Tag: Sicily

American Danielle Collins advances at Palermo Ladies Open

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PALERMO, Italy — Top-seeded Danielle Collins reached the last 16 of the Palermo Ladies Open by beating Katharina Gerlach of Germany 7-5, 6-3 on...

Italian Coast Guard detains German migrant rescue ship

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ROME — A migrant rescue ship operated by a German charity has been detained in Sicily by the Italian Coast Guard, which found the...

Italian club Fiorentina names Gennaro Gattuso as coach

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FLORENCE, Italy — Former World Cup winner Gennaro Gattuso was named coach of Fiorentina on Tuesday. ...

Italy’s Lampedusa island slammed again by migrant arrivals

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LAMPEDUSA, Sicily — The tiny Mediterranean island of Lampedusa is in the throes of yet another season of migrants arriving by sea, and Ibrahima...

Judge dismisses migrant case against Italy’s Matteo Salvini

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MILAN — A judge in Sicily has dismissed a case against right-wing leader Matteo Salvini for keeping rescued migrants on board a coast guard...

More than 1,200 migrants reach Italian island on boats

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ROME — More than 1,200 migrants in several decrepit, overcrowded fishing boats on Sunday reached a tiny Italian island in a span of 12...

Judge slain in Sicily by mafiosi put on path to sainthood

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ROME — A magistrate slain by mobsters in Sicily and praised by two popes has been beatified by the Roman Catholic church on Sunday...

Italy set to vaccinate small island populations in one go

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ROME — Italy is set to start a mass vaccination campaign Friday on some of its small, remote islands with few residents and limited...

Charity, military vessels bring 800-plus migrants to Italy

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ROME — A charity group’s ship sailed toward a Sicilian port Saturday with 236 migrants who were rescued in the Mediterranean from human traffickers'...

Italy judge weighs Salvini trial for 2019 migrant standoff

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ROME — A judge in Sicily on Saturday began weighing whether to put former Interior Minister Matteo Salvini on trial for having refused to...