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 Beach-goers in Nice witnessed a surprising sight last Thursday afternoon as a 40 metre-long yacht caught fire just off the Mediterranean coast. https://www.thelocal.it/20170822/in-pictures-forty-metre-long-yacht-catches-fire-off-the-coast-of-nice Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:03:46 +0200 in-pictures-forty-metre-long-yacht-catches-fire-off-the-coast-of-nice Three Germans died after a yacht harboured on the Italian Riviera was destroyed by a fire early on Thursday, according to Italian media reports. https://www.thelocal.it/20161229/germans-feared-dead-in-italian-riviera-yacht-blaze Thu, 29 Dec 2016 11:08:34 +0100 germans-feared-dead-in-italian-riviera-yacht-blaze Italian police Friday said they had arrested two Ukrainian nationals on suspicion of smuggling 16 Syrian refugees into the country by yacht from Turkey. https://www.thelocal.it/20160610/italy-arrests-two-ukrainians-for-smuggling-migrants-on-yacht Fri, 10 Jun 2016 14:10:24 +0200 italy-arrests-two-ukrainians-for-smuggling-migrants-on-yacht Police in Spain were investigating on Monday the deaths of a foreign couple whose bodies were found inside an Italian-flagged luxury yacht at the Mediterranean resort of Roses. https://www.thelocal.it/20160606/italian-woman-found-dead-on-yacht-in-spain Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:28:29 +0200 italian-woman-found-dead-on-yacht-in-spain The chairman of football club Napoli, Aurelio De Laurentiis, had a lucky escape on Sunday evening when his yacht when up in flames off the Italian coast. https://www.thelocal.it/20150921/napoli-chairman-escapes-burning-yacht Mon, 21 Sep 2015 13:40:33 +0200 napoli-chairman-escapes-burning-yacht Syrians paid traffickers €8,500 each for a place on board a yacht to Europe, seen as one of the safer methods of fleeing their country’s civil war across the Mediterranean. https://www.thelocal.it/20150422/syrians-pay-8500-for-yacht-to-europe Wed, 22 Apr 2015 13:08:57 +0200 syrians-pay-8500-for-yacht-to-europe An Italian couple wanted for faking their own bankruptcy have been caught by police disguised as holidaymakers, on board a luxury yacht registered to England. https://www.thelocal.it/20140827/italian-fraudsters-caught-on-english-yacht Wed, 27 Aug 2014 18:02:00 +0200 italian-fraudsters-caught-on-english-yacht A specially-designed yacht ordered by the late founder of Apple, Steve Jobs, has arrived at the old port of Genoa in Liguria, north-western Italy. https://www.thelocal.it/20130807/steve-jobs-yacht-sails-into-genoa Wed, 07 Aug 2013 13:22:00 +0200 steve-jobs-yacht-sails-into-genoa