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 An Italian restaurant owner who shot a burglar dead is being investigated for voluntary manslaughter, sparking calls on Saturday for changes to the country's law covering self-defence killings. https://www.thelocal.it/20170311/italy-row-over-self-defence-after-burglar-shot-dead Sat, 11 Mar 2017 16:33:03 +0100 italy-row-over-self-defence-after-burglar-shot-dead 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 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 An Italian man was found dead on Sunday on Mont Blanc in the French Alps after attempting a wingsuit jump, one of the most dangerous extreme sports, mountain rescue services said. https://www.thelocal.it/20160613/italian-dies-in-wingsuit-accident-on-french-alps Mon, 13 Jun 2016 10:18:07 +0200 italian-dies-in-wingsuit-accident-on-french-alps A policeman in Italy has shot dead a migrant who stabbed him during a brawl in an area renowned for tensions between immigrants, locals and police, media reports said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160608/italy-policeman-shoots-dead-migrant-who-stabbed-him Wed, 08 Jun 2016 15:48:30 +0200 italy-policeman-shoots-dead-migrant-who-stabbed-him Police in Spain were investigating on Monday the deaths of a foreign couple whose bodies were found inside an Italian-flagged luxury yacht at the Mediterranean resort of Roses. https://www.thelocal.it/20160606/italian-woman-found-dead-on-yacht-in-spain Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:28:29 +0200 italian-woman-found-dead-on-yacht-in-spain The body of a man who died five years ago was found on Thursday in his home in Sardinia. https://www.thelocal.it/20160526/italian-man-lay-dead-in-his-flat-for-five-years-before-being-found Thu, 26 May 2016 17:54:23 +0200 italian-man-lay-dead-in-his-flat-for-five-years-before-being-found 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 British expats who have been registered to vote in the UK within the last 15 years have until Tuesday June 7th to apply for a proxy vote in the EU referendum. https://www.thelocal.it/20160520/brits-be-warned-applications-for-brexit-proxy-vote-needed-by-june-7th Fri, 20 May 2016 18:09:10 +0200 brits-be-warned-applications-for-brexit-proxy-vote-needed-by-june-7th Eleven dead bodies have been recovered after a helicopter carrying 13 people crashed off western Norway on Friday, with the search continuing for the other two, rescue services said. https://www.thelocal.it/20160429/italian-feared-dead-in-norway-helicopter-crash Fri, 29 Apr 2016 17:42:22 +0200 italian-feared-dead-in-norway-helicopter-crash A grieving father in Italy has written to Apple's chief executive Tim Cook to beg him to unblock his dead son's iPhone so he can retrieve the photographs stored on it. https://www.thelocal.it/20160331/grieving-father-begs-apple-and-enlists-hackers-to-unblock-dead-sons-iphone Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:58:01 +0200 grieving-father-begs-apple-and-enlists-hackers-to-unblock-dead-sons-iphone The body of a brown bear, a protected species in Italy, was found on Monday in Trentino, feared poisoned, the north-east province said. https://www.thelocal.it/20160322/poison-probe-after-protected-brown-bear-found-dead-in-italy Tue, 22 Mar 2016 09:20:31 +0100 poison-probe-after-protected-brown-bear-found-dead-in-italy The ashes of Renato Bialetti, the man who turned the octagonal coffee pot into a global icon, were buried inside a giant Moka on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160217/italys-late-coffee-king-buried-inside-iconic-moka-pot Wed, 17 Feb 2016 11:24:19 +0100 italys-late-coffee-king-buried-inside-iconic-moka-pot Two people have died in separate incidents in Italy's Alps. https://www.thelocal.it/20151209/two-die-after-falls-in-italian-alps Wed, 09 Dec 2015 11:28:30 +0100 two-die-after-falls-in-italian-alps A 17-year-old girl has been arrested in Calabria after allegedly killing her mother because she confiscated her mobile phone and computer. https://www.thelocal.it/20151029/teen-shot-mum-dead-over-confiscated-phone Thu, 29 Oct 2015 12:00:28 +0100 teen-shot-mum-dead-over-confiscated-phone UPDATED: An Italian charity worker died after being shot by attackers in Dhaka on Monday, police said, amid heightened fears over security in Bangladesh. https://www.thelocal.it/20150928/italian-shot-dead-in-bangladesh-police Mon, 28 Sep 2015 19:37:55 +0200 italian-shot-dead-in-bangladesh-police At least ten migrants who were seeking to reach Europe are feared dead after their inflatable dinghy capsized off the coast of Libya, a local prosecutor on the Italian island of Sicily said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150724/at-least-ten-migrants-dead-trying-to-reach-italy Fri, 24 Jul 2015 09:46:09 +0200 at-least-ten-migrants-dead-trying-to-reach-italy The body of a 26-year-old Italian was found on Wednesday in a dam at the farm he had been working on in Queensland, Australia. https://www.thelocal.it/20150723/italian-farm-worker-found-dead-in-australia Thu, 23 Jul 2015 11:28:38 +0200 italian-farm-worker-found-dead-in-australia UPDATED: An accidental explosion on an oil pipeline in Nigeria operated by Italian energy giant Eni left 12 people dead and three injured, the company said in a statement Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150710/12-dead-in-nigeria-pipeline-explosion-eni Fri, 10 Jul 2015 16:07:59 +0200 12-dead-in-nigeria-pipeline-explosion-eni The managers of a pizzeria in the northern Italian province of Alessandria have been charged after 20 dead dogs and a cat were found in the property. https://www.thelocal.it/20150616/dead-dogs-and-cats-found-in-pizzerias-freezer Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:00:00 +0200 dead-dogs-and-cats-found-in-pizzerias-freezer