Libyan smugglers have recently started using new, fast and powerful motor boats to secretly transport migrants to Italy. That is their response to the successful policy against clandestine immigration by Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini. Often several of these new boats leave at the same time, making it even more difficult for the Libyan Coast Guard to stop them.
The studio of the Italian TV program Di Martedì (On Tuesday) was turned upside down. Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio, Minister of Labor and also party leader of the popular ruling Party Five Star Movement, entered the hall. The audience in the hall greeted him with overwhelming applause and cheers.
Italians are divided on the proposal of Minister of Labor \u0026 amp; Economic Development Luigi Di Maio, to keep stores closed on Sundays and during the holidays. Di Maio, of the populist Five Star movement, wants to ensure that families can spend the Sunday together.
Pope Francis had a private meeting Wednesday with U2 singer Bono in the Vatican. They discussed, among other things, the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church in Bono's native country of Ireland.
Both the Italian and international trade unions of journalists raise alarm about the curtailment of press freedom in Italy. The government in Rome even wants to stop indirect state support for media and calls on state-owned companies not to advertise in newspapers anymore. There should be as few 'impure' publishers of daily newspapers as possible.
A German detainee (30) threw two of her children from a staircase or pushed them into a Roman prison. One of the young victims did not survive, reports the Italian news agency ANSA. The other child, according to sources, is in a critical condition and has been transferred to the hospital.
Two thousand euros per bottle! You can not do that to a customer! Daniele Di Guiliomaria has just tasted a bit of whiskey from 1988. It is not easy for him. 'Pretty flat. Should have been bottled ten years ago. '
The couple who got unwell in the British city of Salisbury on Sunday did not come into contact with the nerve gas Novitsjok. That's what the police said in a statement.
According to Minister Horst Seehofer (Home Affairs), Germany has reached an agreement with Italy on taking back migrants. 'Only the signatures of my Italian colleague and myself are missing,' said the CSU member on Thursday in the German Lower House, the Bundestag.
From a bridge of a motorway in the Italian L \u0026 # x27; Aquila, pieces of concrete have come loose. The chunks ended up on a road under the highway on Monday evening, but nobody was hurt, reported ANSA news agency.
The Italian Government strongly rejects Austria's plan to offer Austrian citizens the Austrian nationality. She has learned that Vienna is working on a legal text that allows the inhabitants of the Alto Adige province, regardless of whether they speak German or Italian, to give an Austrian passport. 'That initiative is misplaced because of the disturbing founding effect that may possibly go,' said Rome in a reaction.
The Italian Public Prosecution Service is investigating the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs, Matteo Salvini. He is accused of heavy deprivation of liberty because he did not want to leave about 150 boat refugees on land. He could get fifteen years in prison.
The American entrepreneur Howard Schultz sees his dream come true in the center of Milan. The first Italian Starbucks opened its doors yesterday in the former post office on the square piazza Cordusio, which looks like a palace.
Italy is the land of cappuccinos and espressos, but the Italians are now also faced with frappuccinos. The American chain Starbucks has opened its first tent in the country on Friday. There was a long line with hundreds of tourists and Italians in front of the Milan office. 'I hope the coffee tastes better here than in America,' said a Milanese customer.
Italy continues to run into problems. ABN Amro sees more signs of rising government debt and a decline in growth as Italy continues its government plans.
A Polish woman stabbed a 54-year-old woman in the northern Italian Canneto sull'Oglio and injured three others with a butcher knife.
The African migrants who had to stay on board a ship in the port of Catania for over a week were detained in Libya for two years by smugglers. They were beaten, tortured and raped there before they made the crossing to Europe, reports the International Organization for Migration of the United Nations.
After the collapse of the bridge in Genoa, the Italian government will go through the licenses of all road operators. In addition, the private managers must also submit the maintenance and modernization measures. This is what traffic minister Danilo Toninelli told the parliament on Monday. He called the accident, in which 43 people died 'absurd' and according to him it could have been avoided.
The maritime health authorities in the Italian city of Catania (Sicily) have ordered that sixteen passengers on the Italian coast guard vessel Diciotti should be immediately brought ashore. It concerns eleven women and five men. Two of them may have tuberculosis, Italian media reports.
The UN refugee organization wants EU countries to make reception places available for around 150 rescued people on board an Italian coastguard ship. The UNHCR also calls on the Italian government to immediately dispose of the migrants concerned.
Dozens of young migrants have after a few days left the Italian coast guard ship in the port of Catania. The nearly thirty minors left the ship from Wednesday to Thursday, reports Italian media. The adults must stay on board.
Italy only wants to include the children on board the Italian coast guard ship that has been in Catania with 177 refugees since Monday. That is what the Minister of Home Affairs Matteo Salvini said on a Facebook video on Wednesday evening. The other of the 177 migrants are not allowed to leave the ship. According to aid organizations, there are about thirty minors on the ship.
The European Commission has sent EUR 9 million to Italy to improve access to health care for asylum seekers in Italian reception camps. The emergency aid is targeted at some 42,000 people, mainly women and children, who are trapped in Sicily and on the mainland, including in Tuscany and around Rome.
The Italian actress Asia Argento denies that she is guilty of sexual misconduct. The prominent # MeToo activist says, according to The Guardian, 'shocked and hurt' by accusations that she abused the then seventeen-year-old actor Jimmy Bennett.
The police Rome is hunting for two tourists who washed themselves in an antique fountain and even went out of their clothes.
Rescue workers found three hikers alive after the drama in a ravine in Calabria. They turned out to be camping north of the crash site. The young people of 21, 22 and 23 did not have access to their mobile phones there, local sources say to the ANSA news agency.
An Italian coast guard ship with 177 rescued migrants on board has arrived in the port of Catania. However, migrants are only allowed to disembark if other EU member states are prepared to receive them, say sources within the Ministry of the Interior against ANSA news agency.
A bizarre fish species that is older than the dinosaurs threatens to die out.
At least five hikers were killed after they were dragged along by rising water in the south of Italy. The victims were in a ravine in Calabria. Heavy rainfall caused the water to rise in a stream, reports Italian media.
The British car factory Aston Martin will build 28 cars that are almost identical to the type DB5 that became famous in the James Bond films of the sixties.
