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 More than 200 people, including 60 children, drowned as a result of delayed action by Italian authorities, the UN found. https://www.thelocal.it/20210128/italy-failed-to-save-over-200-drowning-migrants-un-says Thu, 28 Jan 2021 13:13:20 +0100 italy-failed-to-save-over-200-drowning-migrants-un-says Italy on Sunday authorised charity vessel Ocean Viking to transfer 180 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean to a ship in Sicily for quarantine, the ship's operator and the government said. https://www.thelocal.it/20200706/thank-you-italy-rescued-migrants-stranded-off-sicily-to-disembark Mon, 06 Jul 2020 11:01:40 +0200 thank-you-italy-rescued-migrants-stranded-off-sicily-to-disembark Some 162 migrants rescued off the Libyan coast have disembarked in the southern Italian port of Taranto, the NGO SOS Mediterranee said Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20191224/162-migrants-rescued-off-libya-land-in-italy Tue, 24 Dec 2019 15:41:55 +0100 162-migrants-rescued-off-libya-land-in-italy Italian coast guards on Saturday said they had rescued 143 migrants off the island of Lampedusa although around 20 others were apparently missing according to the survivors. https://www.thelocal.it/20191124/italian-coast-guards-rescue-143-migrants-from-l Sun, 24 Nov 2019 11:03:22 +0100 italian-coast-guards-rescue-143-migrants-from-l The Italian coastguard said on Monday it had recovered the bodies of 13 women, some of them pregnant, after a boat carrying around 50 migrants capsized off Lampedusa. https://www.thelocal.it/20191007/italian-coastguard-searching-for-survivors-after-migrant-boat-capsizes-off-sicily Mon, 07 Oct 2019 11:31:34 +0200 italian-coastguard-searching-for-survivors-after-migrant-boat-capsizes-off-sicily Four EU countries on Monday agreed a new temporary system to automatically distribute migrants arriving in Italy and Malta from across the Mediterranean that will be discussed by the full EU next month. https://www.thelocal.it/20190923/eu-ministers-agree-new-draft-migrant-rules-to-ease-pressure-on-italy Mon, 23 Sep 2019 20:08:39 +0200 eu-ministers-agree-new-draft-migrant-rules-to-ease-pressure-on-italy Two Italian officers accused of delaying the response to a 2013 shipwreck in which some 260 migrants drowned will stand trial for manslaughter, a court in Italy ruled on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20190916/two-italian-officers-to-stand-trial-for-2013-shipwreck-260-migrants-dead Mon, 16 Sep 2019 17:33:40 +0200 two-italian-officers-to-stand-trial-for-2013-shipwreck-260-migrants-dead The German captain of rescue vessel Sea Watch 3, Carola Rackete, who was temporarily arrested in Italy for docking without permission so she could let rescued migrants land, said on Tuesday her "actions were justified". https://www.thelocal.it/20190911/my-actions-were-justified-sea-watch-captain-carola-rackete-defends-bringing-rescued-migrants-to-italy Wed, 11 Sep 2019 12:01:29 +0200 my-actions-were-justified-sea-watch-captain-carola-rackete-defends-bringing-rescued-migrants-to-italy For Cristina Cattaneo, the thousands of migrants who have died trying to reach Europe's shores in recent years deserve the same as any other disaster victims: a concerted effort to find out who they were and let their families know the painful truth about their fate. https://www.thelocal.it/20190909/italian-pathologist-fighting-to-identify-drowned-migrants-mediterranean Mon, 09 Sep 2019 12:01:16 +0200 italian-pathologist-fighting-to-identify-drowned-migrants-mediterranean Italian authorities on Tuesday impounded charity rescue vessel Mare Jonio and fined its crew €300,000 for entering port illegally in Lampedusa. https://www.thelocal.it/20190903/italy-seizes-migrant-rescue-ship-mare-jonio Tue, 03 Sep 2019 19:58:11 +0200 italy-seizes-migrant-rescue-ship-mare-jonio The UN voiced concern on Tuesday over