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 Pope Francis began a visit Saturday to Madagascar, one of the world's most impoverished nations with a unique and threatened environment. https://www.thelocal.it/20190907/pope-to-address-environmental-concerns-in-speech-to-800000 Sat, 07 Sep 2019 12:50:57 +0200 pope-to-address-environmental-concerns-in-speech-to-800000 A Madagascar court handed four men the maximum sentence on Friday of hard labour for life over the mob lynching in 2013 of two Europeans and a local man, who were beaten and then burned on a beach. https://www.thelocal.it/20151010/killers-of-french-and-italian-men-sentenced Sat, 10 Oct 2015 19:37:32 +0200 killers-of-french-and-italian-men-sentenced Madagascar's state prosecutor on Thursday sought the maximum sentence of hard labour for life for 12 suspects on trial for the lynching of two Europeans and a local man in 2013. https://www.thelocal.it/20151009/suspects-face-hard-labour-over-lynching-of-italian Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:15:22 +0200 suspects-face-hard-labour-over-lynching-of-italian Thirty-seven people went on trial in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo on Tuesday for the lynching of two Europeans, including a Franco- Italian, and a local man wrongly accused of killing a young boy. https://www.thelocal.it/20150909/trial-of-suspects-in-tourist-mob-lynching-starts-in-madagascar Wed, 09 Sep 2015 10:17:04 +0200 trial-of-suspects-in-tourist-mob-lynching-starts-in-madagascar Rome confirmed on Friday that an Italian was lynched by an angry mob on a Madagascar tourist island which also killed a French citizen and a local man in a grisly rampage. https://www.thelocal.it/20131004/italian-organ-dealer-lynched-in-madagascar Fri, 04 Oct 2013 11:45:00 +0200 italian-organ-dealer-lynched-in-madagascar