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 A Somali man who tortured dozens of his compatriots and other migrants in a Libyan camp was sentenced to life in prison by an Italian court on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.it/20171010/torturing-migrants-gets-somali-man-life-sentence-in-italy Tue, 10 Oct 2017 18:52:23 +0200 torturing-migrants-gets-somali-man-life-sentence-in-italy UPDATED: A 22-year-old man arrested in the central Molise region on Wednesday was allegedly planning a terror attack at Rome’s main train station, Termini. https://www.thelocal.it/20160310/italy-detains-imam-on-suspicion-of-hatching-rome-terror-attack Thu, 10 Mar 2016 10:58:37 +0100 italy-detains-imam-on-suspicion-of-hatching-rome-terror-attack Italy warned on Monday that Libya risked turning into "another Somalia" as it signed a joint statement with the US and several European allies condemning "barbaric" acts carried out by the Isis group there. https://www.thelocal.it/20150817/italy-says-libya-risks-becoming-another-somalia Mon, 17 Aug 2015 15:35:41 +0200 italy-says-libya-risks-becoming-another-somalia A Somali trafficker who raped and attacked migrants he had led through the desert to Libya to make the perilous crossing to Italy has been sentenced to 30 years in prison by an Italian court, media reported. https://www.thelocal.it/20150216/trafficker-jailed-for-30-years-for-raping-migrants Mon, 16 Feb 2015 09:46:00 +0100 trafficker-jailed-for-30-years-for-raping-migrants Migrants who survived a shipwreck in which 366 people died testified in court on Monday ahead of a trial against a Somali people smuggler who allegedly raped and tortured them during their voyage from Eritrea. https://www.thelocal.it/20140114/migrant-shipwreck-survivors-testify-in-italian-court Tue, 14 Jan 2014 09:20:00 +0100 migrant-shipwreck-survivors-testify-in-italian-court Dozens of asylum-seekers on a boat that sank near the Italian coast last month with the loss of 366 lives were raped and tortured in Libya before starting their journey, the police said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20131108/italy-shipwreck-migrants-were-raped-and-tortured Fri, 08 Nov 2013 17:27:00 +0100 italy-shipwreck-migrants-were-raped-and-tortured Italian police on Friday said they had arrested a suspected Somali trafficker behind a migrant boat that sank with the loss of 366 lives who also allegedly raped some of the women on board. https://www.thelocal.it/20131108/somali-arrested-for-italy-shipwreck-tragedy Fri, 08 Nov 2013 11:12:00 +0100 somali-arrested-for-italy-shipwreck-tragedy ‪Jama Musse Jama, an IT specialist and author, left Somaliland in 1992 to study for a degree in Pisa. He speaks to The Local about how, despite Italy's economic decline, he has worked here for more than 20 years.‬ https://www.thelocal.it/20131104/finding-work-is-tough-for-foreigners-and-italians Mon, 04 Nov 2013 18:45:00 +0100 finding-work-is-tough-for-foreigners-and-italians Three female migrants died during a treacherous voyage to Europe in a rubber dinghy and 174 others were rescued as they made their way to the Italian island of Lampedusa, media reported on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.it/20130804/three-migrants-die-trying-to-reach-italy-by-dinghy Sun, 04 Aug 2013 19:37:15 +0200 three-migrants-die-trying-to-reach-italy-by-dinghy