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Italy: Tanker explodes after accident, 2 killed, 70 injured
Aug 07, 2018 04:31At least two people were killed and more than 70 others injured Monday when a tanker truck crashed into another truck and exploded, sending a fireball across a busy motorway in the northern Italian city of Bologna.
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Britain should impose its conditions on EU: Italy’s Salvini
Jul 30, 2018 00:32Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, a far-right politician known for his eurosceptic views, has called on Britain to impose its conditions on the European Union as it seeks to leave the bloc, saying otherwise it would be the EU which could come out having “swindled” the United Kingdom.
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Italy: Roma ‘forcibly’ evicted from Rome camp
Jul 27, 2018 08:05Police in the Italian capital have cleared a camp housing the minority Roma community despite a European Union court ruling against the eviction.
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Italy seeks to relocate 450 refugees to other EU states
Jul 14, 2018 12:29Italy seeks to relocate 450 refugees waiting off its shores to other countries of the European Union as Rome struggles to stick with its policy of banning humanitarian rescue ships from docking at its ports.
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Desperate refugees search for seasonal jobs in Italy
Jul 12, 2018 10:18A recent influx of refugees into the Piedmont region of northern Italy means that up to 400 are now sleeping rough in the town of Saluzzo, according to local authorities.
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China, Italy to build solar power plants in Iran
Jul 08, 2018 08:39Iran signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China and Italy to construct solar power plants in the central province of Yazd.
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Italy's closure of ports to worsen refugee crisis: MSF
Jul 07, 2018 00:46Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has warned that Italy's decision to close its ports to humanitarian rescue boats would entrap more refugees in Libya's detention centers and in the hands of traffickers, where they face torture.
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Malta detains second charity ship as death toll at sea rises
Jul 02, 2018 12:01For the second time in a week, Malta has detained a humanitarian vessel that normally rescues boat refugees off the coast of Libya, where two shipwrecks have claimed the lives of as many as 200 people in recent days.
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Italy’s far-right interior minister urges Europe-wide alliance against refugees
Jul 02, 2018 05:16Italy’s hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has called for the formation of a Europe-wide alliance of like-minded far-right parties to “defend their borders” against an influx of refugees into the continent.
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Italy refuses third refugee ship to dock, sparking new dispute with Malta
Jul 01, 2018 02:53The Italian government has once again closed the country’s sea ports to a rescue boat carrying 60 refugees stranded at sea off Libya, igniting yet another dispute with Malta over who should allow the boat to dock.