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 Italy and Germany said on Friday they had temporarily closed their embassies in Yemen and were pulling staff out because of ongoing violence in the troubled country. https://www.thelocal.it/20150213/italy-shuts-yemen-embassy-over-violence Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:43:00 +0100 italy-shuts-yemen-embassy-over-violence Yemeni troops freed an Italian UN staffer and his driver on Tuesday, hours after they were abducted from a diplomatic district of the capital, the interior ministry said. https://www.thelocal.it/20140326/yemen-troops-free-italian-kidnapped-in-sanaa Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:28:00 +0100 yemen-troops-free-italian-kidnapped-in-sanaa Italian citizens face a heightened risk of being kidnapped in Yemen, Rome warned on Tuesday, amid global fears of an imminent Al-Qaeda attack. https://www.thelocal.it/20130807/italians-at-heightened-risk-of-kidnap-in-yemen Wed, 07 Aug 2013 10:33:00 +0200 italians-at-heightened-risk-of-kidnap-in-yemen