Italy storms: Two families killed in Sicily house
Craig TaylorTwo families die after their house is submerged in Sicily, as bad weather batters Italy. BBC News – Europe
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Italy storms: Five dead as northern villages are cut off
Five people have been killed as high winds, rain and landslides continue to devastate parts of Italy. BBC News – Europe
Vatican City Bones Found In Apostolic Nunciature
Four men renovating a basement floor near the Vatican’s Apostolic Nunciature found bones which the Italian authorities think may belong to missing girls Emanuela Orlandi and Mirella Gregori who both disappeared in 1983. Initial examination of bones found at the Vatican’s embassy in Rome suggest they belong to a woman and given there is an almost…
Iran Accused of Murder Plot
Tehran are allegedly the latest despot country to get in on the lets just go around killing anyone we don’t like act after Denmark apparently foiled a plot to its intelligence agencies planned to kill an Arab separatist leader on Danish soil. The supposed target is a senior member of the Arab Struggle Movement for the…
Angela Merkel to step down as German Chancellor in 2021
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has bid a somewhat drawn-out farewell to German politics announcing that she will step down in 2021. This may be a shrewd move on her part as a series of regional election setbacks indicate that she might not have had any choice. She has always tried to steer the centre ground,…
Rome protests: Anger over rubbish and potholed roads
Demonstrators blame Mayor Virginia Raggi for the city’s shoddy and creaking infrastructure. BBC News – Europe