ROME (AP) — Several small boats filled with more Tunisian migrants have reached a tiny Italian island that has run out of room to quarantine them as required by Italy’s anti-coronavirus measures, local officials said Saturday.
The Italian Senate has voted to strip populist Senator Matteo Salvini of parliamentary immunity, which could see the League leader face trial for “kidnapping” illegal migrants.
An estimated 134 migrants that the leftist government had relocated to a reception centre in northern Italy have tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus.
Italy has seen a surge in migrant arrivals in recent weeks, with as many as 11,000 arriving last week, half of them coming from Tunisia.
All across Europe economies are in far deeper contractions than the U.S.
Italian bus drivers are taking martial arts lessons so that they can better enforce new rules in the wake of Chinese coronavirus.
The knock-on economic effects of Coronavirus is pushing migrants towards Europe, a Times of London report claims.
Populist Senator Matteo Salvini slammed the leftist coalition government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, noting the recent increase of illegal migrants and the risks of a new Wuhan coronavirus outbreak.
The leader of Italy’s populist Lega party has denounced the three-month extension of Italy’s state of emergency over the coronavirus, suggesting that the decision was made for “political purposes.”
The famous Italian singer Andrea Bocelli spoke before the Italian Senate Monday denouncing what he considers an exaggerated response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Lampedusa in the Mediterranean has seen a recent surge in migrant arrivals, with the Italian island now seeing an average of one migrant boat arrive every hour.
The president of the Italian Society of Anti-infection Therapy (SITA) said Thursday that while new positive tests for coronavirus are appearing in Italy, numbers in intensive care units (ICU) are “constantly decreasing” and most new cases are asymptomatic and “healthy.”
Italian cemetery workers were caught on CCTV dismembering bodies of the recently deceased as part of a scam that offered a supposed cheap alternative to cremation.
Police arrested a man in Indonesian on Tuesday for threatening to blow up a McDonald’s restaurant because “he thought Italians were responsible for the abominations that are the American fast-food franchise” and the Chinese coronavirus, Indonesian news outlets Coconuts Jakarta reported on Thursday.
Italian admiral Nicola De Felice has asked the German government shut down operations of the German-based migrant transport NGO Sea-Watch.
Migrants placed under coronavirus quarantine in the town of Siculiana have been allowed to essentially roam free, after police were allegedly commanded not to use coercion to stop them breaking lockdown rules.
Italian authorities have seized the Sea-Watch 3 vessel, citing several “irregularities” after the ship brought over 200 migrants to Italy last month, many of them infected with the Chinese coronavirus.
At least 60 per cent of Italians say they are worried about racism in Italy today under the leftist coalition government, a 13 per cent increase from a poll taken when populist Matteo Salvini’s League was in power.
Father Antonio Zanotti, who is currently under investigation by Italian authorities for fraud, has been accused of sexually abusing a migrant under the care of his pro-migrant NGO.
The German Joint Analysis and Strategy Centre for Illegal Migration (Gasim) has claimed that people smugglers in North Africa are actively tracking migrant transport NGO vessels and sending migrants to them.
Two-year-old conjoined twins Ervina and Prefina were successfully separated after an 18-hour procedure on Sunday.
Italian voter confidence in the government of Giuseppe Conte has declined by 20 percentage points since mid-March and now sits at just above 30 percent, according to a poll released Wednesday by Tecnè.
The president of the Italian Society of Anti-infection Therapy (SITA) said Monday that scattered new outbreaks of coronavirus in Italy present no real cause for concern.
Italian far-left anarchist terrorist Roberto Cropo has been arrested in the French city of Saint-Étienne. He is believed to be a member of a terrorist cell that carried out a bombing in Rome in 2017.
Moroccan-born Said Mechaout has been sentenced to a maximum 30 years behind bars over a year after he murdered Italian man Stefano Leo in Turin because he was “white” and “happy”.
The migrant transport NGO Mediterranea Saving Humans has brought another 43 migrants to Italy from North Africa, and eight have so far tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus.
The government of Italy announced on Wednesday it had seized 14 tons of an amphetamine labeled “captagon” en route to Europe from Syria. Italian officials reportedly believe Islamic State terrorists had produced the drug and introduced it to the market.
Locals on the Italian island of Lampedusa participated in a referendum calling for an end to new illegal migrant landings.
A member of the left-wing Italian Democratic Party (PD) has been accused of exploiting migrants during her election campaign by giving money to a pro-migrant group which allegedly made migrants work for free.
Italian police arrested a 29-year-old Egyptian national after the migrant attacked the officers while armed with Japanese-style nunchucks and yelling “Allah hu Akbar”. The incident took place after the Egyptian national initially threatened municipal workers in the town of Fiumicino
A total of 28 migrants out of 209 transported by the pro-migrant NGO Sea-Watch have tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus after being placed in quarantine by Italian authorities.
A majority of Europeans believe that the European Union performed poorly in its response to the Chinese coronavirus, with even more saying that the bloc was “irrelevant” in confronting the outbreak, a poll has found. A survey conducted by the
The once-potent coronavirus “has gone from being a tiger to a pussy cat,” according to Dr. Matteo Bassetti, director of Infectious Diseases at the San Martino Hospital in Genoa.
The Italian left-wing “Five Star Movement” (M5S) received 3.5 million Euros (about $4 million) from Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez in 2010, the Spanish newspaper ABC revealed this week.
The Hungarian government announced Tuesday that parliament has voted to end the extraordinary legal order conferring special powers on government during the coronavirus pandemic.
Italian authorities have arrested thirteen Chinese nationals who they say were using illegal migrants in slave-like conditions for a business making medical masks.
Jacob Rees-Mogg has proposed the flattening of Stonehenge because of its ugly associations with human sacrifice.
An Italian newspaper has warned that a “diversity” clause in a Council of Europe cultural heritage treaty could “erase the true identity” of Italy as it demands “respect for the diversity of interpretations”.
Italian authorities have begun to deploy a new specialised camera aboard helicopters to track illegal migration and people smuggling operations in the Mediterranean sea.
The Italian bishops have blasted proposed anti-homo/transphobia laws as both unnecessary and stifling of freedom of thought.
