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 Italy authorised the arrival of two charity ships carrying more than 100 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean, under the terms of an agreement with other EU countries, the interior ministry said late on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20191204/two-ships-carrying-rescued-migrants-dock-in-italy Wed, 04 Dec 2019 09:47:19 +0100 two-ships-carrying-rescued-migrants-dock-in-italy Despite pressure from the UK and campaigners the EU's chief Brexit negotiator has again snubbed the idea that the rights of Brits in the EU and Europeans in the UK could be safe-guarded to avoid the upheaval of a no-deal Brexit. https://www.thelocal.it/20190705/brexit-withdrawal-agreement-or-nothing-eu-deals-new-blow-to-ring-fencing-rights-of-britons Fri, 05 Jul 2019 12:03:58 +0200 brexit-withdrawal-agreement-or-nothing-eu-deals-new-blow-to-ring-fencing-rights-of-britons Skip the Amalfi Coast and explore its wilder cousin, the unspoiled stretch of southern Campania where researchers first clocked on to the health benefits of traditional Mediterranean living. https://www.thelocal.it/20190412/weekend-wanderlust-simple-pleasures-in-cilento-the-home-of-italys-mediterranean-diet Fri, 12 Apr 2019 12:37:31 +0200 weekend-wanderlust-simple-pleasures-in-cilento-the-home-of-italys-mediterranean-diet Italy's Senate voted on Wednesday to block the trial of Interior Minister Matteo Salvini for allegedly illegally confining migrants rescued at sea by an Italian coastguard ship last year. https://www.thelocal.it/20190321/italian-senate-votes-to-save-salvini-from-prosecution-over-rescued-migrants Thu, 21 Mar 2019 10:35:18 +0100 italian-senate-votes-to-save-salvini-from-prosecution-over-rescued-migrants The Sicilian mafia sought to have a journalist killed for his reporting on their activities, investigators said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20180410/italian-mafia-kill-journalist-paolo-borrometi Tue, 10 Apr 2018 21:01:19 +0200 italian-mafia-kill-journalist-paolo-borrometi Italy's top court has upheld a ruling condemning an American man to nine years and four months in jail for killing his chronically ill wife. https://www.thelocal.it/20160401/italys-top-court-rejects-americans-appeal-in-mercy-killing-case Fri, 01 Apr 2016 18:01:18 +0200 italys-top-court-rejects-americans-appeal-in-mercy-killing-case He was forced into exile in 1946 after Italy abolished the monarchy and died in 1983, but the ghost of King Umberto II is said to linger in the Piedmont city of Asti. https://www.thelocal.it/20151126/ghostbusters-called-after-italys-last-king-spotted Thu, 26 Nov 2015 14:27:45 +0100 ghostbusters-called-after-italys-last-king-spotted Fiat Chrysler Automobiles chief Sergio Marchionne is raising pressure on much larger rival General Motors for merger talks, saying in a Detroit interview the logic of the deal is "irrefutable." https://www.thelocal.it/20150901/fiat-chief-pushes-for-gm-merger-talks Tue, 01 Sep 2015 10:28:48 +0200 fiat-chief-pushes-for-gm-merger-talks German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in Florence on Friday she wanted Greece to "remain part of our story", ahead of elections this weekend which could sweep the anti-austerity Syriza party to power and determine whether the country stays in the eurozone. https://www.thelocal.it/20150123/merkel-wants-greece-to-remain-part-of-our-story Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:35:00 +0100 merkel-wants-greece-to-remain-part-of-our-story The imprisonment and trials of Amanda Knox, found guilty of murdering her British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Italy in 2007, still discourages fellow American students from studying in the country, a new survey has found. https://www.thelocal.it/20140411/knox-trial-puts-fear-into-american-students Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:12:00 +0200 knox-trial-puts-fear-into-american-students A ten-year-old girl died on Saturday after going to a Rome clinic for a common eye operation, Italian media have reported. https://www.thelocal.it/20140331/10-year-old-dies-in-routine-eye-operation Mon, 31 Mar 2014 10:43:00 +0200 10-year-old-dies-in-routine-eye-operation A 53-year-old Italian woman choked to death on a banana at a psychiatric hospital in Puglia. https://www.thelocal.it/20130827/psychiatric-patient-dies-after-eating-banana Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:16:00 +0200 psychiatric-patient-dies-after-eating-banana