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Jan 10, 2025 · Body found in Italy’s Dolomites believed to be that of missing Briton Sam Harris. A body found in the search for two missing British hikers in the Dolomites is believed to be that of 35-year-old Sam Harris, Il Corriere del Trentino reported on Thursday. The body was recovered by Italy’s alpine rescue service on Wednesday. It was located under a layer of snow at an altitude of about 2,600 ...

Nov 22, 2024 · Italy moves to bypass judges who ruled against migrant detentions in Albania. A proposal to entrust future rulings on migrant detentions to appeal courts instead of migration judges was approved by a parliamentary committee on Wednesday, sparking protests that the government was retaliating against the judiciary following legal …

Oct 23, 2024 · Italy's Justice Minister Carlo Nordio speaks during a press conference in March 2023. Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP Europe's human rights body slams political speech in Italy as 'xenophobic', government declares 19 countries ‘safe’ to salvage Albanian migrant deal, and more news from Italy on Wednesday.

Sep 6, 2022 · Meloni has always furiously denied that Brothers of Italy is fascist. This is despite the fact that FdI decided to keep the tricolour flame, the original symbol of the MSI, in its logo, and that up until 2017 the logo also featured the letters ‘MSI’. A 2021 undercover investigation by the Italian news outlet Fanpage showed footage of (among …

Aug 22, 2024 · Four emergency responders seriously injured in Rome wildfire. A firefighter and three Civil Protection members were rushed to Rome’s Sant’Eugenio Hospital on Wednesday after they suffered severe burns while battling a blaze that broke out in a field in Torre Spaccata, east of the city, Italian media reported. The flames, which were fanned by strong winds, also engulfed and destroyed a ...

Dec 31, 2024 · Italy records near-sixfold increase in extreme weather events over ten-year period. Italy experienced 351 extreme weather events in 2024 – nearly six times the figure recorded in 2015 (60), a report from Italian environmental group Legambiente said on Monday.. Northern Italy was the worst-hit area in 2024, with 198 extreme weather events, followed by the south (92) and centre of the country ...

Nov 16, 2024 · Even more alarmingly, real estate experts have already forecast that the so-called effetto Giubileo (‘Jubilee effect’) will result in a major increase in rents across the capital, with medium- to long-term affitti expected to shoot up by 15 to 20 percent amid an already dire shortage of affordable housing.. In some of the capital’s more …

Nov 29, 2024 · Italy revokes over 3,000 non-EU work applications in migrant smuggling crackdown. Italian police on Thursday revoked some 3,339 applications for the arrival of non-EU workers in Italy as part of an investigation into the smuggling of illegal immigrants by organised crime, according to the Italian Ministry of Labour. Police said that 42 different Italian companies in the agriculture ...