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Europe storms: Children among dead in France, Austria and Italy

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Areas of central and southern Europe have been blasted by strong storms that have killed at least 12 people, including three children. In Italy, Austria, and on the French island of Corsica, there were documented deaths, the majority of which were caused by fallen trees.

Campsites on the island were destroyed by strong winds and rain, while in Venice, Italy, stone was blown from the belltower of St. Mark’s Basilica. Following weeks of scorching and drought across much of the continent, the storms hit. Wind gusts of up to 224 km/h (140 mph) in Corsica destroyed trees and harmed mobile homes.

Authorities there said that a 13-year-old girl was murdered on a camping by a tree that fell.

Due to human-induced climate change, extreme weather events, such as heatwaves and storms, have gotten worse and more common in recent years.

Since the start of the industrial age, the world has already warmed by around 1.1C, and temperatures will continue to rise unless governments drastically reduce emissions.

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Suspected bank robber rescued from tunnel near Vatican

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Police believe an Italian guy who was pulled from a collapsed tunnel not far from the Vatican may have been trying to tunnel his way into a bank. After firefighters spent eight hours pulling him out from beneath a road, he is now recovering in a hospital.

However, given that he and another man were both taken into custody by police for “resisting a public authority,” he may now need to bail himself out of even more trouble. He might have been a member of a gang trying to rob a bank, according to police speculation.

A police spokesman told the AFP news agency, “We are still investigating; we do not exclude that they are thieves, it is one of the ideas.

The two were also held for causing damage to public property. According to local media, the reason is obvious because the tunnel was discovered close to a bank just before the long weekend on August 15, when the majority of the city is empty.

The Corriere della Sera daily’s headline read, “The whole gang.”

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Domino’s: the fast food juggernaut departs from Italy, the birthplace of pizza

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According to sources, Domino’s Pizza’s final locations in Italy have been shut down as a result of the bankruptcy of the company that ran its locations there. According to Bloomberg, who broke the news, the pandemic affected franchise owner ePizza SpA.

Since its arrival in the pizza capital in 2015, Domino’s had had trouble attracting customers. Some social media users rejoiced at the news of the fast food giant’s departure from the nation. After being adversely affected by coronavirus restrictions, EPizza SpA initially declared bankruptcy in the beginning of April.

“The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent and prolonged restrictions from a financial point of view have seriously damaged ePizza,” the company said.

The business also said that as more conventional eateries began utilising delivery apps, competition was growing. The company received 90 days of creditor protection as part of the bankruptcy process. However, that defence expired last month.

Since its peak in 2020, the Italian company has already begun to reduce its operations, and deliveries ceased at the end of July. According to the bankruptcy records, as of 2020, the company operated 23 stores in Italy directly and six more through sub-franchising.

With more than 1,200 locations, the UK and Ireland is by far the largest Domino’s market in Europe. The largest pizza company in the world has more than 18,300 locations throughout more than 90 different countries, the majority of which are franchisee-run.

Domino’s set out to differentiate itself from the country’s traditional pizza producers seven years ago by offering a thorough home delivery service and a distinctive menu that featured US-style toppings like pineapple. Nevertheless, it encountered escalating competition during the epidemic as neighbourhood eateries joined services like Deliveroo and Just Eat for meal delivery.

Some social media users applauded the news that Domino’s was abandoning the birthplace of pizza.

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Rocco Morabito: Fugitive mobster handed over to Italy

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Mobster Rocco Morabito, one of Italy’s most wanted individuals, has arrived in Rome after being extradited from Brazil, where he had been hiding. Morabito, who was dubbed the “cocaine king of Milan,” was taken into custody by Brazilian and Italian police in May of last year during a combined operation.

The 55-year-old will spend 30 years in prison for distributing drugs. The mafia boss used a false identity while hiding underground in South America for decades. He was finally located by police last year in Joo Pessoa, a port city in northeastern Brazil, where he was detained alongside Vincenzo Pasquino, another Ndrangheta mafia member. Since then, Pasquino has been given a 17-year prison term for narcotics trafficking.

After decades of searching, Rocco Morabito has finally arrived in Rome. Rocco Morabito, who was raised in the Calabrian hamlet of Africo and has ties to mafia leader Giuseppe Morabito, rose to prominence within the ‘Ndrangheta, a vast criminal organisation that dominates much of the cocaine trade in Italy and worldwide.

Morabito established important cocaine smuggling routes from South America into Milan as a young man, quickly becoming known as a prolific drug dealer in the city.

He was well-dressed in double-breasted suits and frequently spotted mixing with the city’s jet set. Italian police immediately became aware of him and put him under surveillance.

He was seen trying to arrange arrangements to get more than a tonne of cocaine from South America into the country, but he quickly vanished. Police believe he eluded capture by travelling to Brazil, where he resided under the guise of Francisco Capeletto. From there, he moved to the neighbouring country of Uruguay, where he spent at least 13 years living in the tourist city of Punta del Este.

He was imprisoned for two years in 2019 while awaiting extradition to Italy until he and three other prisoners made their escape via a hole in the roof.

He was eventually located in a hotel in the city of Joo Pessoa in 2021 as part of a multinational police operation directed by Interpol with the goal of stopping the ‘Ndrangheta. His extradition to Italy was authorised last week by Brazil’s federal top court.

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Drought emergency declared in northern Italy

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In light of the worst drought in 70 years, Italy has declared an emergency in five northern districts around the Po River. To address the water scarcity, emergency funding totaling €36.5 million (£31 million; $38 million) will be allocated to Emilia-Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lombardy, Piedmont, and Veneto.

