Tag: Italy

At approximately 0948 EST, reports began to emerge that the Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) sponsored vessel, Geo Barents, rescued more than six hundred refugees on board a distressed vessel off the coast of Italy in the Mediterranean Sea. SkyNews reporters were embedded with the vessel and shared...

On Sunday morning, a wooden migrant boat carrying upwards of 200 people sank off the coast of Crotone, Italy. So far, rescuers have recovered 60 bodies, but they fear the death toll could easily reach the 100s. Officials say the boat launched off the coast of Turkey. The boat sank...

Italy’s most wanted mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, 60, was arrested early on Monday morning. Denaro, leader of the Cosa Nostra mafia, was at a private hospital in Sicily's capital Palermo when he was detained by police. Italian news outlets are reporting he may be suffering from cancer. The...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi are adamantly rejecting German demands that three NGO ships with more than 1,000 people on board dock in Italian ports. The ships are waiting to dock off the Italian coast. The foreign ministry of Rome stated on Thursday that it had...