Sicily

Smoke billows from Mount Etna volcano, Italy. Photo: AP via UNB
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Sicily's Mount Etna erupts with columns of smoke and ash

The level of alert due to the volcanic activity was raised at the Catania airport, but no immediate interruptions were reported. An official update declared the ash cloud emission had ended by the...

A handout picture shows one of the coins of a treasure of 27 silver Roman coins dated between 94 and 74 BC was discovered on the remote island of Pantelleria, Sicily, Italy September 2, 2024. Reuters: Ufficio Stampa Regione Sicilia/Handout via REUTERS
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Haul of ancient Roman coins discovered in Sicily

Rescue personnel operate on boats on the sea near the scene where a luxury yacht sank, off the coast of Porticello, near the Sicilian city of Palermo, Italy, August 20, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane
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Crew member on Mike Lynch yacht tells of being thrown into water

Rescue boats take part in a search operation, after a luxury yacht, which was carrying British entrepreneur Mike Lynch, sank off the coast of Porticello, near the Sicilian city of Palermo, Italy, August 21, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Louiza Vradi
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Four bodies retrieved from Mike Lynch's sunken yacht in Sicily

Rescue personnel operate on boats on the sea near the scene where a luxury yacht sank, off the coast of Porticello, near the Sicilian city of Palermo, Italy, August 20, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane
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Mike Lynch and daughter among six missing after yacht sinks; divers struggle to enter wreck

Emergency services carry a body bag after a sailboat sank in the early hours of Monday, off the coast of Porticello, near the Sicilian city of Palermo, Italy, August 19, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Igor Petyx
Europe

British entrepreneur Mike Lynch among missing after luxury yacht sinks off Sicily

Emergency and rescue services work near the scene where a sailboat sank in the early hours of Monday, off the coast of Porticello, near the Sicilian city of Palermo, Italy, August 19, 2024. REUTERS/Igor Petyx
Europe

One dead, six missing after luxury yacht sinks off Sicily

A rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB) of the Italian Finance Police patrols near the Mare Jonio, operated by Italian charity Mediterranea Saving Humans, and the German NGO Sea-Eye migrant rescue ship 'Alan Kurdi' (unseen). REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi
Europe

Boat packed with 500 migrants needs rescue off Sicily - charity

A rescue team searches for missing residents after a four-storey building collapsed following a gas explosion, in Ravanusa, Italy, December 12, 2021. Photo :Reuters
Europe

Four more bodies pulled from collapsed building in Sicily

Members of a rescue team work at the scene where a four-storey building collapsed following a gas explosion, in Ravanusa, Italy, December 12, 2021. Photo: Reuters
Europe

At least three dead in building collapse in Sicily

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Europe

Migrant boat with 10 dead bodies arrives in Sicily

Migrants disembark the ship 'Geo Barents' run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which was given permission to dock at the Sicilian port of Augusta after a week of waiting at sea, to board the quarantine ship 'Aurelia', in Augusta, Italy, June 18, 2021. REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello
Europe

Hundreds of migrants rescued by MSF charity land in Sicily

January 15, 2020, men from Bangladesh disembark from the Open Arms rescue vessel at the port of Messina after being rescued on Friday off the Libyan coast, in Sicily, Italy. Photo: AP
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Italy allows 180 migrants off rescue ship