Orlando Low
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  LAMPEDUSA – At around 3:30am on Saturday morning, about 15 miles from the nearest coast, a ship of migrants capsized while attempting to make the crossing from North Africa, a Coast Guard spokesperson has said.

  The accident, 15 miles from the coast of Lampedusa – just at the limit of the Italian search and rescue jurisdiction - came at the end of a particularly long day for the Italian Coast Guard due to a high number of attempted landings by migrant ships.

20 Feb 2021
INSIDER NEWSDESK
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GENOA - After a bridge collapsed on the A26, killing 37 motorists, an investigation into the lack of security systems on Italian motorways was opened to include hundreds of tunnels deemed to be unsafe, officials say. The investigation is now being extended by six months.

19 Feb 2021
Orlando Low
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  ROME - In Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi's first speech to the Senate, he spoke of the need for unity and “national responsibility” in the fight against the pandemic. He said that “it is a trench in which we are fighting together. The virus is everyone’s enemy.” 

  The speech, written by Draghi himself, lasted 50 minutes, and was a call for support in the vote of confidence in the Senate, set to take place at 11:00pm on Wednesday evening.

17 Feb 2021
FRANCESCO TERRONE
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  NAPLES - A high profile government. This is the wish that out President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, has expressed in order to make the new government, and thus to reconstruct the country before any kind of debacle can befall it.

21 Feb 2021
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  ROME - In director Paul Greengrass’ new drama, adapted from the Western novel by Paulette Jiles, Tom Hanks plays a Civil War veteran named Captain Jefferson Kidd, who ekes out a modest living by travelling from frontier town to frontier town, in Texas in 1870, reading the news to ‘anyone with 10 cents and the time to hear it.’ Five years after the end of the war, a state of simmering hostility persists across much of Texas.

19 Feb 2021