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United Press International
| 12 months ago
Two strong earthquakes that struck Italy in the past two weeks killed 24 people and put up to 13,000 jobs at risk, officials said. The National Institute of Geophysics and Vulcanology reported 23 aftershocks from a 5.8-magnitude Tuesday earthquake...
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The Hindu
| 12 months ago
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake has struck a mountainous region of western China near the border with Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan...Geological Survey said the quake struck at 8.32 p.m. (12.32 GMT) on Friday. Its epicentre was located 73 kilometres west of...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
New Earthquake Hits Italy; Brings More Destruction A new earthquake hits Italy which brought more destruction and death to the country. According to reports, 17 deaths were already accounted for due to this new earthquake. The new earthquake was...
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The Independent
| 12 months ago
Spain and Italy last night seemed to be moving closer to the danger zone where a bailout by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund becomes unavoidable. The interest rate on 10-year sovereign bonds of both recession-struck nations,...
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The independent
| 12 months ago
Spain and Italy last night seemed to be moving closer to the danger zone where a bailout by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund becomes unavoidable. The interest rate on 10-year sovereign bonds of both recession-struck nations,...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 12 months ago
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti urged his European partners on Thursday to speed measures to limit contagion from the debt crisis crippling some countries and stimulate economic growth or risk a backlash from citizens paying the price for belt-...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti said on Thursday his country was threatened by "huge possibilities" of contagion stemming from the euro zone debt crisis and warned markets that pressure from rising sovereign bond yields could complicate reforms.
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Ansa
| 12 months ago
Tension remains high in Emilia-Romagna, where the earth continues to shake after two deadly earthquakes that have claimed 24 lives in the last two weeks. There were 29 aftershocks overnight in the northern region following Tuesday's quake, which...
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NY Daily News
| 12 months ago
A 65-year-old woman was rescued from beneath the rubble of her kitchen after being trapped for 12 hours by the deadly earthquake that hit Italy Tuesday. Rescue crews found the woman under a piece of furniture in a building that had been damaged and...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 12 months ago
SpA said Wednesday it plans to sell its controlling stake in Italian natural-gas grid Snam SpA, in a multibillion-euro deal allowing the oil giant to free funds to finance its biggest-ever exploration and production-expansion program. Eni's board...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 12 months ago
Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti (L) has been praised for his austerity measures. Photograph: Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images Italy is just like Spain, just a bit more Catholic. That may seem like an obvious statement in religious terms after a...
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AKI
| 12 months ago
The Italian government will boost taxes on auto fuel like gasoline to help pay for devastation caused by a pair of earthquakes in Italy's north. Prime minister Mario Monti said he extended a state of emergency which allows for relief funds to be...
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BBC
| 12 months ago
Woman rescued from collapsed home 30 May 2012 Last updated at 10:54 ET A woman has been pulled to safety from the rubble of her home, after it collapsed during Tuesday's earthquake in northern Italy. Rescue teams found the woman trapped beneath the...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
The 5.8-magnitude earthquake that hit northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna has claimed its 17th victim, as the body of a worker was pulled from the rubble of a medical equipment factory. Rescue workers recovered the body from what was left of...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 12 months ago
At least 15 people were feared dead and hundreds injured yesterday (Tuesday) after a powerful earthquake struck northern Italy, just nine days after a previous quake killed seven people in the same region. One of the victims of the 5.8 magnitude...
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Ansa
| 12 months ago
Tuesday's earthquake in the northern region of Emilia-Romagna killed 16 people, the Civil Protection Department said, as searches continue for one missing person. Around 350 people were injured and some 8,000 people have been made homeless, joining 6,...
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Ansa
| 12 months ago
Premier Mario Monti has cancelled a trip to Brussels scheduled for Thursday, government sources said on Wednesday, in order to manage the emergency caused by Tuesday's earthquake in Emilia-Romagna, which claimed at least 16 lives. The Cabinet is...
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Al Jazeera English
| 12 months ago
39 Rescuers workers have pulled a woman alive from the rubble of her apartment building, 12 hours after aftershocks of an earthquake claimed at least 16 lives in northern Italy. The 65-year-old was pulled out alive by rescuers on Tuesday night after...
