Italy To Hold Cabinet Meeting In Migrant Shipwreck Area
MILAN, March 4 (Reuters) – Italy’s government will hold a cabinet meeting near the southern seaside town where dozens of bodies washed ashore after a migrant ship broke up on rocks last month, Prime...
View ArticleBanksy’s Migrant Rescue Ship Seized By Italy’s Coast Guard
MILAN, March 26 (Reuters) – A rescue ship funded by British street artist Banksy was seized in Lampedusa on Sunday after Italy’s coast guard said the boat had disobeyed its instructions to head to...
View ArticleItaly’s Exports to China Are Booming and It’s Not Clear Why
(Bloomberg) — Italy’s exports to China have tripled in little more than a year. The problem is, even the experts are struggling to explain why. Shipments abroad rose above €3...
View ArticleBeyond G7 Gunboats: The Case for Naval Diplomacy to Secure the Red Sea
Both the G7 and the US-led military coalition have been unsuccessful in protecting trade in the Red Sea, Black Sea and other maritime regions. Is there a more effective alternative?...
View ArticleItalian Warship Shoots Down Houthi Drone in Red Sea
The Italian Navy warship, Caio Duilio, shot down a drone in the Red Sea on Saturday. This defensive action was part of the EU’s recently-launched naval operation in the region....
View ArticleItalian Judge Throws Out Case Against Migrant NGOs After Seven Years
ROME (Reuters) – An Italian judge on Friday cleared three migrant sea rescue charities that had been accused of abetting irregular immigration in complicity with human traffickers, throwing out a case...
View ArticleBritish Tech Entrepreneur Among Missing After Superyacht Sinks Off Sicily
By Rosaura Bonfardino and Igor Petyx PALERMO, Sicily, Aug 19 (Reuters) – One man died and six people were missing, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, after a luxury yacht was struck by an...
View ArticleDivers Continue Search for Missing After Yacht Sinks Off Sicily
PALERMO, Sicily, Aug 20 (Reuters) – Divers scoured the wreck of a luxury yacht off Sicily’s coast on Tuesday to find six missing people, including British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and his daughter,...
View ArticleIndia and Italy In Talks On Blue Economy, Port Cooperation
By Jeanette Rodrigues Nov 30, 2024 (Bloomberg) —Italy is in talks with India to ramp up cooperation in the ship and yacht building industries, Minister of Business and Made in Italy...
View ArticleRussia’s Gazprom Makes First LNG Delivery to Italy Amid Shifting European...
In a significant development for European energy markets, Russian energy giant Gazprom has completed its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) delivery to Italy from its Baltic Sea-based LNG Portovaya...
View ArticleItalian Deputy PM Salvini Acquitted In Migrant Rescue Boat Case
By Wladimir Pantaleone and Angelo Amante PALERMO, Italy, Dec 20 (Reuters) – Acourt on Friday acquitted Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini of charges of kidnapping over 100 migrants aboard a...
View ArticleItaly Prosecutors Open Terrorism Probe Into Oil Tanker Explosion
Italian prosecutors have opened a terrorism investigation over an explosion last weekend that damaged an oil tanker anchored off the coast of northern Italy, the chief prosecutor of the city of Genoa...
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