List of Italy articles
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Migrants wait to disembark from a military ship following a rescue operation at sea as part of the Frontex-coordinated Operation Triton, on May 6, 2015 in Messina harbour. Italy's coastguard said it had rescued a total of 650 migrants yesterday and a total of over 1,700 were landed at various ports today as a consequence of what was one of the busiest weekends on record for rescues in the waters off Libya. AFP PHOTO / GIOVANNI ISOLINO (Photo credit should read GIOVANNI ISOLINO/AFP/Getty Images) Could Adding a Small Fee to Airline Tickets Solve Europe’s Migration Crisis?
A little known, low-cost airline levy has saved millions of lives from disease. Could it also be the answer to other crises around the globe?
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Refugees from Afghanistan arrive on the shores of Lesbos near Skala Skamnias, Greece on June 2, 2015. Lesbos, the Greek vacation island in the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece, faces massive refugee flows from the Middle East countries. Women and children are seen at the beaches and the cities of Lesbos, exhausted after the trip over the Aegean Sea. Some children are even born on the flight from war. Last week alone over 2500 refugees arrived on the island, where they will be registred by Greek authorities. After registration most refugees are left on their own. AFP PHOTO / SCANPIX DENMARK / SOEREN BIDSTRUP +++ DENMARK OUT (Photo credit should read SOEREN BIDSTRUP/AFP/Getty Images) The Grefugee Crisis: Greece Now Europe’s Top Recipient of Maritime Refugees
Greece just defaulted on their debt repayment, but they're also in a scramble for refugee funding.
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Italian police officers attempt to force a migrant into an Italian Red-Cross vehicle at the Italian-French border in the Italian city of Ventimiglia on June, 16, 2015. Italy and France engaged in a war of words as a standoff over hundreds of Africans offered a graphic illustration of Europe's migration crisis. Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano described images of migrants perched on rocks at the border town of Ventimiglia after being refused entry to France as a "punch in the face for Europe." AFP PHOTO / JEAN CHRISTOPHE MAGNENET (Photo credit should read JEAN CHRISTOPHE MAGNENET/AFP/Getty Images) Europe’s Migrant-Industrial Complex
Countries like Italy and Britain are making it too easy for corrupt politicians and opportunistic multinationals to turn a migration crisis into profit.
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Screen Shot 2015-05-26 at 5.20.46 PM Berlusconi’s New Instagram Feed Is the Most Berlusconi Thing Ever
Former Italian Prime Minister, current billionaire convict, and longtime plastic surgery enthusiast Silvio Berlusconi joined the photo sharing site Instagram last week, in the run-up to regional elections on Sunday that pose a survival test for his center-right Forza Italia party, which has been effectively run into the ground thanks to its leader's various misdeeds.
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Rescuers help people in the sea after a boat carring some 250 migrants crashed into rocks as they tried to enter the port of Pantelleria, an island off the southern coast of Italy, on April 13, 2011. A fishing boat which had sailed across the Medittarenean from Libya ran aground today on rocks on the tiny Italian island of Pantelleria, killing two women, the ANSA news agency reported. Italy is struggling to cope with a mass influx of immigrants from north Africa, many of whom risk their lives by sailing across the often stormy Medittaranean in makeshift vessels. AFP PHOTO/ Francesco Malavolta ==ITALY OUT== (Photo credit should read FRANCESCO MALAVOLTA/AFP/Getty Images) Libya to Europe: Please Don’t Come to Our Rescue
Libya's U.N. envoy expresses skepticism over European plans to fight migrant smugglers in Libyan territory, saying it will cause more trouble than it's worth.
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Israel Pioneers Use Of Medical Marijuana The Italian Army is Growing Pot… to Drive Costs Down
Patients who’ve been prescribed medical marijuana in Italy have been running into a prohibitive problem: high prices. The Italian military has an unexpected solution.
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Mussolini_e_Petacci_a_Piazzale_Loreto,_1945 Did the Brutal Death of Mussolini Contribute to Hitler’s Suicide?
Seventy years ago on Tuesday, partisans in the backwoods of northern Italy summarily executed Benito Mussolini after they happened to foil the dictator’s attempted escape across the Swiss border.
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470549596 cropped The View From Libya, Ground Zero in the Migrant Crisis
An epidemic of human smuggling is adding to the woes of a country that already has more problems than it can handle.
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470787708crop Is There a Military Solution to Europe’s Migrant Crisis? Spoiler Alert: Probably Not.
European leaders are looking to military measures to stem the flow of migrants across the Mediterranean.
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loportog Slain Italian Hostage ‘Had No Time for Simplistic Western Policy Agendas’
“I do love the people, the culture and the food of this part of the world,” Lo Porto told a professor who taught him in London.
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LAMPEDUSA, ITALY - JUNE 21: A boat loaded with illegal immigrant is seen on June 21, 2005 in Lampedusa, Italy. Tens of thousands of immigrants land on the Italian coast each year, most of them heading from north Africa on ramshackle boats.In the Mediterranean Sea between Malta and Tunisia, Lampedusa Island is one of the main gateways for illegal immigration from Africa into Europe. According to a report by Amnesty International, Illegal immigrants who land in Italy consistently allege they have been abused, holding centres are overcrowded and no legal assistance is offered. Italian authorities refused to give access to the centres to enable further investigations by Amnesty. The Amnesty International report says 15,647 people were held in the centres in 2004: a 9 per-cent increase on the previous year. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images) Europe Passes the Buck While Thousands Die
How EU cost-cutting, continental infighting, and bureaucratic indifference turned the Mediterranean into a graveyard.
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A boat carring Tunisian migrants enters When Migrants Flee Progress, Not War
Nearly one-fifth of people crossing the Mediterranean are leaving a country touted for achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Turns out, a better life requires more than a U.N. checklist.
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470472754crop Why Europe’s Migrant Tragedy Is a Political Crisis
Europe's political project lies at the heart of the current migrant crisis.
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470416688crop The Mediterranean Migrant Crisis, by the Numbers
Thousands of migrants have died making the dangerous crossing.
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h_51721355refugeescrop Italy Opens the Door to Disaster
Italian officials are turning a blind eye to the Syrian refugees fleeing the country for Northern Europe. And even the refugees themselves are worried that anyone could be traveling in their midst -- even terrorists with the Islamic State.
