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 On April 25th, Italy marks the anniversary of the country's liberation from Nazi Occupation. https://www.thelocal.it/20170425/seven-faces-of-the-italian-resistance-movement-whose-stories-you-should-know Tue, 25 Apr 2017 14:04:11 +0200 seven-faces-of-the-italian-resistance-movement-whose-stories-you-should-know A total of around 19,000 people were evacuated from their homes on Sunday as the Italian army worked to detonate two unexploded bombs, one in Umbria and one in Emilia Romagna. https://www.thelocal.it/20180730/11000-evacuated-for-detonation-of-unexploded-ww2-bomb Mon, 30 Jul 2018 13:21:13 +0200 11000-evacuated-for-detonation-of-unexploded-ww2-bomb Divers from the Italian navy have recovered two American aerial bombs found in a river in the north-east of the country, in what the navy called a "delicate and complex operation". https://www.thelocal.it/20170918/italian-navy-divers-have-found-and-detonated-two-american-second-world-war-bombs Mon, 18 Sep 2017 12:34:02 +0200 italian-navy-divers-have-found-and-detonated-two-american-second-world-war-bombs A Saturday afternoon almost ended in tragedy for a group of children playing in a backyard in Velletri in the province of Rome, when a dog dug up a World War II hand grenade. https://www.thelocal.it/20150623/dog-digs-up-world-war-ii-hand-grenade Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:02:52 +0200 dog-digs-up-world-war-ii-hand-grenade A Second World War hand grenade manufactured in England has been discovered in a Bologna apartment, Italian media reported on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150428/english-wwii-grenade-found-in-bologna Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:00:00 +0200 english-wwii-grenade-found-in-bologna