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 Italian authorities held a migrant rescue boat for 12 hours after it brought more than 230 people to a port in south western Italy following a four-day ordeal on the high seas, an NGO said on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.it/20180610/italy-holds-migrant-rescue-ship-as-hundreds-land Sun, 10 Jun 2018 17:32:11 +0200 italy-holds-migrant-rescue-ship-as-hundreds-land A ship chartered by the German NGO, Jugend Rettet, was blocked overnight off the southern island of Lampedusa by the coastguard as part of a 'routine check'. https://www.thelocal.it/20170802/migrant-rescue-ship-blocked-in-lampedusa-amid-ngo-crackdown Wed, 02 Aug 2017 14:34:12 +0200 migrant-rescue-ship-blocked-in-lampedusa-amid-ngo-crackdown The bodies of eight migrants have been found at sea off the coast of Libya by rescuers coming to the aid of four rubber dinghies, the Italian coastguard said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20170801/eight-migrants-found-dead-at-sea-off-libya-italy-coastguard Tue, 01 Aug 2017 19:57:04 +0200 eight-migrants-found-dead-at-sea-off-libya-italy-coastguard Rescuers aiding a dinghy packed with migrants off the coast of Libya said on Tuesday they had discovered 13 bodies, including pregnant women, as EU member states extended an anti-human trafficking scheme in the Mediterranean. https://www.thelocal.it/20170726/13-found-dead-in-med-dinghy-as-eu-extends-rescue-scheme Wed, 26 Jul 2017 10:10:52 +0200 13-found-dead-in-med-dinghy-as-eu-extends-rescue-scheme Privately-run aid organizations rescuing migrants off Libya have slammed the idea of creating a "code of conduct" for them to follow, saying European ministers tackling the crisis are bungling their response. https://www.thelocal.it/20170705/migrant-aid-groups-ngos-perplexed-official-response-europe-government-ministers Wed, 05 Jul 2017 10:55:32 +0200 migrant-aid-groups-ngos-perplexed-official-response-europe-government-ministers Two sociology professors analyse the question of whether NGOs bear responsibility for the migration crisis which has seen thousands perish en route to Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20170621/are-ngos-responsible-for-the-migration-crisis-in-the-mediterranean Wed, 21 Jun 2017 10:16:36 +0200 are-ngos-responsible-for-the-migration-crisis-in-the-mediterranean Italian Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said Saturday that he "agreed 100 percent" with a prosecutor's repeated suggestions that some charity boats rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean are colluding with traffickers in Libya. https://www.thelocal.it/20170430/italian-fm-backs-prosecutor-on-ngo-migrant-row Sun, 30 Apr 2017 16:25:19 +0200 italian-fm-backs-prosecutor-on-ngo-migrant-row Charity boats rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean are colluding with traffickers in Libya, an Italian prosecutor was quoted as saying on Sunday, stirring up a simmering row over aid groups' role in Europe's migrant crisis. https://www.thelocal.it/20170424/italy-prosecutor-labels-charity-rescue-boats-smugglers-taxis Mon, 24 Apr 2017 10:48:27 +0200 italy-prosecutor-labels-charity-rescue-boats-smugglers-taxis Over 250 African migrants were feared drowned in the Mediterranean on Thursday after a charity's rescue boat found five corpses close to two sinking rubber dinghies off Libya. https://www.thelocal.it/20170324/around-250-people-feared-drowned-in-dark-day-in-the-med Fri, 24 Mar 2017 09:58:44 +0100 around-250-people-feared-drowned-in-dark-day-in-the-med The fleet of privately-run aid vessels rescuing migrants off the Libyan coast and bringing them to Italy is "of interest" to Italian investigators, a Sicilian prosecutor told AFP on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20170217/italy-probes-private-migrant-aid-vessels-off-libya Fri, 17 Feb 2017 18:09:06 +0100 italy-probes-private-migrant-aid-vessels-off-libya Immigrants working in agriculture in southern Italy, who mainly come from Africa, face endemically poor living and working conditions despite pledges from the government to clean up the sector, an Italian medical charity said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20151218/italys-migrant-workers-face-dire-conditions Fri, 18 Dec 2015 08:56:22 +0100 italys-migrant-workers-face-dire-conditions Three people have been arrested in connection with the murder of an Italian doctor in Kenya. https://www.thelocal.it/20151130/three-arrested-over-italian-doctors-murder Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:14:11 +0100 three-arrested-over-italian-doctors-murder