According to the agricultural group Coldiretti, the drought puts more than 30% of Italy’s agricultural output in jeopardy. Water rationing has already been announced by a number of municipalities. Water problems in northern Italy have been made worse by unusually warm temperatures and minimal rainfall during the winter and spring.

The Italian government stated that “the state of emergency is intended to manage the current crisis with unprecedented means and powers.” If things didn’t get better, it threatened to take more action. Italy’s longest river, the Po, flows more than 650 kilometres eastward (404 miles).

Farmers in the Po Valley claim that crops are being destroyed by seawater that is now leaking into the river. Mario Draghi, the prime minister, travelled to the Dolomites on Monday, where a glacier fall left 13 people missing. He claimed there was “no doubt” that global warming contributed to the calamity.

On the Marmolada mountain, an avalanche brought on by the glacier’s disintegration resulted in at least seven fatalities and eight injuries.

Drones with thermal imaging capabilities are helping in the search for the missing, who also include a number of international nationals.

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Covid Vaccine: Italy to make Russian Sputnik V Vaccine

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The Italian-Russian Chamber of Commerce has reported that Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine will be produced in Italy this July.

Thereby, Italy will become the first European country to make the Russian vaccine which needs yet to be approved by the European medicines agency. The vaccine will be produced by Adienne Pharma and Biotech SA in Lombardy.

Russian authorities stated that they are ready to supply vaccines to over 50 million Europeans and several of the European countries- Hungary and Slovakia have already begun administering the vaccine without awaiting its approval.

According to a medical publication by The Lancet, the vaccine is found to be 91.6% efficient against symptomatic forms of the disease.

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Italy Second European country to cross one lakh Covid deaths

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On Monday Italy logged 318 deaths from COVID-19 in the previous 24 hours, putting its count at 100,103 and making it the second country after the UK to pass the grim milestone of 100,000 fatalities from the disease.

New Prime Minister Mario Draghi cautioned of additional distress in the coming days as hospitalisations hopped. One year prior, Italy forced the first Covid lockdown of any European country however now, following quite a while of a level in day by day cases, there has been a consistent move in new infections.

And specialists say the nation ought to be prepared for another pinnacle of diseases in about fourteen days, cautioning that every day cases could reach as high as 40,000 except if more serious limitations of residents’ development and exercises are quickly placed into place.

In reaction to the rising instances of COVID-19, the specialists are putting three additional locales under more tight limitations. Two in the north of the nation – Friuli Venezia Giulia and Veneto – will be raised to orange zones. While the Campania area, which incorporates Naples, will be renamed as a red zone, the most noteworthy danger level.

Europe recorded 1 million new Covid cases a week ago, an increment of 9% from the earlier week and an inversion that finished a six-week decrease, as indicated by the World Health Organization.

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Mario Darghi to vow as the Italian Prime Minister

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Mr Draghi, the ex-chief of the European Central Bank, has named his bureau after gathering the Italian president.

He has gotten the help of practically all the fundamental ideological groups, following the breakdown of the past organization a month ago. It was tossed into disorder in the midst of a column over how to spend EU Covid recuperation funds.

Italy is yet fighting with the pandemic and is likewise confronting its most exceedingly awful monetary emergency in many years. The nation has recorded in excess of 93,000 deaths, the 6th most elevated death toll in the world.

After getting the help of the biggest gathering in parliament, the Five Star Movement, Mr Draghi presently has backing across the wide political range. It implies he will have a huge enough dominant part to push through his agenda.

“Mario Draghi was the Italian who saved Europe, and I think now he is the European who can save Italy,” said former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. The previous prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, resigned in January after his group lost help for its alliance government over designs for spending EU recuperation money.

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Italian PM wins key senate vote

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Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, who leads a collation government, has won a crucial senate vote. When As many as 156 lawmakers have voted in favour of him, nearly 140 have voted against him. It has been a very narrow escape.

Anyway, though the victory saves the face of the Italian PM, what the result points to is a disturbing reality that the Italian government no longer enjoys a clear majority in the parliament.

Recently, Matteo Renzi walked out of the coalition government, criticising the way the Italian government handled the economic situation of the country.

More than 16 lawmakers have abstained from casting their opinion. Actually, their abstention has played a crucial role in the victory of the block led by the Italian government.

The PM, while addressing the lawmakers, has requested the support to overcome the present economic situation.

Italy is at present going through a tough economic situation. The virus outbreak has inflicted a huge injury on this country. Its economy has been brought to its lowest point.

The ruling government needs to work really hard to bring the country back to the track of growth and stability. Given the present situation, the ruling government is almost incapable.

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Italy bursts ‘Casanova Online Gang’

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The Italian police has exposed an online gang, which have cheated several women across the continent of Europe.

The members of the gang have managed to gain the trust of the victims posing as pilots, Interpol officials, sea captains and military officials.

The gang has been broken following a three-year-long operation. As many as fifteen people have been booked in connection with the case.

The victims have lost a huge amount of money. One of the victims have lost a giant sum of 1.3 million Euro. Some have lost their homes to the frauds.

It was Operation Casanova, an operation launched by the Italian police, which has eliminated the threat posed by the gang.

The extent of the crime is not clear at this juncture. In the coming days, more women are expected to come forward with their complaints against the gang. It is possible that the scope of the investigation will be extended beyond the limits of Italy to other countries in the continent.

The police have blamed Nigerians for the crime.

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