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 Up to 30 people are feared dead after a shipwreck off Libya, while some 50 migrants have been rescued from the waves, the EU's naval force said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20160526/up-to-30-people-dead-in-new-migrant-boat-disaster-reports Thu, 26 May 2016 15:42:47 +0200 up-to-30-people-dead-in-new-migrant-boat-disaster-reports Up to 200 people are feared to have died off the coast of Libya in the latest tragedy to strike migrants fleeing conflict in the hope of finding safety in Europe. https://www.thelocal.it/20150828/up-to-200-feared-dead-in-latest-migrant-disaster Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:26:26 +0200 up-to-200-feared-dead-in-latest-migrant-disaster EU president Donald Tusk is to host an emergency summit on the migration crisis on Thursday, after the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean in which more than 700 people are feared to have perished. https://www.thelocal.it/20150420/eu-mulls-summit-after-worst-migrant-tragedy Mon, 20 Apr 2015 10:11:25 +0200 eu-mulls-summit-after-worst-migrant-tragedy When the ship horns sound out on Italy's Giglio Island, the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship will set sail in a solemn final adieu after a tragedy at sea in which 32 people died and which transformed this sleepy Eden into an international salvage site. https://www.thelocal.it/20140721/concordia-tragedy-finally-put-giglio-on-the-map Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:51:00 +0200 concordia-tragedy-finally-put-giglio-on-the-map International human rights groups expressed shock and outrage as 300 people were feared dead in a boat tragedy off the Italian island of Lampedusa on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20131003/refugee-groups-outraged-as-hundreds-die-at-sea Thu, 03 Oct 2013 16:20:00 +0200 refugee-groups-outraged-as-hundreds-die-at-sea