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 An Italian diver who led a search for victims of a Mediterranean shipwreck has described the horror of finding the body of a baby, whose mother had clutched him to her as they drowned. https://www.thelocal.it/20191017/unbearable-divers-describe-horror-of-finding-victims-of-lampedusa-shipwreck Thu, 17 Oct 2019 17:31:39 +0200 unbearable-divers-describe-horror-of-finding-victims-of-lampedusa-shipwreck Italian prosecutors called on the country's highest court on Thursday to drive home a guilty verdict against Francesco Schettino, the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that sank in 2012 leaving 32 people dead. https://www.thelocal.it/20170421/italian-prosecutors-call-for-costa-concordia-shipwreck-captain-to-be-jailed Fri, 21 Apr 2017 11:03:11 +0200 italian-prosecutors-call-for-costa-concordia-shipwreck-captain-to-be-jailed Italy's highest court on Thursday began reviewing the case of Francesco Schettino, the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship that sank in 2012 leaving 32 people dead. https://www.thelocal.it/20170420/top-italian-court-reviews-costa-concordias-captain-coward Thu, 20 Apr 2017 14:43:53 +0200 top-italian-court-reviews-costa-concordias-captain-coward Four people have been confirmed dead after strong winds caused a shipwreck in northern Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20170419/four-dead-after-shipwreck-in-northern-italy Wed, 19 Apr 2017 12:13:53 +0200 four-dead-after-shipwreck-in-northern-italy An Italian court ruled on Tuesday that the captain of a migrant boat that sank in 2015, killing up to 900 people, was responsible for the Mediterranean's worst disaster since World War II. https://www.thelocal.it/20161213/italy-court-jails-migrant-shipwreck-captain-for-18-years Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:54:56 +0100 italy-court-jails-migrant-shipwreck-captain-for-18-years At least 110 migrants are feared drowned after they were forced at gunpoint to set sail from Libya, while many more may have died in a separate shipwreck, survivors said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20161104/tragedy-on-med-after-migrants-forced-to-sail-at-gunpoint Fri, 04 Nov 2016 10:08:34 +0100 tragedy-on-med-after-migrants-forced-to-sail-at-gunpoint At least 110 people are feared drowned off Libya after a migrant shipwreck and more may have died in another stricken vessel, the UN's refugee agency said on Thursday, citing survivor testimony. https://www.thelocal.it/20161103/at-least-110-feared-dead-in-migrant-shipwreck-off-libya Thu, 03 Nov 2016 14:36:54 +0100 at-least-110-feared-dead-in-migrant-shipwreck-off-libya October 3rd 2016 marks three years since a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa killed 368 migrants, a tragedy seen by many as a key moment in Europe's migrant crisis. https://www.thelocal.it/20161003/italy-marks-first-remembrance-day-for-lampedusa-migrants Mon, 03 Oct 2016 17:39:44 +0200 italy-marks-first-remembrance-day-for-lampedusa-migrants "They squeezed them in everywhere for their last trip, packing them in like on the trains for Auschwitz". https://www.thelocal.it/20160721/migrant-shipwreck-bodies-packed-in-like-on-auschwitz-trains Thu, 21 Jul 2016 14:45:36 +0200 migrant-shipwreck-bodies-packed-in-like-on-auschwitz-trains Thirty-eight suspected migrant smugglers, who are also alleged to have been involved in organ trafficking, were arrested across Italy early on Monday morning. https://www.thelocal.it/20160704/italy-police-bust-migrant-smuggling-network-38-arrests Mon, 04 Jul 2016 12:16:01 +0200 italy-police-bust-migrant-smuggling-network-38-arrests At least 10 people died after an inflatable dinghy loaded with migrants began sinking in the Mediterranean on Thursday, the Italian coastguard said. https://www.thelocal.it/20160630/at-least-10-dead-on-sinking-migrant-boat-italian-coastguard Thu, 30 Jun 2016 12:56:08 +0200 at-least-10-dead-on-sinking-migrant-boat-italian-coastguard Italy is to begin removing the remains of hundreds of people from a sunken migrant boat after raising it from the Mediterranean seabed and towing it to Sicily, the navy announced on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160629/italy-to-remove-corpses-from-salvaged-migrant-boat Wed, 29 Jun 2016 17:04:18 +0200 italy-to-remove-corpses-from-salvaged-migrant-boat A week of shipwrecks and death in the Mediterranean culminated Sunday with harrowing testimony from migrant survivors who said another 500 people including 40 children had drowned, bringing the number of feared dead to 700. https://www.thelocal.it/20160529/forty-children-drown-as-shipwrecks-claim-up-to-700-survivors-say Sun, 29 May 2016 17:18:07 +0200 forty-children-drown-as-shipwrecks-claim-up-to-700-survivors-say Dozens of migrants were missing after an overloaded fishing boat sank off the coast of Libya on Friday, the latest tragic accident in the Mediterranean this week, Italian rescuers said. https://www.thelocal.it/20160527/dozens-missing-in-new-mediterranean-migrant-shipwreck-rescuers Fri, 27 May 2016 19:30:29 +0200 dozens-missing-in-new-mediterranean-migrant-shipwreck-rescuers Over 100 migrants were feared dead on Thursday after two crowded boats capsized off Libya in separate incidents, with one of the tragedies captured on video that shows dramatic rescues and desperate final moments. https://www.thelocal.it/20160526/100-people-feared-dead-in-wednesdays-migrant-shipwreck Thu, 26 May 2016 21:26:16 +0200 100-people-feared-dead-in-wednesdays-migrant-shipwreck Fifteen migrants are missing after their boat sank on Friday, the second shipwreck that day in the Mediterranean, bringing the number of lives lost to almost 100, the UN said on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160502/up-to-100-missing-in-two-migrant-shipwrecks-refugees-un-pozzallo-sicily Mon, 02 May 2016 10:09:11 +0200 up-to-100-missing-in-two-migrant-shipwrecks-refugees-un-pozzallo-sicily Costa Concordia skipper Francesco Schettino on Thursday begins his battle to avoid prison for causing the 2012 cruise ship disaster off Italy which cost 32 people their lives. https://www.thelocal.it/20160428/concordia-skipper-fights-to-avoid-prison-over-italy-disaster Thu, 28 Apr 2016 10:13:39 +0200 concordia-skipper-fights-to-avoid-prison-over-italy-disaster The wreck of a ship, thought to date back to either the 12th or 13th century, has been found off the coast of Salento. https://www.thelocal.it/20151228/centuries-old-shipwreck-found-off-salento-coast Mon, 28 Dec 2015 11:11:21 +0100 centuries-old-shipwreck-found-off-salento-coast They made it to Italy in the end but it was tragically nothing like the arrival they had dreamed of. https://www.thelocal.it/20150818/meds-latest-death-cargo-comes-ashore-in-sicily Tue, 18 Aug 2015 10:15:16 +0200 meds-latest-death-cargo-comes-ashore-in-sicily More than 300 survivors of the latest Mediterranean migrants boat tragedy arrived in Sicily on Monday aboard a Norwegian ship also carrying the bodies of 49 of its victims. https://www.thelocal.it/20150817/migrant-shipwreck-survivors-arrive-in-italy Mon, 17 Aug 2015 15:00:01 +0200 migrant-shipwreck-survivors-arrive-in-italy