesday after his camera drone crashed into Venice’s iconic St Mark’s Square. https://www.thelocal.it/20160706/tourist-fined-after-drone-crashes-in-st-marks-square-venice Wed, 06 Jul 2016 11:10:04 +0200 tourist-fined-after-drone-crashes-in-st-marks-square-venice