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Italian island runs out of room to quarantine new migrants

11:19 pm August 1, 2020

Rome: About 250 Tunisian migrants in several small boats have reached a tiny Italian island that has run out of room to quarantine them as required by Italy’s anti-coronavirus measures, local officials said Saturday. The Sicilian newspaper Giornale di Sicilia quoted Lampedusa Mayor Toto’ Martello as saying the island can’t wait until the government sends a chartered ferry where the migrants can be held for […]

Chicago police, protesters clash during bid to topple statue

11:57 pm July 18, 2020

Chicago: Protesters trying to topple a Christopher Columbus statue in downtown Chicago’s Grant Park clashed with police who used batons to beat people and made at least a dozen arrests after they say protesters targeted them with fireworks, rocks and other items. The clash Friday evening unfolded after at least 1,000 people tried to swarm the statue in a […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

International tribunal upheld conduct of Indian authorities in Italian tanker case: MEA

7:37 pm July 2, 2020

New Delhi: An international tribunal dealing with the killing of two Indian fishermen in 2012 by two Italian marines has upheld the conduct of the Indian authorities over the incident, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday. MEA Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said the tribunal upheld the conduct of the Indian authorities under the provisions of the UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea). India accused […]

Milan turns to Jay-Z's Roc Nation, Liverpool to revive glory

Women’s soccer to be professional in Italy

9:56 pm June 25, 2020

Rome: The Italian Football Federation aims to make the women’s game professional in the country by 2022, describing the move as “undelayable.” Female players are still considered amateurs by Italian law and therefore are not permitted to earn more than 30,000 euros ($33,000) per year before taxes. Sports Minister Vincenzo Spadafora has previously said he supports changing the 1981 law and […]

Priests guilty of abusing deaf children at Argentine school

7:43 am November 26, 2019

Mendoza (Argentina): Two priests were found guilty of sexually abusing deaf children at a Catholic-run school in Argentina and sentenced to more than 40 years in prison, a case that has shaken the church in Pope Francis’s homeland. A three-judge panel in the city of Mendoza sentenced on Monday the Rev. Nicola Corradi to 42 […]

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