ROME (AFP) - (AFP) - A boat carrying 330 migrants from Libya arrived late Tuesday on the Italian island of Lampedusa, a day after officials found 25 people choked to death in the engine room of another Libyan refugee boat.
Tuesday's wooden refugee vessel, accompanied to shore by the Italian coast guard, was just 15 metres (50 feet) long and carried migrants, mostly from Somalia and Nigeria, inc [...]
MILAN (AFP) - (AFP) - An Italian prosecutor is investigating the country's largest energy group ENI and two of its executives over suspected corruption related to projects in Iraq and Kuwait, the company said Wednesday.
The Milan prosecutor's office is probing whether the executives took kickbacks from Italian engineering and construction firms in exchange for subcontracts to drill [...]
TRIPOLI (AFP) - (AFP) - NATO vowed Wednesday to press its bombing campaign in Libya despite a call from member state Italy for a halt to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid as the civilian death toll mounts.
Alliance chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said more civilians would die if operations were not maintained under a UN mandate to protect Libyans from the exactions of the governmen [...]
ROME (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended a ceremony in Rome on Sunday in honour of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, on the eve of diplomatic meetings in the Italian capital.
Netanyahu is to meet Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Monday on a visit set to focus on Israel's efforts to get world leaders to oppose a Palestinian plan to seek United Nations r [...]
TUNIS (AFP) - Up to 270 migrants are missing off the Tunisian coast after a ship headed for Italy capsized, authorities said on Thursday. Army and coastguard teams have lifted 570 people off the overcrowded vessel after it ran aground and capsized near Tunisia's Kerkennah islands on Wednesday.
But between 200 and 270 were still missing after they tried to scramble aboard a flotilla [...]
ROME (AFP) - Libyan Oil Minister Shukri Ghanem announced Wednesday he had resigned and left Libya to join the uprising against Moamer Kadhafi "to fight for a democratic country," Italian news agency ANSA reported.
"I can't work in this situation so I have left my country and my job to join the choice made by young Libyans to fight for a democratic country," he said in Rome, followin [...]
ROME (AFP) - Italian coast guards rescued 210 refugees escaping conflict in Libya as the interior minister complained of inaction by neighbouring Malta.
Their broken vessel was detected 100 kilometres (62 miles) south of the island of Lampedusa drifting aimlessly on the Mediterranean. Italian patrol boats brought the passengers safely to land.
But Italy's Interior Minister Roberto [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon said Saturday it has launched an investigation into a roadside bomb blast that wounded six Italian peacekeepers, two of them seriously, and two civilians.
"For now, all we can say is that UNIFIL's forensics team is working with the Lebanese army to investigate the explosion," the mission's spokesman, Neeraj Singh, told AFP.
[...]
ROME (AFP) - A United Arab Emirates fighter jet taking part in NATO-led military operations over Libya crashed on landing at a NATO air base in Italy on Wednesday and its pilot was forced to eject, officials said.
"An F-16 crashed on landing at Sigonella air base," a NATO official told AFP, adding that he could not reveal the nationality of the plane involved.
The pilot "ejected sa [...]
ROME (AFP) - Pirates on Thursday seized an Italian cargo ship in the Arabian Sea and attacked a South Korean vessel in the Indian Ocean, their owners said Thursday.
Pirates fired on the 225-metre (738-foot) Rosalia D'Amato during the assault but no one was injured and the captain and crew "are in good condition", said Carlo Miccio from the Naples-based company Perseveranza.
"The ca [...]
Passengers jump out of plane in India after bad landing
Recent Comments