a law approved by Italy's parliament that imposes stiffer penalties on NGO migrant rescue boats in the Mediterranean, demanding humanitarian work "not be criminalized or stigmatized". https://www.thelocal.it/20190806/security-decree-un-concerned-by-italy-new-law-to-fine-migrant-rescue-ships Tue, 06 Aug 2019 17:53:13 +0200 security-decree-un-concerned-by-italy-new-law-to-fine-migrant-rescue-ships Italy will allow 116 rescued migrants on its Gregoretti coastguard ship to disembark "within hours", Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said on Wednesday, after EU countries agreed to share responsibility for looking after them. https://www.thelocal.it/20190731/italy-to-allow-116-rescued-migrants-to-disembark Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:56:54 +0200 italy-to-allow-116-rescued-migrants-to-disembark Malta on Friday headed off a brewing standoff between a charity rescue ship and Italy's anti-immigration interior minister by offering to take in dozens of migrants it had rescued in the Mediterranean. https://www.thelocal.it/20190705/italy-malta-migrant-rescue-ship-mediterranea-alex-swap Fri, 05 Jul 2019 16:32:29 +0200 italy-malta-migrant-rescue-ship-mediterranea-alex-swap The captain of a charity rescue ship blocked off Italy with 40 people on board said Friday the situation was "incredibly tense", as Rome signalled the stand-off may be nearing a close after other European countries offered to take the migrants in. https://www.thelocal.it/20190628/italy-allows-two-migrants-off-the-sea-watch-3 Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:27:29 +0200 italy-allows-two-migrants-off-the-sea-watch-3 The captain of a migrant rescue boat that entered Italian waters despite the threat of a hefty fine said she is prepared to go to prison over her bid to bring the migrants to safety. https://www.thelocal.it/20190627/sea-watch-captain-ready-to-go-to-jail-for-bringing-stranded-migrants-to-italy Thu, 27 Jun 2019 11:40:05 +0200 sea-watch-captain-ready-to-go-to-jail-for-bringing-stranded-migrants-to-italy The Sea Watch 3 NGO boat carrying migrants rescued in the Mediterranean said on Wednesday it was headed for Lampedusa island despite the threat of hefty fines from Italy's anti-immigration interior minister. https://www.thelocal.it/20190626/sea-watch-rescue-ship-heads-for-italy-without-permission Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:20:34 +0200 sea-watch-rescue-ship-heads-for-italy-without-permission Italy's anti-immigration interior minister marked World Refugee Day on Thursday by insisting migrants rescued by a charity vessel are banned from entering Italian territorial waters. https://www.thelocal.it/20190620/more-than-40-migrants-left-in-limbo-on-rescue-boat-off-italy Thu, 20 Jun 2019 13:07:31 +0200 more-than-40-migrants-left-in-limbo-on-rescue-boat-off-italy On a moonlit night off Italy's coast, fishermen are hauling in the usual catch: cuttlefish, red mullet and plastic waste. But this time, they won't throw the rubbish back. https://www.thelocal.it/20190606/how-italian-fishermen-are-helping-scientists-study-plastic-pollution-in-the-med Thu, 06 Jun 2019 11:31:11 +0200 how-italian-fishermen-are-helping-scientists-study-plastic-pollution-in-the-med The Italian navy rescued 100 migrants stranded in the Mediterranean on Thursday, as 75 other migrants found clinging to a tuna pen were taken to Malta, officials said. https://www.thelocal.it/20190530/italian-navy-rescues-100-people-stranded-in-the-med Thu, 30 May 2019 15:26:11 +0200 italian-navy-rescues-100-people-stranded-in-the-med More than 60 migrants rescued at sea by the Italian navy and an NGO ship disembarked in Italy on Friday, despite Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's "closed ports" policy. https://www.thelocal.it/20190510/italian-ships-rescue-66-people-off-libya Fri, 10 May 2019 11:00:29 +0200 italian-ships-rescue-66-people-off-libya