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Aug 22, 2024 · Four emergency responders seriously injured in Rome wildfire. A firefighter and three Civil Protection members were rushed to Rome’s Sant’Eugenio Hospital on Wednesday after they suffered severe burns while battling a blaze that broke out in a field in Torre Spaccata, east of the city, Italian media reported. The flames, which were fanned by strong winds, also engulfed and destroyed a ...

Jan 11, 2024 · Italy’s top story on Thursday: Italy's emergency departments are facing a "crisis", Italy's doctors' association has warned, as the number of patients being hospitalised with severe cases of seasonal flu and Covid has soared in recent weeks. There was alarm after two patients in the northern city of Vicenza died of the H1N1 flu virus, and three more were in …

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Sep 6, 2022 · Meloni has always furiously denied that Brothers of Italy is fascist. This is despite the fact that FdI decided to keep the tricolour flame, the original symbol of the MSI, in its logo, and that up until 2017 the logo also featured the letters ‘MSI’. A 2021 undercover investigation by the Italian news outlet Fanpage showed footage of (among …

Aug 23, 2024 · Emergency responders injured in Rome blaze fight for life. A firefighter and three Civil Protection workers were in life-threatening condition after sustaining severe burns while battling a fire in Rome’s Torre Spaccata area on Wednesday, the head of Sant'Eugenio Hospital’s burn unit Giuseppe Spaltro said, according to Ansa.. The firefighter, aged 51, was critically injured after suffering ...

Oct 15, 2024 · Police investigations were underway to determine the exact dynamics of the collapse and establish any possible responsibility. Italy registered 680 fatal work-related accidents over the first eight months of 2024 – up by 3.5 percent compared to the same period in 2023, Ansa reported on Sunday. Italy’s underground rail network smaller than Madrid’s: report

Nov 6, 2024 · Teacher linked to late mafia boss Messina Denaro handed 11-year prison sentence. Laura Bonafede, an elementary school teacher who lived with late Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro for years, was sentenced to 11 years and four months in prison for mafia-type association (associazione di stampo mafioso) on Tuesday, Ansa reported.Bonafede, who is the daughter of local mafia boss Leonardo ...

Nov 21, 2024 · Italy’s parliament approves long-planned Highway Code reform. Italy's upper house of parliament on Wednesday signed off on a long-planned reform of the Italian Highway Code cracking down on drink-driving, mobile phone use and e-scooters, Ansa reported. Following its approval in the lower house in March, the bill passed in the Senate with 83 votes in favour, 47 against and one abstention.

Oct 23, 2024 · Italy's Justice Minister Carlo Nordio speaks during a press conference in March 2023. Photo by Tiziana FABI / AFP Europe's human rights body slams political speech in Italy as 'xenophobic', government declares 19 countries ‘safe’ to salvage Albanian migrant deal, and more news from Italy on Wednesday.