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International Herald Tribune
| 12 months ago
In his efforts to save Italy from the brink of economic disaster, Prime Minister Mario Monti has repeatedly incurred the wrath of taxpayers and pensioners upset by the severity of his measures. Mr. Monti may have made new enemies on Tuesday when he...
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Epoch Times
| 12 months ago
ItalyJust nine days after a magnitude-6.0 earthquake hit the region of Emilia Romagna in northern Italy, the earth shook again Tuesday causing more deaths, collapsed buildings, and displacing thousands of residentsand destroying all hope people had...
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The independent
| 12 months ago
At least 15 people died and 12 were missing yesterday after the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna was struck by a powerful earthquake, the second to hit the area in 10 nine days. Yesterday's 5.8-magnitude tremor caused buildings to collapse...
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Los Angeles Times
| 12 months ago
A strong earthquake on Tuesday devastated north-central Italy for the second time in less than two weeks, leaving at least 13 people dead, some 200 injured and 14,000 homeless. Seismologists said that the worst of the dozens of shocks felt throughout...
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Leader Post Online
| 12 months ago
A strong earthquake on Tuesday rocked northeastern Italy, killing at least 15 people and wounding 200 just days after another quake in the same region wrought death and destruction. Italy's Civil Protection Authority confirmed 15 people had perished...
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Ansa
| 12 months ago
At least 17 people were dead, 200 injured and several missing after the large earthquake that hit the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna Tuesday, authorities said. Rescue services said more people are feared dead under the rubble and further...
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Al Jazeera English
| 12 months ago
35 Italy's prime minister Mario Monti believes drastic action should be taken against the sport [AP] The Italian prime minister Mario Monti has suggested that soccer in the country be suspended two to three years because of the latest match-fixing...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 12 months ago
Karen Kissane May 30, 2012 Read later Second hit ... collapsed buildings in Cavezzo, Italy, after the second earthquake struck. Italy last night, just 10 days after a similar quake killed seven and left thousands homeless. The quake struck at 9.03am...
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United Press International
| 12 months ago
A 5.8-magnitude earthquake in northern Italy Tuesday killed 15 people and collapsed buildings already weakened by an earthquake last week, authorities said...Emergency shelters were being set up in camps, at hotels and aboard trains.
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
On Tuesday morning, a devastating earthquake hit northern Italy for the second time in less than 10 days. The 5.8-magnitude quake in the province of Modena killed at least 12 people and destroyed a number of historic buildings and churches in towns...
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France24
| 12 months ago
A building in Cavezzo, northern central Italy, destroyed by an earthquake on May 29. A friendly football match between Italy and Luxembourg scheduled to take place in Parma on Tuesday was called off after a strong earthquake hit the northern Emilia...
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Russia Today
| 12 months ago
31 A rescue worker walks past a collapsed building, after an earthquake, in Cavezzo near Modena May 29, 2012 (Reuters/Giorgio Benvenuti) (9.2Mb) embed video Several powerful aftershocks have struck Modena in northern Italy, just hours after a 5.8-...
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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
Alessandro Garofalo/Reuters A 5.8-magnitude earthquake shook a large swath of northern Italy on Tuesday morning, killing at least 15 people and bringing down buildings already damaged by a quake that hit the area nine days ago. The tremors, which...
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Arab News
| 12 months ago
An earthquake killed at least 15 people in northern Italy on Tuesday, damaging buildings and spreading panic among thousands of residents still living in tents after a tremor in the same region destroyed their homes just over a week ago. Officials...
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Sacramento Bee
| 12 months ago
Italian authorities say a powerful earthquake has killed at least 15 people and others may be missing in the latest deadly temblor to hit northern Italy. The Tuesday morning quake had a 5.8 magnitude, rocking one of Italy's most productive regions.
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Al Jazeera
| 12 months ago
48 Tuesday's quake and subsequent aftershocks were felt across northern and central Italy [EPA] At least 15 people have been killed and buildings have been damaged in northern Italy by an earthquake and a series of aftershocks just days after another...
