Tag Archives: ITALY

Italy cable car fall: Eight dead after accident near Lake Maggiore

IMAGE COPYRIGHT@EMERGENZAVVFimage captionEmergency services shared an image of the deadly crash on Sunday At least eight people have been killed after a cable car fell near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, according to rescuers and news reports. Local emergency services said the accident happened on a service transporting passengers from …

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Italian PM Conte resigns following pandemic criticism

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has resigned – and it is not clear if he will be able to form and lead a new coalition government. He has been criticised for his handling of the coronavirus crisis, in which more than 85,000 Italians have died. Mr Conte met President Sergio …

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Italy Announces Christmas And New Year Lockdown

Italy has ordered a nationwide lockdown over much of the Christmas and New Year period in an effort to combat a rise in coronavirus cases. The country will be under “red-zone” restrictions over the public holidays, with non-essential shops, restaurants and bars closed, and Italians only allowed to travel for …

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Greece secretly sent away more than 1,000 migrants, abandoning them on the open sea

At least 1,072 migrants were sailed to the edge of Greece’s water territory on inflatable life rafts and abandoned by Greek authorities, The New York Times reported. The Times analysed evidence from multiple sources, including academic researchers, the Turkish Coast Guard, and independent watchdogs groups. They found that there were at least …

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‘Disinfecting non-stop’ as Italy faces two new virus outbreaks

  Yellow police tape — a familiar sight across Italy since the coronavirus began sweeping the country in March — reappeared at the weekend outside a Rome squat where nine new cases have emerged. Health workers insist the outbreak affecting a Peruvian family and four of their close contacts is …

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Coronavirus: Italy PM Conte says lockdown exit plan coming

Italy will announce its plan to gradually exit its lockdown by the end of this week, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said. In a Facebook post, Mr Conte said the country could not give up its policy of “maximum caution”, and said Italy would reopen in line with “serious scientific policy”. …

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Ghanaian Student In Italy Dies of Coronavirus

Reports reaching Gossips24.com indicates a Ghanaian student in Italy has died of the deadly coronavirus after few days of showing symptoms and testing positive to the virus. Earlier, there was a notion that coronavirus could not infect, let alone kill the black race, but that appears to be a myth …

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