Despite the pandemic, non-assistance and deliberate delays have become the new norm in Maltese and Italian rescues zones, causing more disappearances and deaths, both at sea and in Libya Valeria […]
Source: BBC An Italian priest who gave a respirator to a younger coronavirus patient he did not know has died of the disease. Father Giuseppe Berardelli, 72, died in hospital […]
Source: Arab News MOSCOW: The Russian military will start sending medical help to Italy from Sunday in order to help it battle the new coronavirus after receiving an order from President Vladimir Putin, Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement. Putin spoke to Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Saturday, […]
Source: The Spiegel They look like images from an Armageddon dystopia, but they were taken in a regional hospital in the northern Italian town of Cremona. They show doctors wearing full protective suits, goggles, facemasks and clear plastic face shields as they tend to patients lying half-naked on their beds, […]
As northern Italy struggles with Europe’s first and largest outbreak of Covid-19, Robert Fisk examines the region’s links to China @indyvoices 8 hours ago ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT So […]
greenpeace finds hundreds of tonnes end up in landfill or burned at illegal factories Angela Giuffrida in Rome Mon 10 Feb 2020 THE GUARDIAN The Italian government has been urged […]
At least 12 people died Saturday when a boat loaded with migrants sank in the Ionian Sea, the Greek coastguard said. “So far 12 bodies have been recovered. The […]
Source: The Guardian BY Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo Pope Francis has appointed one of Italy’s leading anti-mafia prosecutors as president of the Vatican court, days after five senior officials were suspended in an […]
Source: The Guardian Italy’s constitutional court has ruled it was not always a crime to help someone in “intolerable suffering” kill themselves, opening the way for a change of law […]
VALERIA GIANOTTA Published 26.07.2019 01:05 In Italy, the case of Carola Rackete, the captain of the nongovernmental organization (NGO) Sea-Watch 3 ship that forced the naval blockade on the […]
DAILY SABAH WITH AGENCIES Istanbul Published 08.07.2019 Rescue ships are defying Italy and Malta’s hard-line policies of closing their harbors to them and migrants saved at sea are caught up […]
European Policies Create New Dangers on Mediterranean In just a few years, the dreams of European immigration hardliners have become reality on the Mediterranean. Volunteer sea rescue operations have been […]
Epigraph: Then We caused Our Messengers to follow in their footsteps; and We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow them, and We gave him the Gospel. And We placed […]
The battle for ideological hegemony in the city mirrors that of wars gone by Alessio Colonnelli The Independent Voices Seventy-five years ago this month Rome was liberated by Anglo-American forces […]
Source: The New York Times By Jason Horowitz ROME — For nearly a year, Pope Francis remained mostly silent in the face of a searing accusation by a former papal ambassador to […]
Source: The Washington Post By Chico Harlan ROME — The leader of his favorite political party and the leader of his faith had staked out such differing positions that Stefano Dente felt […]
Source: Associated Press By COLLEEN BARRY MILAN (AP) — Italy’s populist interior minister is uniting Europe’s right-wing parties under an anti-migrant, anti-Islam, anti-bureaucracy banner for this month’s European Union elections, […]
APR 3, 2019 The Caesars embraced newcomers, less out of idealism than out of self-interest. BARRY STRAUSS How “Roman” was the Roman Empire? Well, by some measures: not very. As the Roman emperors sought to expand and strengthen their empire, they recognized that immigration was a means for both. Although […]
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON MARCH 10, 2019 Mounsef al-Mkhayar, 22, an Islamic state fighter of Morrocan descent and Italian citizenship, gestures during an interview with Reuters, in Qamishli, […]
