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 Italian prosecutors are investigating the deaths of 117 people in a shipwreck off Libya last month and whether delays at the rescue command centre in Rome cost lives, a Sicilian prosecutor said Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20190202/italian-prosecutors-probe-coast-guard-over-deadly-shipwreck Sat, 02 Feb 2019 17:50:00 +0100 italian-prosecutors-probe-coast-guard-over-deadly-shipwreck 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 A dog has been hailed a hero after saving a five-year-old boy from drowning in the sea along Italy’s Adriatic coast, but minutes later died himself. https://www.thelocal.it/20140814/hero-dog-dies-after-saving-drowning-boy Thu, 14 Aug 2014 13:26:00 +0200 hero-dog-dies-after-saving-drowning-boy Thirty-one migrants, including nine women, drowned off the coast of Libya during an attempted crossing to Italy on a dinghy according to survivors who managed to complete the journey. https://www.thelocal.it/20130728/31-dead-on-doomed-voyage-to-italy Sun, 28 Jul 2013 17:35:00 +0200 31-dead-on-doomed-voyage-to-italy