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 Italy's co-deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio has apologised following revelations that his father's construction company employed staff off the books. https://www.thelocal.it/20181126/di-maio-father-le-iene-work-contracts Mon, 26 Nov 2018 11:00:00 +0100 di-maio-father-le-iene-work-contracts An earthquake measuring 3.8 magnitude hit the central Italian town of Amatrice on Sunday morning, causing further collapses in the town's historic centre. https://www.thelocal.it/20170130/tremor-in-amatrice-knocks-down-church Mon, 30 Jan 2017 09:52:30 +0100 tremor-in-amatrice-knocks-down-church Heavy rains that pounded Italy over the past three days have left at least two people dead and two others are reported missing, Italian media said over the weekend. https://www.thelocal.it/20161128/two-dead-after-heavy-storms-across-northern-italy Mon, 28 Nov 2016 10:09:18 +0100 two-dead-after-heavy-storms-across-northern-italy Two refugee children at a school in Sardinia were asked to use different toilets from the other children, after parents voiced fears that the boys might have contagious illnesses. https://www.thelocal.it/20161003/refugee-children-made-to-use-separate-toilets-at-sardinian-school Mon, 03 Oct 2016 12:48:49 +0200 refugee-children-made-to-use-separate-toilets-at-sardinian-school Former Argentina boss Marcelo Bielsa has abruptly pulled out of coaching Lazio in a shock move which the club said could result in legal action. https://www.thelocal.it/20160708/marcelo-bielsa-quits-as-lazio-coach-after-two-days Fri, 08 Jul 2016 13:42:29 +0200 marcelo-bielsa-quits-as-lazio-coach-after-two-days An 80-year-old woman drove along a 7km stretch of highway in Sardinia – in the wrong direction. https://www.thelocal.it/20160530/italian-gran-drives-wrong-way-along-motorwayfor-7km Mon, 30 May 2016 18:51:14 +0200 italian-gran-drives-wrong-way-along-motorwayfor-7km Olympic triple jump bronze medallist Fabrizio Donato was among eight Italian athletes, including several hoping to compete at the Rio Games, cleared of doping violations on Monday by the country's anti-doping tribunal. https://www.thelocal.it/20160322/eight-italians-cleared-of-doping-violations Tue, 22 Mar 2016 09:00:25 +0100 eight-italians-cleared-of-doping-violations Italy’s average youth unemployment rate fell to 40.3 percent in 2015 – the first time the rate for the year has fallen since 2007. https://www.thelocal.it/20160310/italys-youth-jobless-rate-falls-for-first-time-since-2007 Thu, 10 Mar 2016 13:05:58 +0100 italys-youth-jobless-rate-falls-for-first-time-since-2007 Italian veteran Giampaolo Caruso is out of the Tour of Spain after being provisionally suspended by cycling's world governing body the International Cycling Union (UCI) on Tuesday after a sample provided in 2012 was retested and found to contain EPO. https://www.thelocal.it/20150819/italys-caruso-suspended-after-positive-test Wed, 19 Aug 2015 09:37:23 +0200 italys-caruso-suspended-after-positive-test Spain's far-left party Podemos, an ally of Greece's ruling Syriza, on Monday urged France and Italy's social democratic governments to back Athens as it bids to negotiate a new debt deal. https://www.thelocal.it/20150707/spains-far-left-urges-italy-to-back-athens Tue, 07 Jul 2015 09:53:08 +0200 spains-far-left-urges-italy-to-back-athens The drop in value of the euro is expected to bring more visitors to Italy this year, with the owner of a villa complex reporting his busiest ever start to the year for bookings. https://www.thelocal.it/20150202/weaker-euro-to-boost-tourism-to-italy Mon, 02 Feb 2015 17:52:00 +0100 weaker-euro-to-boost-tourism-to-italy A single mother, people who have been married before and Italian couples who have been living together "in sin" were married by Pope Francis in a taboo-challenging ceremony at the Vatican on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140915/pope-marries-italian-couples-who-lived-in-sin Mon, 15 Sep 2014 10:48:00 +0200 pope-marries-italian-couples-who-lived-in-sin A police officer from Venice who was fired in 2006 for dressing as a woman may soon be able to return to the force, as well as claim damages, after a court ruled he was suffering from a “disease”. https://www.thelocal.it/20140508/policeman-appeals-dismissal-for-dressing-as-a-woman Thu, 08 May 2014 13:23:00 +0200 policeman-appeals-dismissal-for-dressing-as-a-woman Italian drinks company Campari on Tuesday announced it was buying the owner of the Averna digestif brand in a €103.75 million deal and said it hoped for a boost from new trends in the United States. https://www.thelocal.it/20140415/there-is-growing-interest-for-italian-liqueurs Tue, 15 Apr 2014 11:50:00 +0200 there-is-growing-interest-for-italian-liqueurs The brutal murder of a three-year-old boy in a mafia ambush in southern Italy shows that the so-called "code of honour" among members of organised crime groups is pure myth, according to experts. https://www.thelocal.it/20140320/child-killing-shows-mafia-code-of-conduct-is-myth Thu, 20 Mar 2014 09:53:00 +0100 child-killing-shows-mafia-code-of-conduct-is-myth A man in the northern Italian city of Vicenza was alarmed to discover a First World War bomb, which experts said could still explode, hidden in the home he recently inherited from his aunt. https://www.thelocal.it/20131217/first-world-war-bomb-found-in-inherited-house Tue, 17 Dec 2013 12:48:00 +0100 first-world-war-bomb-found-in-inherited-house