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The Latest Breaking News from Sicily

Italy stops dozens of asylum seekers on NGO ship from coming ashore

Children and the sick were allowed off when boat run by German organisation SOS Humanity docked in Sicily

The Guardian - UK

Italy Stops 35 Migrants from Getting off Rescue Ship in Port

Italian authorities prevented 35 migrants they did not deem vulnerable from getting off a boat in Sicily on Sunday as Italy's far-right-led government takes a hard line against privately operated maritime rescue ships in Italian waters. The impact of a directive ushered in by Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi became clearer…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Italy stops 35 migrants from getting off rescue ship in port

Italian authorities have prevented 35 migrants they did not deem vulnerable from getting off a boat in Sicily

The Independent UK

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'White Lotus' Season 2 Episode 2 release date, time, plot, cast, and trailer for the HBO show

The sexual tension between the guests in Sicily only goes up from here. Here's everything we know about 'White Lotus' Season 2 Episode 2.

Inverse

German rescue ship Humanity 1 enters Sicilian port, disembarks minors

Italy allowed a humanitarian rescue ship carrying 179 migrants to enter a Sicilian port and begin disembarking minors early Sunday, while refusing to respond to requests for safe harbor from three other ships carrying 900 more people in nearby waters.

France 24

Hundreds of migrants in limbo as Italy closes ports to NGOs

Two German-run migrant rescue ships carrying nearly 300 rescued people are waiting off the eastern coast of Sicily

The Independent UK

Girl, 4, forced to sail from Tunisia to Sicily on migrant boat without parents

Girl became separated from parents and disembarked on island of Lampedusa after 26 hours at sea

The Guardian - UK

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Where Was 'The White Lotus' Filmed?

The HBO series' biggest season yet filmed in sites ranging from luxury hotels to outdoor clubs.

Marie Claire

Simple Minds' Jim Kerr on finding a creative outlet during lockdown

Their pop-synth sound became emblematic of the 1980s. Scottish band Simple Minds topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic with hits like "Don't You Forget About Me" and "Alive and Kicking", selling more than 60 million albums and filling stadiums around the world. Founding member Jim Kerr tells…

France 24

The White Lotus is back – with awful rich people, unsatisfying sex and Jennifer Coolidge. What’s not to love?

The Emmy-winning drama returns for a second season, now relocated to Sicily. It’s packed with the same complex relationship dynamics and let’s face it: you’re going to watch

The Guardian - UK

Review: 'The White Lotus' returns for Season 2, slowed down and sexed up

Mike White's sorrows-of-the-rich comedy "The White Lotus" returns Sunday to HBO with a second season, set in Sicily. The first won some Emmys, for limited or anthology series, for White as a writer and director and for actors Jennifer Coolidge and Murray Bartlett. The tissue connecting that year and this…

Los Angeles Times

‘The White Lotus’: A week in Sicily does the show good in Season Two

The resort’s wealthy, obnoxious guests — including Aubrey Plaza, Michael Imperioli and the returning Jennifer Coolidge — are more interesting this time around.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sicily: Plane tasked with extinguishing blaze crashes into volcano ‘killing pilots’

A plane has crashed into the side of Sicily’s Mount Etna volcano while attempting to put out a fire below.

Evening Standard

‘The White Lotus’ review: Season 2 jets to Sicily for another rendition of Rich People Talking

Nobody captures the emptiness of wealth like HBO. Regardless of genre, no other network is quite so committed to centering the lives of the rich and dissatisfied, from “Succession” to “The Gilded Age” to “House of the Dragon” to “The White Lotus,” the latter of which is back for another…

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Over 1,150 migrants rescued off Italy as new govt mulls ban on 2 NGO ships

Two migrants were found dead and more than 1,150 were rescued off Sicily, the coast guard said on Wednesday, as the new nationalist government in Rome threatened to prevent two refugee boats run by charities from entering Italian waters.

The Guardian - UK

Giorgia Meloni faces first migration test from two NGO rescue boats

Vessels carrying at least 380 people could ask Italian authorities to disembark them in Sicily safe port

The Guardian - UK

The White Lotus season two review – this immaculate show’s writing is utterly unrivalled

The glorious, layered comedy-drama is back – with sex on its mind. Set in Sicily, impeccable turns come from Jennifer Coolidge and new faces including Aubrey Plaza

The Guardian - UK

Matteo Salvini revives ancient dream of building bridge to Sicily

Italy’s infrastructure minister says plan is one of his goals, despite cost, impracticability and seismic risk

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Evening Standard

The White Lotus season two review: carnal carnage in Sicily makes for a gripping second series

It’s all salacity in Sicily

Chicago Tribune

‘From Scratch’ review: Zoe Saldaña in a Netflix story of love and loss that wouldn’t be out of place on Hallmark

After the death of her husband from cancer, actress Tembi Locke wrote a 2019 memoir about the experience called “From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home.” In her first few years as a widow, she and her young daughter spent their summers in the small town of…

Daily Mirror

British woman collapses and dies after swimming in 'rough and cold' sea in Sicily

Police said that the holidaymakers had gone for a swim despite the water being "rough and cold", on a beach where there is no lifeguard on duty

Chicago Sun-Times

Swiss chard serves up plenty of nutrition in those massive leaves

Despite its name, the vegetable is native to Sicily and the Mediterranean region and might better be named Sicilian beet.

The Independent UK

Silvio Berlusconi, 85, celebrates as girlfriend Marta Fascina, 32, wins parliamentary seat

Marta Fascina was elected in Sicily

The Independent UK

Flight-free Malta? It’s easier than you might think

Reaching this Mediterranean island nation by sea makes for an exhilarating adventure, finds Lucie Grace

Nottingham Post

BBC Strictly Come Dancing Rose Ayling-Ellis visits dance partner Giovanni Pernice's family in Sicily

The visit comes as romance rumours have surrounded the pair for months, with 27-year-old Rose said to have split from her boyfriend Samuel Arnold

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