The president of the USA, Donald Trumpsigned on Friday an executive order that threatens to impose tariffs on foreign governments that apply digital rates to US companies, including Spain, the United Kingdom and France. The order indicates that “Foreign governments have exercised increasing extraterritorial authority over US companies, particularly in the technology sector”and directly quotes […]
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Five bodies found inside sunken yacht in Sicily, search for last missing person
Italian emergency teams on Wednesday managed to extract four bodies from inside the sunken yacht off Sicily (south) and locate a fifth, while they are busy searching for the last missing person and carrying out identification work. During the afternoon, they managed to remove four bodies from the sailboat, transporting them in bags to the […]
Robot helps search for missing people after yacht shipwreck in Italy
The search for six people missing in the sinking of a sailing boat off the coast of Palermo, Sicily, including Morgan Stanley International bank chairman Jonathan Bloomer and British tycoon Mike Lynch, has been stepped up with the help of an additional remote-controlled underwater vehicle. Six missing people were likely trapped inside the yacht Bayesian […]
In Italy, fears are that Mike Lynch and other passengers of the yacht have died; shock in MS
The British technology entrepreneur Mike Lynch and Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer are among those feared dead aboard the sunken wreckage of a luxury yacht off the coast of Sicily, the Italian Coast Guard said in a statement. “Never say never is our motto“, he said Vincenzo Zagarolaspokesperson for the Italian Coast Guard. “But […]
The European countries that received the most asylum seekers in March
Germany, Italy, Spain and France were, in that order, the four European Union countries that received the most asylum seekers last March, 75% of the total, reported the Eurostat statistics office. Germany received 16,430 people seeking asylum in the EU for the first time, followed by Italy (15,115), Spain (13,255) and France (10,540). In March […]
Borgo Egnazia, the celebrity hotel converted into a fort to host the Italian G7
A luxury resort on the coast of southern Italy, frequented by celebrities and billionaires such as Madonna and David Beckham, will host the G7 heads of government tomorrow in an armored summit with a strict security protocol by land, sea and air. Borgo Egnazia It is an old farmhouse converted into one of the most […]
The Italian city of Milan will prohibit eating on the street from midnight
The town hall of the Italian city of Milan (north) promoted an ordinance that will prohibit eating on the street at midnight and limit terraces for the peace of the neighbors, which has unnerved the restaurant sector. The rule, published by the council on its website, will be in the allegations phase until next May […]
Italy fines Enel US$85 million for failing to protect data from “abusive harassers”
The Italian Privacy Guarantee Authority has sanctioned Enel Energia with a fine of 79 million euros (US$85.2 million) for “failing to protect your databases from access by abusive stalkers”, announced today the person responsible for data protection. The Guarantor highlighted that the fine, the largest ever imposed by the agency, responds “to serious deficiencies in […]
Swiss post office loses ashes of a deceased person whose mother wanted to repatriate to Italy
The Swiss national postal service, considered in some rankings the best in the world, has lost the ashes of an Italian who died last year in the Central European country and whom his mother wanted to repatriate to the family’s homeland in Sicilythe Swiss press reported today. According to the German-language newspaper Blick, the family […]
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni completes her investiture in the Italian Parliament
The new Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, today completed her investiture in Parliament after passing a final vote in the Senate, backed by her right-wing coalition with which she won the general elections a month ago. As expected, Meloni obtained the absolute majority with 115 votes in favor of the total of 200 seats, […]