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Rachel Roddy’s recipe for Sicilian quince paste

You could make lovely gifts of this quince cheese for spreading like jam or enjoying with salty cheese

The Guardian - UK

The big picture: Bruno Barbey captures life on the road in 1960s Palermo

The Magnum photographer’s image of a family in Sicily recalls Fellini and Visconti in its romantic depiction of everyday Italian life

The Guardian - UK

How to spend a week in Sicily

€3 aperol spritzes, dangerously good gelato and dream interiors shopping — Meg Honigmann explores Palermo and beyond

Evening Standard

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Italy's right-wing government resuscitates mega Sicily bridge project

Italy's new right-wing government revived on Tuesday moribund plans to connect the island of Sicily to the mainland with a giant bridge - one of the most ambitious engineering projects ever conceived.

Reuters

World Cup 2022: what the dream of football success means to migrants

The FIFA World Cup in Qatar has already been hit by controversy around human rights and the treatment of migrant workers in the host country. As fans around the world board planes to go to the tournament (and then return home), it’s worth paying attention to how football and migration…

The Conversation

Italian oil workers seek deal for Russian-owned refinery

Thousands of workers at a Russian-owned oil refinery in Sicily have protested the facility's possible closure as Europe imposes a full embargo on Russian oil starting next month

The Independent UK

Agrodolce squash hits sweet, sour notes as Thanksgiving side

Sweet and sour cooking in Italy is known as agrodolce (ag-ro-DOLE-chay), and it’s most common in Sicily

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France says Italy's ban on migrant charity ship is 'unacceptable'

France on Wednesday criticised Italy's refusal to let a charity ship carrying over 200 migrants dock in its ports, as the two countries disagreed on where they should disembark.

Reuters

I stayed at the real White Lotus hotel in Sicily – and it is spookily similar to the show

The setting of The White Lotus season two is the Four Seasons’ San Domenico Palace in Sicily. Maddy Mussen takes a trip to uncover its curated smellscape, cursed statues and roster of famous guests

Evening Standard

Under Giorgia Meloni, Italy is refusing safe port to 4 ships that rescue migrants

The weeks-old government is allowing only migrants identified as vulnerable to disembark. Humanitarian groups, activists and two lawmakers protested the selection process as illegal and inhumane.

WEKU

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

'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.

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France 24

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.

The Independent UK

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 Guardian - 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

Marie Claire

Where Was 'The White Lotus' Filmed?

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

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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…

The Guardian - UK

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

Los Angeles Times

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…

Chicago Sun-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.

Evening Standard

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.

Chicago Tribune

‘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…

Reuters

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.

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