The Local Italy 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 town warns people to 'stop dying' A small medieval village in Calabria has taken a unique approach to the problem of its dwindling and ageing population: ban people from getting sick. https://www.thelocal.it/20150807/italian-town-warns-people-to-stop-dying Fri, 07 Aug 2015 15:52:51 +0200 italian-town-warns-people-to-stop-dying Germanwings jet lands in Venice after two fall ill A Germanwings plane on its way to Rome was forced to land at Venice's Marco Polo airport on Friday after two people on board fell sick, a spokeswoman for the company told The Local. https://www.thelocal.it/20150403/germanwings-jet-lands-in-venice-after-two-fall-ill Fri, 03 Apr 2015 19:27:19 +0200 germanwings-jet-lands-in-venice-after-two-fall-ill Outcry after Rome police call in sick on NYE The Italian government is threatening to take disciplinary action against Rome municipal police after just one in five showed up for work on New Year’s Eve. https://www.thelocal.it/20150102/outcry-after-rome-police-call-in-sick-on-nye Fri, 02 Jan 2015 15:24:00 +0100 outcry-after-rome-police-call-in-sick-on-nye Italian fined as Ebola joke triggers plane alert An Irish court on Friday ordered an Italian man to pay a €2,500 fine for charity after "a sick joke" about Ebola during a flight. https://www.thelocal.it/20141031/irish-court-fines-italian-for-sick-ebola-joke Fri, 31 Oct 2014 17:26:00 +0100 irish-court-fines-italian-for-sick-ebola-joke 'Italy is the real sick man of Europe' Italy comes under scrutiny in this week's edition of the British political magazine, The Spectator, with a front front cover saying "Arrivederci, Italy" and an article that speaks about a "very European tragedy". https://www.thelocal.it/20141023/italy-more-than-france-is-the-sick-man-in-europe Thu, 23 Oct 2014 15:06:00 +0200 italy-more-than-france-is-the-sick-man-in-europe Grandfather and sick boy in 'murder-suicide' The bodies of a grandfather and his five-year-old grandson, sick with a rare genetic disorder, were discovered on Sunday in a hugging embrace afloat in a river in northeast Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20141013/grandfather-and-sick-boy-in-murder-suicide Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:13:00 +0200 grandfather-and-sick-boy-in-murder-suicide