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 Sicilian "Cosa Nostra" mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano, dubbed "the tractor" for the way he mowed his victims down, died on Wednesday after a long illness. https://www.thelocal.it/20160713/italy-mafia-boss-bernardo-the-tractor-provenzano-dies Wed, 13 Jul 2016 14:40:46 +0200 italy-mafia-boss-bernardo-the-tractor-provenzano-dies UPDATED: Italian police on Monday arrested 11 suspects linked to the fugitive head of the Sicilian mafia, including a former boss who ran a secret message system for the mobster using a sheep-based code. https://www.thelocal.it/20150803/italy-arrests-fugitive-mafia-godfathers-henchmen Mon, 03 Aug 2015 12:31:24 +0200 italy-arrests-fugitive-mafia-godfathers-henchmen Italy’s wealthy northern regions have been labelled “heartless and selfish” for turning away refugees, by the mayor of a Sicily port that has seen tens of thousands land there. https://www.thelocal.it/20150609/sicilian-mayor-slams-heartless-anti-migrant-north Tue, 09 Jun 2015 17:40:43 +0200 sicilian-mayor-slams-heartless-anti-migrant-north The Italian navy said it has taken control of a Sicilian fishing boat that was seized by armed men off Libya in the early hours of Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150417/navy-takes-control-of-boat-seized-off-libya Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:55:36 +0200 navy-takes-control-of-boat-seized-off-libya An Italian fishing boat was seized off Libya's coast in what is believed to have been an act of piracy, according to news reports. https://www.thelocal.it/20150417/italian-fishing-boat-seized-off-libyas-coast Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:40:25 +0200 italian-fishing-boat-seized-off-libyas-coast A Sicilian former mafia boss who faced extradition to Italy after living in Britain for more than two decades has had his sentence dropped, his lawyer said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20150402/extradition-of-ex-mafia-boss-from-uk-dropped Thu, 02 Apr 2015 10:13:52 +0200 extradition-of-ex-mafia-boss-from-uk-dropped Sergio Mattarella, a constitutional court judge, was sworn in on Tuesday as Italy's new president. https://www.thelocal.it/20150203/sergio-mattarella-sworn-in-as-italian-president Tue, 03 Feb 2015 11:11:00 +0100 sergio-mattarella-sworn-in-as-italian-president Italy's new president is a white-haired Sicilian who might never have got anywhere near the corridors of power but for the Mafia killing of his beloved elder brother. https://www.thelocal.it/20150131/sergio-mattarella Sat, 31 Jan 2015 15:24:00 +0100 sergio-mattarella Sergio Mattarella, a constitutional court judge from Sicily who has come to symbolise Italy's battle against organised crime, was on Saturday elected the country's president. https://www.thelocal.it/20150131/sicilian-judge-elected-italian-president Sat, 31 Jan 2015 14:54:00 +0100 sicilian-judge-elected-italian-president An Italian MP has slammed the treatment of migrants In Italy’s immigration reception centres after a young man from Gambia died at a centre in Sicily on Monday. https://www.thelocal.it/20140416/mp-slams-italy-migrant-health-care Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:09:00 +0200 mp-slams-italy-migrant-health-care A 17-year-old girl from the Sicilian province of Trapani, committed suicide after learning how to load a gun on the internet. https://www.thelocal.it/20140311/italian-teen-kills-herself-with-fathers-gun Tue, 11 Mar 2014 11:13:00 +0100 italian-teen-kills-herself-with-fathers-gun The family of a Sicilian woman who doctors declared dead last week believe she’s still alive as there are "no signs of decay" on her body. https://www.thelocal.it/20140213/dead-womans-family-sure-shes-still-alive Thu, 13 Feb 2014 13:29:00 +0100 dead-womans-family-sure-shes-still-alive Three Moroccan men are facing up to six years between them in a Sicilian jail for stealing seven fennel - a loot worth just €5. https://www.thelocal.it/20131210/fennel-thieves-face-six-years-in-sicilian-jail Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:13:00 +0100 fennel-thieves-face-six-years-in-sicilian-jail A young Sicilian man is among the 80 who died in a high-speed train crash in north-western Spain on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20130726/sicilian-man-dies-in-spanish-rail-crash Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:16:00 +0200 sicilian-man-dies-in-spanish-rail-crash