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The rescue ship for migrants Sea Watch 3 will stay on for two weeks at the port of Catania in Sicily. This is done at the request of the Netherlands, says the Italian...

Averij has delayed the departure of the controversial ship the Sea-Watch 3 to a port of Sicily. The vessel with 47 migrants on board was struggling with the anchor causing the voyage...

The Italian government allocates 10 million euros for first aid in the Catania region in Sicily. The Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte has announced this via Twitter. The region is heavy...

The volcano Etna in Sicily has made more than four hundred people homeless after the earthquake this week. The great 'fighter' of quakes has also been killed.

The Sicilian mafia is in the corner where the blows fall. This week, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini declared that the Italian mafia will only be...

The rumbling volcano Etna has caused a relatively heavy earthquake in the night from Tuesday to Wednesday.

After the sudden eruption of Mount Etna on Monday, it is still uneasy around the mountain. There are hundreds of light and some heavier earthquakes registered around the mountain in Sicily.

A sudden eruption of Mount Etna has messed up air traffic on Sicily on Monday afternoon. The airport of Catania was closed as a precaution for incoming and outgoing flights.

The Italian police have arrested dozens of Mafiosi, including the new head of the Cosa Nostra in Sicily. In total, 46 arrests were carried out in the province of Palermo on Tuesday, police said.

On a Dutch sailing yacht that sailed near Sicily, 11 tons of hash was found. The two people on board have been arrested. According to the Italian customs they come from Bulgaria and they are about 40 years old. The yacht, the Leucothea, has been confiscated.

A Ikea subsidiary on the Italian island of Sicilia houses stray dogs that are part of the retail decor.

Because of an accident with a refugee boat off the coast of Sardinia, at least two people drowned and eight others are missing. This was reported by the Italian Coast Guard on Saturday.

The Italian government has made EUR 153.5 million available for emergency aid for areas affected by the severe weather. Rome also announced that it will invest 900 million euros in the prevention of natural disasters in the next three years.

The east of Sicily was hit by a small earthquake in the night from Friday to Saturday. Because of the quake with a force of 4.8, residents of the volcano were startled by Etna. Buildings suffered limited damage and several people were slightly injured.

Pope Francis has called on the Mafiosi in Sicily to give up their lives full of crime and violence and to opt for love. The prince of the Church said that members of organized crime, who are mostly practicing Catholics, 'can not believe in God and can be Mafiosi at the same time.'

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 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 countries that participate in missions with naval vessels in which migrants in need are taken on board should simply take those people home. Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said this Sunday, Italian media reported.

Police services in several EU countries have seized tens of millions of euros in cultural heritage. This happened during a major international campaign against a gang that deals with the excavation and trading of historical objects, reports Europol.

The Maltese government has put a plane on the chain of the German aid organization Sea Watch, which fishes migrants out of the sea for the Libyan coast. That report different media. The organization sails under the Dutch flag.

An Italian coast guard ship with more than nine hundred migrants on board has arrived in Italy. This happened a few days after the country had closed the ports for the rescue ship Aquarius, which had more than six hundred migrants on board. That vessel is now on its way to Spain.

The new Italian Minister for the Interior, Matteo Salvini, has announced that he wants to work closely with his EU colleagues, while still pursuing a hard line in the area of ​​migration issues. That reports the Italian news agency Ansa.

The most active volcano in Europe, Mount Etna, glides very slowly towards the sea. According to scientists, the mountain on the Italian island of Sicily moves 14 millimeters per year to the Mediterranean.

An explosion in a house in Catania in Sicily killed three people. According to the Italian news agency ANSA, two firefighters and a man who were in the home in the historic city center were among the dead.

With the arrest of 57 suspects, the police in Sicily struck sixteen Mafia lances on the Italian island. The \u0026 # x27; Operation Mountains \u0026 # x27; was carried out with four hundred police officers.

Two hundred Italian policemen hunt in Sicily for the missing Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, or 'Diabolik'. The 55-year-old man has been able to escape arrest for 24 years. He is suspected, among other things, of a series of murders.

The Italian police have arrested twenty-five Mafiosi in a large-scale operation in Sicily. The 49-year-old Maria Angela Di Trapani is one of the 'biggest fish' that the police managed to capture.

A tiny, idyllic village in Sicily is massively bought by Belgians. In Mussomeli there are many houses for sale for 1 euro and the southern neighbors have benefited from this, to the delight of the village itself. 'They saved us.'

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