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Thousands of people made homeless by Italy's worst earthquake in three decades will be moved from tent villages into more permanent housing before autumn, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Thursday. Berlusconi, who on Thursday visited the rugged Abruzzo region devastated by the April 6 quake, said that 65,000 people …
Aircraft and patrol boats will be deployed to prevent over-trawling by European Union fleets when the fishing season for the endangered bluefin tuna opens on Thursday. Prized by sushi lovers but chronically overfished for years, bluefin tuna commands sky-high prices in Asia, particularly in Japan where a single fish can …
L'AUILA (ITALY): Hopes faded on Wednesday of finding any more survivors from Italy's massive earthquake as the death toll rose to 260 and fresh aftershocks hampered the search for bodies. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi meanwhile was facing opposition criticism for remarks comparing the ordeal of survivors staying in emergency tents …
Rescuers picked through rubble for a third night searching for survivors of an earthquake that killed 272 people in Italy, but acknowledged hopes were fading as every hour passed. A series of aftershocks rattled the medieval mountain city of L'Aquila and nearby villages, complicating rescue efforts and terrifying survivors -- …
Strong aftershocks shook central Italy on Tuesday and hampered rescue efforts after the country's worst earthquake in three decades killed at least 228 people and left thousands homeless. The strongest aftershock since Monday's quake scattered rescue workers and toppled buildings, including parts of the basilica and the station, as night …
Earthquakes like the one that killed more than 200 people in Italy this week are still impossible to predict, and a local scientist's claims to have done so should be treated with caution, geophysicists say. Gioacchino Giuliani is at the center of a debate about the limits of seismology after …
The death toll in the earthquake that struck central Italy on Monday rose to 179 people, of whom 40 had yet to be identified, officials told the ANSA news agency on Tuesday. Officials said 37 people were still missing and there was still hope of finding survivors. The estimated number …
THE wolves came at night, crazed by the scent of lost sheep without shepherds and bodies buried beneath the rubble. In the early hours of Jan. 13, 1915, an earthquake had rocked the rugged Abruzzo region of Italy. In Pescina, birthplace of the writer Ignazio Silone, 3,500 of the town
At twilight on Monday, seven wooden coffins lay on the ground under a gnarled tree in Onna, a tiny village eight miles from here. A woman was slumped in grief over one, while people comforted her. After a few moments, five men strained to lift four coffins into a funeral …
Rescuers searched through the night for survivors of an earthquake that killed more than 130 people in central Italy early on Monday and left thousands of homeless huddled in tent camps and rough shelters. Rain complicated the task of firemen and emergency workers combing the rubble in the hope of …
An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L'Aquila weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing more than 100 people, but was reported to authorities for spreading panic. The government on Monday insisted the warning, by seismologist Gioacchino Giuliani, had no scientific foundation but Giuliani said he had …
Thousands of people left homeless; many renaissance monuments destroyed Vaiju Naravane Paris: Over a hundred people are feared dead, hundreds have been injured and more than 50,000 have been left homeless in a powerful earthquake that struck the historic central Italian town of L
