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 Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco said on Friday that public intervention in the country's banks was not to be ruled out amid growing fears the sector's €360 billion ($398 billion) in bad debt would trigger a potentially contagious banking crisis. https://www.thelocal.it/20160708/bank-of-italy-head-hints-at-public-invervention-in-ailing-sector Fri, 08 Jul 2016 19:13:57 +0200 bank-of-italy-head-hints-at-public-invervention-in-ailing-sector Bangladesh police have charged seven people including a senior opposition official over the murder of an Italian aid worker last September, an officer said on Tuesday https://www.thelocal.it/20160628/bangladesh-charges-opposition-official-over-italians-murder Tue, 28 Jun 2016 11:46:01 +0200 bangladesh-charges-opposition-official-over-italians-murder Italy's highest court has acquitted a homeless man of stealing cheese and sausages, ruling that the theft of small amounts of food by the hungry poor is not a crime. https://www.thelocal.it/20160503/if-italys-poor-and-hungry-steal-food-its-not-a-crime-top-court Tue, 03 May 2016 14:23:48 +0200 if-italys-poor-and-hungry-steal-food-its-not-a-crime-top-court Hundreds of mourners flocked to Milan's Sforza Castle on Tuesday to pay their respects to Italian literary giant Umberto Eco, the intellectual phenomenon behind the best-selling "The Name of the Rose". https://www.thelocal.it/20160223/italys-castle-farewell-to-literary-giant-umberto-eco Tue, 23 Feb 2016 17:50:30 +0100 italys-castle-farewell-to-literary-giant-umberto-eco Images of clouds, lions and butterflies - alternating with polluted air and parched farmland - were projected on the famous facade of St Peter's Basilica at the Vatican on Tuesday night as global leaders try to thrash out a historic climate deal in Paris. https://www.thelocal.it/20151209/giant-animals-light-up-vatican-for-environment-show Wed, 09 Dec 2015 09:40:45 +0100 giant-animals-light-up-vatican-for-environment-show An Italian journalist is in trouble after entering St Peter's square with a fake gun to film a feature about security during the Catholic Jubilee of Mercy. https://www.thelocal.it/20151207/journalist-charged-for-st-peters-fake-gun-stunt Mon, 07 Dec 2015 11:19:01 +0100 journalist-charged-for-st-peters-fake-gun-stunt Ignazio Visco, the governor of Italy’s central bank, is being investigated over allegations of corruption, fraud and abuse of office related to the sale last year of Banca Popolare di Spoleto (BPS). https://www.thelocal.it/20151021/bank-of-italy-boss-in-corruption-probe Wed, 21 Oct 2015 12:20:31 +0200 bank-of-italy-boss-in-corruption-probe Italian oil giant Eni International on Wednesday won a bid from Mexico to extract oil from three fields in the country's gulf. https://www.thelocal.it/20151001/italys-eni-wins-mexican-bid-to-drill-for-offshore-oil Thu, 01 Oct 2015 10:42:49 +0200 italys-eni-wins-mexican-bid-to-drill-for-offshore-oil Two skeletons that were found just a few meters from the famous Temple of Concordia at Agrigento's Valley of the Temples could help shed new light on the history of the Sicilian Unesco site. https://www.thelocal.it/20150914/skeletons-unearthed-at-valley-of-temples Mon, 14 Sep 2015 14:52:22 +0200 skeletons-unearthed-at-valley-of-temples A 63-year-old man was arrested after a BBC journalist and his girlfriend caught him using his mobile phone to take videos up the skirts of unsuspecting women in Pisa’s Square of Miracles. https://www.thelocal.it/20150901/bbc-reporter-ensnares-pisas-up-skirt-voyeur Tue, 01 Sep 2015 09:55:16 +0200 bbc-reporter-ensnares-pisas-up-skirt-voyeur Despite signs of improvement in the Italian economy, a growing number of young nationals are among the surge of immigrants settling in the UK this year. https://www.thelocal.it/20150827/italians-help-fuel-surge-in-uk-immigration Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:11:27 +0200 italians-help-fuel-surge-in-uk-immigration The cyclist Vincenzo Nibali has been disqualified from the Tour of Spain after he was filmed hitching a high-speed lift by holding onto his team support car. https://www.thelocal.it/20150824/italian-champion-kicked-off-tour-of-spain-after-hitching-a-lift Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:53:37 +0200 italian-champion-kicked-off-tour-of-spain-after-hitching-a-lift A fire broke out on Monday at the Pietro Griffo archaeological museum in the Valley of the Temples, near Agrigento in Sicily. https://www.thelocal.it/20150804/blaze-damages-ancient-italian-unesco-site Tue, 04 Aug 2015 15:58:22 +0200 blaze-damages-ancient-italian-unesco-site Mafia infiltration in Italy’s institutions is deterring foreign investors and cost the country €16 billion in potential investment between 2006 and 2012, the head of Italy’s central bank has said. https://www.thelocal.it/20150115/mafia-deters-foreign-investors-in-italy Thu, 15 Jan 2015 13:46:00 +0100 mafia-deters-foreign-investors-in-italy Since the summer, many of you have kindly contributed your photos of Italy to the "picture of the day" feature on The Local Italy's Facebook page. As 2014 winds down, we've rounded up ten of the best. https://www.thelocal.it/20141230/top-ten-photos-of-italy-by-the-locals-readers Tue, 30 Dec 2014 13:52:00 +0100 top-ten-photos-of-italy-by-the-locals-readers US Secretary of State John Kerry will head to Rome on Sunday for a surprise meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his spokeswoman said. https://www.thelocal.it/20141211/john-kerry-to-meet-israel-leader-in-rome-on-sunday Thu, 11 Dec 2014 08:59:00 +0100 john-kerry-to-meet-israel-leader-in-rome-on-sunday Over two thousand people queued at a shopping centre in the Italian city of Matera on Wednesday morning to audition for roles in the remake of the epic Ben Hur. https://www.thelocal.it/20141126/over-2000-queue-for-ben-hur-roles Wed, 26 Nov 2014 15:59:00 +0100 over-2000-queue-for-ben-hur-roles Crime is putting investors off Italy, costing the economy an estimated €16 billion in foreign investment over the past eight years, the governor of the Bank of Italy said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20141107/crime-has-cost-italy-economy-bn-bank-of-italy-chief Fri, 07 Nov 2014 18:03:00 +0100 crime-has-cost-italy-economy-bn-bank-of-italy-chief An Italian magistrate who used an 'uncouth' word to refer to the breasts of a girl who had been sexually assaulted has been chastised by the country’s highest court. https://www.thelocal.it/20141007/italian-magistrate-uncouth-for-writing-breast-word Tue, 07 Oct 2014 18:37:00 +0200 italian-magistrate-uncouth-for-writing-breast-word