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Landslide leaves Italian town on cliff edge
Published on 27/01/2026
» NISCEMI, Italy - Homes in the Sicilian town of Niscemi have been left teetering on the edge of a cliff after a landslide that was triggered by a storm, Italy’s civil protection chief said on Tuesday.
Morocco fossils shed light on our African roots
AFP, Published on 08/01/2026
» PARIS - Where did our species first emerge? Fossils discovered in Morocco dating back 773,000 years bolster the theory that Homo sapiens originally appeared in Africa, scientists said in a study Wednesday.
Searchers seek missing after deadly Italy migrant shipwreck
AFP, Published on 15/08/2025
» LAMPEDUSA (ITALY) - Italian authorities searched Thursday for migrants missing at sea after two crowded boats sank off the island of Lampedusa, killing at least 27 people.
Cold baths, climate shelters as Southern Europe heatwave intensifies
AFP, Published on 29/06/2025
» ROME - Authorities across Southern Europe urged people to seek shelter Sunday and protect the most vulnerable as punishing temperatures from Spain to Portugal, Italy and France climbed higher in the summer's first major heatwave.
Europe bakes in summer’s first heatwave
AFP, Published on 28/06/2025
» MARSEILLE - Southern Europeans braced on Saturday for the first heatwave of the northern hemisphere summer, as climate change pushes thermometers on the world’s fastest-warming continent increasingly into the red.
Tech tycoon’s doomed superyacht lifted to surface
Reuters, Published on 21/06/2025
» PORTICELLO, Italy - Salvage experts lifted Mike Lynch’s sunken superyacht to the surface and began pumping seawater out of it on Saturday, 10 months after it sank off the coast of Sicily, killing the British tech tycoon, his teenage daughter and five others.
US-backed Gaza aid centres to close temporarily after 27 killed
AFP, Published on 04/06/2025
» GAZA CITY — Aid centres in hunger-wracked Gaza will temporarily close on Wednesday, a controversial US-backed agency said, with the Israeli army warning roads leading to distribution stations "are considered combat zones".
King Charles addresses Italian parliament, greets pope
AFP, Published on 10/04/2025
» ROME - Britain’s King Charles III told Italy’s parliament Wednesday that peace is “never to be taken for granted” before ending a visit to Rome with a surprise visit to a convalescing Pope Francis.
Italy's Salvini defiant as verdict due in migrant trial
AFP, Published on 20/12/2024
» PALERMO (ITALY) - Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini was defiant Friday as he arrived for the verdict in his long-running trial for blocking a migrant rescue ship at sea, for which he risks six years in jail.
Manslaughter probe begins in Sicily yacht tragedy
Reuters, Published on 24/08/2024
» TERMINI IMERESE, Italy - An Italian prosecutor has opened a manslaughter investigation into the deaths of British tech billionaire Mike Lynch and six other people who were killed when a luxury yacht sank off Sicily this week.