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 Several thousand people protested Saturday on the France-Italy border against European states closing their frontiers to migrants, AFP journalists said. https://www.thelocal.it/20180715/pro-migrant-protests-on-france-italy-border Sun, 15 Jul 2018 11:47:00 +0200 pro-migrant-protests-on-france-italy-border Emmanuel Macron is not a welcome guest in the Italian border town of Ventimiglia, a flashpoint in Europe's migration crisis. https://www.thelocal.it/20180616/in-calais-of-italy-tension-soars-over-migrant-crisis Sat, 16 Jun 2018 02:06:27 +0200 in-calais-of-italy-tension-soars-over-migrant-crisis Children as young as 12 and other vulnerable migrants have physically abused, detained and forcibly returned to Italy by French border guards in breach of international norms, Oxfam said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.it/20180615/french-guards-abused-and-forcibly-returned-migrants-oxfam Fri, 15 Jun 2018 10:51:16 +0200 french-guards-abused-and-forcibly-returned-migrants-oxfam French police discovered the partially burned body of a man on the roof of a train travelling from northern Italy to southern France. https://www.thelocal.it/20180115/migrant-electrocuted-train-italy-to-france Mon, 15 Jan 2018 16:39:13 +0100 migrant-electrocuted-train-italy-to-france An Italian court on Thursday acquitted a humanitarian activist who had faced a possible prison term for trying to help a family of Sudanese migrants cross from Italy into France. https://www.thelocal.it/20170427/italy-acquits-activist-who-helped-migrants-cross-french-border Thu, 27 Apr 2017 18:37:57 +0200 italy-acquits-activist-who-helped-migrants-cross-french-border A British and two French volunteers were arrested in Italy while distributing food to migrants which is banned in the town of Ventimiglia near the border with France, their association and police said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.it/20170323/french-and-british-volunteers-arrested-for-giving-food-to-migrants-in-italy Thu, 23 Mar 2017 17:36:49 +0100 french-and-british-volunteers-arrested-for-giving-food-to-migrants-in-italy A man has been arrested by Italian police for allegedly smuggling migrants into France. https://www.thelocal.it/20160817/italian-police-arrest-man-for-smuggling-migrants-into-france Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:21:10 +0200 italian-police-arrest-man-for-smuggling-migrants-into-france Hundreds of migrants who have been rejected by France are to be transported to southern Italy before being deported, Italy’s chief of police Franco Gabrielli has said. https://www.thelocal.it/20160811/migrants-rejected-by-france-to-be-deported-from-italy Thu, 11 Aug 2016 13:10:38 +0200 migrants-rejected-by-france-to-be-deported-from-italy Authorities in the Italian-France border town of Ventimiglia are struggling to find accommodation for migrants after a spike in arrivals over the last seven days. https://www.thelocal.it/20160606/fresh-chaos-as-italian-border-town-sees-spike-in-migrant-arrivals Mon, 06 Jun 2016 16:20:01 +0200 fresh-chaos-as-italian-border-town-sees-spike-in-migrant-arrivals Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and French President Francois Hollande played down tensions on Sunday over a migrant crisis which has seen hundreds of asylum seekers blocked at the border between the two countries. https://www.thelocal.it/20150622/italy-france-play-down-migrant-border-drama Mon, 22 Jun 2015 10:13:32 +0200 italy-france-play-down-migrant-border-drama Italian police on Tuesday forcefully evacuated dozens of mainly African migrants from their shelter under a railway bridge on the Franco-Italian border, which has become a flashpoint in Europe's immigrant crisis. https://www.thelocal.it/20150616/police-clear-migrants-at-franco-italian-border Tue, 16 Jun 2015 19:27:43 +0200 police-clear-migrants-at-franco-italian-border Italy and France engaged in a war of words on Monday as a standoff over 250 Africans stuck at their common border exposed divisions over Europe's migrant crisis. https://www.thelocal.it/20150616/france-and-italy-clash-as-migrant-stand-off-opens-eu-rift Tue, 16 Jun 2015 10:42:53 +0200 france-and-italy-clash-as-migrant-stand-off-opens-eu-rift