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The Latest Breaking News from Sicily

Azzurra: New Chelsea Italian will celebrate the food of Sicily and the Amalfi Coast

Restauratuer David Yeo has created a ‘boat-to-table’ experience

Evening Standard

Mount Etna volcanic eruption forces Sicily’s main airport to close

Around 200 flights to and from Sicily were disrupted after the eruption of Mount Etna forced nearby Catania airport to close.

Evening Standard

Mount Etna eruption leads to flight cancellations at Sicily’s Catania airport

Catania’s mayor has banned the use of motorcycles and bikes while many streets in the city remain covered by ash as a result of the erupting volcano

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10 short-haul holidays to book for autumn sunshine

Whether you want a luxe fly and flop break or a sun-soaked adventure, Rosalyn Wikeley has the autumn hotspots guaranteed to give you the vitamin D hit you’ve been craving

Evening Standard

Airport in Sicily closed as Mount Etna erupts

The 3,357m-tall volcano erupted on Sunday night

Evening Standard

Italy probes a migrant boat disaster that left 41 feared dead. Four survivors tell a harrowing tale

Prosecutors in Sicily are investigating the capsizing of a boat that left 41 migrants missing in the Mediterranean Sea

The Independent UK

Three underwater volcanoes discovered off Sicily

Researchers hail ‘very important discovery’ that sheds light on unexplored Italian seabed

The Guardian - UK

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‘It’s a special stretch of coast because Mount Etna hovers over it like a spirit’: Antonio Denti’s best phone picture

The Reuters cameraman embraced the opportunity to capture life with his family in Sicily, where he grew up

The Guardian - UK

Four Tunisians arrested for piracy over engine thefts from migrant boats

Men held in Sicily accused of intercepting vessels and demanding cash, phones and vital engines

The Guardian - UK

Kate Hudson Sums Up Family Vacation to Sicily in Two Words: “Happiness and Pasta”

The actress took us along as she explored the Italian island.

Marie Claire

Southern Europe and north Africa count heavy cost of wildfires

As extreme heat recedes, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain and Algeria reflect on lives lost, environmental damage and costs to livelihoods

The Guardian - UK

Extreme weather events are exactly the time to talk about climate change – here's why

Record-breaking heatwaves are sweeping across the northern hemisphere, affecting large parts of southern Europe, the US and China. On July 24, Sicily recorded blistering temperatures of more than 47.5℃ and wildfires are currently tearing through Greece. The heatwaves come as record numbers of fires continue to burn across Canada.

The Conversation

Thousands of Britons unable to fly into Sicily due to post-Brexit passport checks

As many as 50,000 British holidaymakers have been affected since Catania airport closed on 16 July

The Independent UK

More than 40 people killed as wildfires rage in nine Mediterranean countries in record heatwave

Thousands of firefighters tackle spreading flames as Rhodes placed under state of emergency

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Al Jazeera

Fires kill three people in Sicily; Greece sees some wildfire respite

Wildfires raging across Greece for more than a week abate, while Italy counts three more deaths in devastating blaze.

Evening Standard

OPINION - I’m now going to Orkney instead of Sicily… can the summer holiday in the Med survive?

Post-pandemic, I’ve become a right Little Englander, even though I’m from Glasgow. I hate leaving the country because I hate travel, and I loathe flying. Gone are the days of any kind of nostalgic glamour a la Alan Whicker or that scene in Catch Me If You Can where Leonardo…

Evening Standard

Mediterranean wildfires: At least 40 killed as blazes continue to spread in Portugal and Spain

Firefighters have been battling flames across the Mediterranean as villages and holiday resorts are evacuated

The Independent UK

Thousands of Britons unable to fly into Sicily due to post-Brexit passport checks

As many as 50,000 British holidaymakers have been affected since Catania airport closed on 16 July

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The Guardian - UK

Strike threats in Italy and stoppages in Greece as workers struggle with heat

Parts of Sicily reach almost 47C and Spanish coastal water temperatures hit new high for mid-July

Tribune News Service

Italy breaking temperature records as wildfires rage in Greece

Europe’s heat wave is getting worse, with temperatures forecast to peak at 47C (116.6F) on Wednesday in Sicily and Sardinia, while wildfires continue to rage in Greece.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Greece battles wildfires as temperature in Italy forecast to hit 46C

Highs of between 46 and 48C forecast in Sicily and Sardinia, as parts of Europe, Asia and North America face surging temperatures. Plus, why first loves can shape our lives for ever

The Guardian - UK

European heatwave: red alerts issued for 16 cities in Italy

Rome, Florence and Bologna among areas affected as forecasters say Sicily and Sardinia could face record 49C temperatures

The Conversation

European heatwave: what’s causing it and is climate change to blame?

Europe is currently in the midst of a heatwave. Italy, in particular, is expected to face blistering heat, with temperatures projected to reach 40℃ to 45℃. There’s even a chance that the current European temperature record of 48.8℃, set in Sicily in 2021, could be surpassed.

Daily Mirror

Ray Winstone's very different career in Italy after his acting work dried up

The Cockney actor is living in Sicily amid Hollywood writers' strike and has also finally quit smoking after 44 years

France 24

Nobel literature laureate Annie Ernaux on gender and social class

For decades, Annie Ernaux has written fearlessly about sex, abortion and illness – laying bare herself and society. Her deeply intimate and political work earned the French writer the Nobel Prize for literature last October. Ernaux spoke to FRANCE 24's Fatimata Wane at the Taormina book festival in Sicily, where…

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