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Italy earthquake: Rescuers race to find survivors

The death toll from a devastating earthquake that hit and flattened central Italian towns has soared to more than 240 as rescuers desperately searched through the night for survivors under the ruins of collapsed buildings. With 368 people injured, some critically, and an unknown number still trapped in mountains of[…]

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Bologna’s Muslims fight for mosque

On any given Friday on the outskirts of Bologna, where the tight porticoed streets give way to the lazy sway of golden wheat fields, you will see hundreds of Muslims making their way down what could be mistaken for a country road. They converge on an old warehouse, which has[…]

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Italy rescues 600 migrants from Mediterranean

Italy has rescued about 600 migrants in six operations, one in cooperation with Maltese authorities, in the past 24 hours, the country’s coastguard told Al Jazeera. It was not immediately clear whether the rescued people included 100 Somali migrants who were stranded on a plastic boat in the Mediterranean on[…]

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Rescued migrants arrive in Italy port

Nearly 5,800 migrants rescued from boats off the coast of Libya over the past 48 hours have arrived on the Italian port of Pozzallo, according to coastguard officials. The development comes as part of European coastguard agencies’ biggest rescue operation this year. Al Jazeera’s Stephanie Dekker, reporting on Monday from[…]

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Nearly 1,000 migrants rescued off Italy, 10 dead

Nearly 1,000 migrants and refugees were rescued off Italy’s coast, while 10 migrants perished in the southern Mediterranean, officials said Wednesday. The rescue vessels, including coast guard, navy and cargo ships, saved 941 people in seven separate operations that began Tuesday, the coast guard said. The survivors were being ferried[…]

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Italy govt urged to endorse Palestinian statehood

Italy’s lower house of parliament on Friday approved a non-binding motion urging the government to recognize Palestine as a state, a move that follows similar symbolic votes in other European parliaments in recent months. The motion was backed by the ruling centre-left Democratic Party of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. Before[…]

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Germany, Italy close embassies in Yemen

Germany and Italy have closed their embassies in Sana’a, the foreign ministries in Berlin and Rome said Friday, after Shiite Houthi fighters took control of the Yemeni capital. Germany said the embassy closed late Thursday, and the diplomats left the country early Friday. The closure is temporary and the government[…]

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