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 Amanda Knox is back in Italy for the first time since being released from prison in 2011, following her acquittal over the murder of British student Meredith Kercher. https://www.thelocal.it/20190613/amanda-knox-returns-to-italy-for-the-first-time-since-leaving-prison Thu, 13 Jun 2019 15:50:03 +0200 amanda-knox-returns-to-italy-for-the-first-time-since-leaving-prison Amanda Knox has announced she will return to Italy next month for the first time since being cleared in 2015 of killing her former flatmate Meredith Kercher. https://www.thelocal.it/20190508/amanda-knox-to-return-to-italy-next-month Wed, 08 May 2019 13:34:59 +0200 amanda-knox-to-return-to-italy-next-month Europe's top rights court on Thursday ordered Italy to pay thousands of euros in damages to Amanda Knox, the American student acquitted in 2015 of the gruesome killing of her British housemate after spending years behind bars. https://www.thelocal.it/20190124/italy-police-amanda-knox-human-rights-court-echr Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:31:26 +0100 italy-police-amanda-knox-human-rights-court-echr An Italian court on Tuesday blocked a reopening of the Amanda Knox murder saga by refusing to review the conviction of the man jailed for the grisly 2007 killing of British student Meredith Kercher. https://www.thelocal.it/20170110/meredith-kercher-murder-case-italy-blocks-new-review Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:51:05 +0100 meredith-kercher-murder-case-italy-blocks-new-review Streaming site Netflix is set to launch a new documentary on Amanda Knox, who was twice convicted and then acquitted of killing her roommate in Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20160927/netflix-launches-illuminating-amanda-knox-documentary Tue, 27 Sep 2016 12:49:07 +0200 netflix-launches-illuminating-amanda-knox-documentary Raffaelle Sollecito, convicted in January alongside Amanda Knox of killing British student Meredith Kercher, is unable to vouch for Knox’s whereabouts for part of the evening leading up to Kercher’s death, it was revealed during a press conference on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140701/sollecito-was-not-with-sollecito-the-entire-evening Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:39:00 +0200 sollecito-was-not-with-sollecito-the-entire-evening Legal proceedings in England in the case of the murdered British exchange student Meredith Kercher came to an end on Tuesday, more than six years after her death in Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20140325/uk-inquest-on-kercher-death-ends-seven-years-on Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:20:00 +0100 uk-inquest-on-kercher-death-ends-seven-years-on American Amanda Knox and her Italian former boyfriend face their fourth verdict in six years for the murder and sexual assault of a British student Meredith Kercher, who was brutally killed in Italy's city of Perugia in 2007. https://www.thelocal.it/20140129/verdict-looms-in-amanda-knox-murder-retrial Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:32:28 +0100 verdict-looms-in-amanda-knox-murder-retrial The ruling in the retrial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher has been postponed until January 30th. https://www.thelocal.it/20140108/kercher-murder-retrial-knox-ruling-set-for-january-20th Wed, 08 Jan 2014 17:51:00 +0100 kercher-murder-retrial-knox-ruling-set-for-january-20th US student Amanda Knox emailed the Italian court hearing her murder retrial saying she was afraid to attend and was not a "monster", in what the judge Tuesday branded an unusual move. https://www.thelocal.it/20131217/i-am-not-a-monster-knox Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:27:00 +0100 i-am-not-a-monster-knox DNA tests have revealed there were "no traces" of British student Meredith Kercher's blood on the kitchen knife she was thought to have been killed with. https://www.thelocal.it/20131014/kerchers-dna-was-not-on-alleged-murder-knife Mon, 14 Oct 2013 11:18:00 +0200 kerchers-dna-was-not-on-alleged-murder-knife A transgender mafia turncoat on Friday accused her own brother in court of the grisly murder of British student Meredith Kercher in 2007 at the retrial of Amanda Knox and her Italian ex-lover. https://www.thelocal.it/20131004/ex-mobster-accuses-brother-in-knox-retrial Fri, 04 Oct 2013 15:11:00 +0200 ex-mobster-accuses-brother-in-knox-retrial The family of Meredith Kercher, the 21-year-old British student murdered in Perugia in 2007, said in a letter to the Florence court where the retrial of Amanda Knox and Rafaelle Sollecito is being held that they "desperately want to discover the truth and to find justice for Meredith". https://www.thelocal.it/20131001/we-need-to-know-what-happened-kerchers Tue, 01 Oct 2013 12:37:00 +0200 we-need-to-know-what-happened-kerchers Judges at the retrial of Amanda Knox for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher on Monday ordered new DNA testing on the alleged murder weapon, a kitchen knife, on the first day of hearings. https://www.thelocal.it/20131001/judge-orders-new-dna-test-in-knox-retrial Tue, 01 Oct 2013 10:28:00 +0200 judge-orders-new-dna-test-in-knox-retrial The retrial of Amanda Knox and her former lover Raffaele Sollecito for the murder of British student Meredith Kercher begins in Florence on Monday. While Knox has decided not to attend, Sollecito has said he will attend court later on in the trial. https://www.thelocal.it/20130930/knoxs-initial-claims-will-be-reexamined-at-retrial Mon, 30 Sep 2013 10:59:00 +0200 knoxs-initial-claims-will-be-reexamined-at-retrial The family of Meredith Kercher, the British student murdered in Perugia in 2007, does not want Amanda Knox, whose retrial for the murder begins in Florence on Monday, to visit her grave. https://www.thelocal.it/20130929/kerchers-do-not-want-knox-to-visit-grave Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:42:00 +0200 kerchers-do-not-want-knox-to-visit-grave The family of Meredith Kercher, the British student murdered in Perugia in 2007, is gathering momentum for a trust fund set up in Meredith's name amid hope that the impending retrial of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito will give them clarity about how she died. https://www.thelocal.it/20130927/kerchers-seek-clarity-six-years-after-murder Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:37:00 +0200 kerchers-seek-clarity-six-years-after-murder American Amanda Knox will not return to Italy for a retrial - due to begin next month - for the 2007 death of her British roommate, her lawyer said on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.it/20130826/knox-will-not-attend-italy-murder-retrial-lawyer Mon, 26 Aug 2013 08:55:00 +0200 knox-will-not-attend-italy-murder-retrial-lawyer Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, the couple acquitted of murdering British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, shared a “passionate embrace” in New York yesterday, hours after being ordered to return to Italy for a retrial, a British newspaper has reported. https://www.thelocal.it/20130620/knox-and-sollecito-seen-together-hours-after-call-to-retrial Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:43:00 +0200 knox-and-sollecito-seen-together-hours-after-call-to-retrial A ruling acquitting US student Amanda Knox over the brutal murder of her British housemate in 2007 had numerous contradictory and incoherent elements, Italy's highest appeals court said Tuesday, explaining its decision to order a retrial. https://www.thelocal.it/20130618/knox-acquittal-incoherent-italian-court Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:26:00 +0200 knox-acquittal-incoherent-italian-court