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 Sixty-one years ago, Italy suffered the worst man-made environmental disaster in its history: an inland tsunami that swept away entire villages and left nearly 2,000 bodies behind. https://www.thelocal.it/20181009/in-pictures-the-vajont-dam-disaster Tue, 09 Oct 2018 16:29:31 +0200 in-pictures-the-vajont-dam-disaster An Italian diver who led a search for victims of a Mediterranean shipwreck has described the horror of finding the body of a baby, whose mother had clutched him to her as they drowned. https://www.thelocal.it/20191017/unbearable-divers-describe-horror-of-finding-victims-of-lampedusa-shipwreck Thu, 17 Oct 2019 17:31:39 +0200 unbearable-divers-describe-horror-of-finding-victims-of-lampedusa-shipwreck On January 18th Italy marks the second anniversary of a major avalanche in Pescara, Abruzzo which engulfed a luxury hotel and killed 29 people. https://www.thelocal.it/20190118/italy-commemorates Fri, 18 Jan 2019 12:54:32 +0100 italy-commemorates Grieving relatives wept over the coffins of dozens of victims of Genoa's bridge disaster Friday amid growing fury over a planned state funeral, while rescuers pressed on with their tireless search for those missing in the rubble. https://www.thelocal.it/20180818/relatives-grieve-over-victims-of-genoa-bridge-disaster Sat, 18 Aug 2018 15:41:13 +0200 relatives-grieve-over-victims-of-genoa-bridge-disaster Dozens died when the Morandi motorway bridge that connects Genoa to most of the rest of northern Italy collapsed during a storm around noon on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20180815/genoa-bridge-collapse-in-pictures Wed, 15 Aug 2018 14:00:00 +0200 genoa-bridge-collapse-in-pictures On January 18th, Italy marks the one-year anniversary of a major avalanche in Rigopiano that engulfed a luxury hotel and killed 29 people. https://www.thelocal.it/20180118/italy-rigopiano-hotel-avalanche-anniversary Thu, 18 Jan 2018 17:34:52 +0100 italy-rigopiano-hotel-avalanche-anniversary UPDATED: At least six people have died in violent rainstorms sweeping across Italy on Sunday, with the Tuscan city of Livorno taking the brunt of the flooding, fire services said. https://www.thelocal.it/20170910/floods-italy-at-least-five-dead Sun, 10 Sep 2017 15:17:01 +0200 floods-italy-at-least-five-dead A 4.0 magnitude earthquake killed at least two people when it struck Ischia on Monday, August 21st. An earthquake on the same spot 134 years earlier killed more than 2,000 people. https://www.thelocal.it/20170822/a-long-history-of-destructive-earthquakes-in-italy Tue, 22 Aug 2017 13:17:45 +0200 a-long-history-of-destructive-earthquakes-in-italy A magnitude-4.0 earthquake struck the Italian holiday island of Ischia, causing destruction that left two people dead at peak tourist season, authorities said, as rescue workers struggled early Tuesday to free two children from the rubble. https://www.thelocal.it/20170822/two-die-in-earthquake-near-southern-italian-island Tue, 22 Aug 2017 10:40:09 +0200 two-die-in-earthquake-near-southern-italian-island Mauro Moretti, the former head of Italian railways, was on Tuesday among a string of executives convicted over a 2009 freight train disaster that killed 29 people. https://www.thelocal.it/20170131/italys-former-railway-boss-sentenced-to-jail-over-disaster-that-killed-29 Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:37:32 +0100 italys-former-railway-boss-sentenced-to-jail-over-disaster-that-killed-29 A series of destructive earthquakes struck central Italy on Wednesday night, a region still reeling from August's deadly quake. https://www.thelocal.it/20161027/central-italy-earthquake-what-we-know-so-far Thu, 27 Oct 2016 12:12:14 +0200 central-italy-earthquake-what-we-know-so-far After the area labelled 'at risk' of an eruption from Mount Vesuvius was expanded earlier this year based on scientific recommendations, local authorities said on Thursday that "most" of the updated evacuation plan was ready. https://www.thelocal.it/20161013/evacuation-plan-for-vesuvius-eruption-naples-campania-will-be-ready-by-october Thu, 13 Oct 2016 15:38:11 +0200 evacuation-plan-for-vesuvius-eruption-naples-campania-will-be-ready-by-october A group of French survivors of the Costa Concordia disaster have pointed the finger at Italian authorities over the missing jewelry, money and electrical goods they were storing in the ship's safes. https://www.thelocal.it/20160905/french-concordia-survivors-blame-italy-for-stolen-possessions Mon, 05 Sep 2016 12:45:55 +0200 french-concordia-survivors-blame-italy-for-stolen-possessions 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 At least 10 people died after an inflatable dinghy loaded with migrants began sinking in the Mediterranean on Thursday, the Italian coastguard said. https://www.thelocal.it/20160630/at-least-10-dead-on-sinking-migrant-boat-italian-coastguard Thu, 30 Jun 2016 12:56:08 +0200 at-least-10-dead-on-sinking-migrant-boat-italian-coastguard An Italian prosecutor on Tuesday requested an 18-year prison term for the alleged captain of a migrant boat which sank off Libya in April 2015, killing as many as 800 people, Italian media reported. https://www.thelocal.it/20160517/1-prosecutor-wants-18-years-jail-for-migrant-disaster-boat-captain Tue, 17 May 2016 19:50:42 +0200 1-prosecutor-wants-18-years-jail-for-migrant-disaster-boat-captain An operation to salvage a sunken migrant boat packed with corpses was suspended on Friday due to bad weather, the Italian navy said. https://www.thelocal.it/20160513/italy-suspends-raising-migrant-wreck-bad-weather Fri, 13 May 2016 14:30:09 +0200 italy-suspends-raising-migrant-wreck-bad-weather The Italian navy said on Tuesday it is ready to raise a boat which sank off Libya last year and recover the bodies of hundreds of victims believed to have been trapped inside. https://www.thelocal.it/20160503/italy-set-to-raise-migrant-shipwreck-and-identify-hundreds-of-victims Tue, 03 May 2016 19:05:51 +0200 italy-set-to-raise-migrant-shipwreck-and-identify-hundreds-of-victims Italy's navy said Monday that work to salvage a sunken trawler stuffed with the corpses of migrants was progressing but that the wreck would not be brought to port before next month. https://www.thelocal.it/20160419/italy-says-close-to-raising-migrant-disaster-ship Tue, 19 Apr 2016 10:28:50 +0200 italy-says-close-to-raising-migrant-disaster-ship More than 1,000 people gathered at the Mattmark hydro dam in the Swiss canton of Valais Alps on Sunday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a natural disaster that killed 88 workers, including 56 Italians. https://www.thelocal.it/20150831/alpine-dam-disaster-remembered-50-years-on Mon, 31 Aug 2015 10:52:42 +0200 alpine-dam-disaster-remembered-50-years-on