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Voice of America
| 12 months ago
A man walks in front of a collapsed church in Mirandola, northern Italy, May 29, 2012. VOA News May 29, 2012 Another deadly earthquake has struck the same northern Italian region devastated by an earthquake just over a week ago...Geological Survey...
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AKI
| 12 months ago
Emilia-Romagna's governor on Tuesday vowed to compensate citizens and businesses hurt by the two earthquakes that have hit the northeastern region in the past ten days, killing at least 17 people, leaving thousands homeless and causing hundreds of...
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The Guardian
| 12 months ago
Staff and agencies Italian firefighters search the debris of a collapsed factory in Mirandola, after an earthquake struck northern Italy. Photograph: Marco Vasini/AP Italy 's friendly against Luxembourg in Parma tonight has been cancelled after the...
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International Herald Tribune
| 12 months ago
Italy's friendly against Luxembourg in Parma on Tuesday has been cancelled after the earthquake which struck the region near the northern city earlier in the day, Italy's football federation said.
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AKI
| 12 months ago
The death-toll in the magnitude 5.8 earthquake that hit the northeastern Emilia-Romagna region Tuesday continued to rise with police telling Adnkronos that at least eight people had been killed in the province of Modena. Three factory workers died...
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Chicago Tribune
| 12 months ago
An earthquake struck northern Italy on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, damaging buildings and spreading panic among thousands of residents still living in tents after a tremor shook the region just over a week ago, destroying their homes.
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International Herald Tribune
| 12 months ago
Less than ten days after an earthquake devastated the Emilia Romagna region of northern Italy, a 5.8-magnitude tremor shook the area Tuesday morning, killing at least ten people, Italian news agencies reported. The new quake destroyed more buildings...
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Inquirer.net
| 12 months ago
Tuesday when a strong earthquake rocked northeastern Italy, just nine days after another quake in the same region wrought death and destruction. The 5.8 magnitude quake struck about 60 kilometers (40 miles) east of the city of Parma, according to the...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 12 months ago
The earthquake, which came after one of a similar magnitude killed seven people on May 20, hit the province of Modena at 9am local time, the Civil Protection Agency said on its website. The quake was felt throughout northern Italy, including the...
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AKI
| 12 months ago
At least three people died in a magnitude 5.8 earthquake Tuesday in the province of Modena in the northeastern Italian Emilia-Romagna region which struck at 9am. The tragedy follows the deaths of four workers ten days ago when the roof of a ceramics...
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Fox
| 12 months ago
Historic buildings crumble after 6.0-magnitude earthquake hits Italy One of the strongest earthquakes to shake northern Italy rattled the region around Bologna early Sunday, a magnitude-6.0 temblor that killed at least three people, toppled some...
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Ansa
| 12 months ago
Northern Italy was hit by another big earthquake on Tuesday, nine days after a 6.0-magnitude quake in Emilia-Romagna killed seven people and caused massive damage. Tuesday's earthquake was of magnitude 5.8, said the Civil Protection department, which...
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Inquirer.net
| 12 months ago
Italy on Tuesday, just nine days after a quake in the same area that killed six people and left thousands in makeshift tent dwellings. According to the National Institute of Geophysics, the quake registered at 0700 GMT was a magnitude of 5.8, Italy's...
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Fox News
| 12 months ago
Historic buildings crumble after 6.0-magnitude earthquake hits Italy One of the strongest earthquakes to shake northern Italy rattled the region around Bologna early Sunday, a magnitude-6.0 temblor that killed at least three people, toppled some...
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Mail Online UK
| 12 months ago
Geological Survey said the epicentre of Tuesday's 5.8 magnitude earthquake, which struck at depth of 6miles, was less than 19 miles from Modena. That is not far from where the magnitude 6 earthquake struck just over a week ago. Messages posted...
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International Business Times
| 12 months ago
A strong quake measuring 6.0 on the Ritcher scale shook northern Italy, near the city of Parma on Tuesday, according to reports. Bologna and 60km east of Parma, at a depth of 9.6km (six miles), Reuters reported. Share This Story Details of any...
