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 European Union anti-trust authorities have opened an investigation into global steel giant ArcelorMittal's bid to buy struggling Italian steel producer Ilva, officials said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20171109/eu-opens-probe-into-arcelormittal-purchase-of-ilva Thu, 09 Nov 2017 10:20:03 +0100 eu-opens-probe-into-arcelormittal-purchase-of-ilva Fourteen people, seven of them firefighters, were injured in an explosion which also completely destroyed a paints factory near Turin on Monday night. https://www.thelocal.it/20160531/fourteen-people-injured-in-turin-paints-factory-explosion Tue, 31 May 2016 13:43:39 +0200 fourteen-people-injured-in-turin-paints-factory-explosion An ancient Roman amphitheatre, in the town of Fano, in the Marche region, is slowly rotting away beneath an abandoned factory from the early 1900s. https://www.thelocal.it/20160318/italian-town-forgets-roman-theatre-found-under-derelict-factory Fri, 18 Mar 2016 14:51:32 +0100 italian-town-forgets-roman-theatre-found-under-derelict-factory The owner of a leather factory in the Lombardy region has been charged with exploiting child labour after an eight-year-old boy was found working on the premises. https://www.thelocal.it/20150911/boy-8-found-working-in-italy-factory Fri, 11 Sep 2015 11:19:53 +0200 boy-8-found-working-in-italy-factory The death toll from an explosion at a fireworks factory in southern Italy last week has risen to ten after one of the factory's owners died of his injuries. https://www.thelocal.it/20150730/fireworks-factory-blast-death-toll-rises-to-ten Thu, 30 Jul 2015 11:19:19 +0200 fireworks-factory-blast-death-toll-rises-to-ten UPDATE: The death toll from an explosion at a fireworks factory in southern Italy has risen to nine after one of those hurt succumbed to their injuries, a hospital source said on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150724/seven-dead-in-bari-firework-factory-blast Fri, 24 Jul 2015 18:41:26 +0200 seven-dead-in-bari-firework-factory-blast Three people died and three others were injured in an explosion at a fireworks factory near Naples on Wednesday morning. https://www.thelocal.it/20150513/three-dead-in-naples-fireworks-factory-blast Wed, 13 May 2015 19:03:48 +0200 three-dead-in-naples-fireworks-factory-blast In the impoverished city of Taranto, work that has provoked cancer is preferable to starving. https://www.thelocal.it/20150401/italys-steel-workers-risk-cancer-or-hunger Wed, 01 Apr 2015 11:08:29 +0200 italys-steel-workers-risk-cancer-or-hunger Italian fashion retailer Benetton has agreed to pay into an international compensation fund for victims of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh in which 1,138 people died. https://www.thelocal.it/20150220/benetton-pays-up-over-bangladesh-factory-tragedy Fri, 20 Feb 2015 15:50:00 +0100 benetton-pays-up-over-bangladesh-factory-tragedy Three Chinese managers were found guilty of multiple manslaughter by an Italian court on Monday, a year after a deadly fire in a garment factory in Tuscany which left seven people dead. https://www.thelocal.it/20150113/chinese-guilty-of-manslaughter-over-deadly-prato-fire Tue, 13 Jan 2015 09:20:00 +0100 chinese-guilty-of-manslaughter-over-deadly-prato-fire Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Sunday floated the idea of nationalising during "two or three years" the country's loss-making Ilva steel plant, one of Europe's most polluting. https://www.thelocal.it/20141201/renzi-moots-nationalisation-of-troubled-steel-plant Mon, 01 Dec 2014 09:17:00 +0100 renzi-moots-nationalisation-of-troubled-steel-plant Pope Francis on Wednesday attacked a German steel group's plan to slash jobs at a loss-making Italian plant, in comments likely to boost the pontiff's sometimes controversial image as a social campaigner. https://www.thelocal.it/20140903/pope-sides-with-factory-workers-in-italy-cuts-row Wed, 03 Sep 2014 16:38:00 +0200 pope-sides-with-factory-workers-in-italy-cuts-row One hundred jobs will be lost in Italy as the French food industry giant, Danone, closes a factory near Milan, the company announced on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140611/danone-cuts-100-jobs-in-italy-due-to-crisis Wed, 11 Jun 2014 17:28:00 +0200 danone-cuts-100-jobs-in-italy-due-to-crisis A blast furnace at an Italian steel plant was shut down on Thursday with 4,000 jobs at risk despite a call by Pope Francis for officials "to make every effort in terms of creativity and generosity to rekindle hope". https://www.thelocal.it/20140424/italy-factory-shutdown-threatens-4000-jobs Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:25:00 +0200 italy-factory-shutdown-threatens-4000-jobs Five people were detained Thursday as part of an inquiry into a fire last December that killed seven people in a Chinese-run garment factory in Italy's Tuscany region. https://www.thelocal.it/20140321/five-arrested-over-chinese-run-factory-fire Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:07:57 +0100 five-arrested-over-chinese-run-factory-fire Italian police on Thursday arrested eleven people in connection with an alleged Chinese immigration racket in and around the Tuscan town of Prato, where seven people died in a Chinese-run clothes factory on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.it/20131205/italian-police-bust-chinese-illegal-immigration-ring Thu, 05 Dec 2013 13:09:00 +0100 italian-police-bust-chinese-illegal-immigration-ring Italian prosecutors have said they were hunting for the owner of a Chinese-run garment factory and dormitory where seven workers died in a fire, as the town of Prato declared a day of mourning. https://www.thelocal.it/20131203/police-hunt-factory-owner-after-deadly-fire Tue, 03 Dec 2013 09:00:00 +0100 police-hunt-factory-owner-after-deadly-fire UPDATE: Seven people were killed and two others seriously injured on Sunday when a fire broke out in a Chinese-run garment factory in Italy's Tuscany region, regional authorities said. https://www.thelocal.it/20131201/four-killed-in-tuscan-clothes-factory-fire Sun, 01 Dec 2013 18:33:00 +0100 four-killed-in-tuscan-clothes-factory-fire Italian steel giant Ilva said it was being forced to suspend operations at seven plants on Friday and send 1,400 workers home because of a long-running legal row. https://www.thelocal.it/20130913/toxic-factory-shut-over-legal-row Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:29:33 +0200 toxic-factory-shut-over-legal-row Italian trade unions were holding urgent talks with officials from a Modena company late on Friday, after the owner decided to close up and move the business to Poland - without telling his employees. https://www.thelocal.it/20130823/uproar-as-factory-moved-to-poland-in-secret Fri, 23 Aug 2013 19:18:00 +0200 uproar-as-factory-moved-to-poland-in-secret