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At Campo Imperatore where rescuers are fighting against time: “We will bring them home”. But hope is starting to fade. No trace of Luca and Cristian not even in the Valley of Hell from which the SOS had started. Today a new attempt with the helicopter. And under the slopes there is… Among the angels of Gran Sasso on the trail of the mountaineers: “Let’s not give up, we will find them” https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/27/news/tra_gli_angeli_del_gran_sasso_sulle_tracce_degli_alpinisti_non_molliamo_li_troveremo-423908113/?rss

CATANZARO – A 15-year-old boy died and six other young people were injured, some of them seriously, in a road accident that occurred last night in the Pierà area of ​​Catanzaro, in a tunnel stretch of state road 109, which leads in Sila. Two cars were involved in the accident, an Audi 4 and a Lancia Y. The firefighters of the Catanzaro provincial command were on site, extracting the injured, taken to hospital by 118 personnel, from the sheets of the cars on which they travelled. The police were also at the scene of the accident to investigate. Catanzaro, collision…

Santarcangelo di Romagna – We live glued to the phone, waiting for a call to arrive from Abruzzo. «They told us they had to try to have lunch with the helicopter, but there was strong wind. Tomorrow morning it should improve, including visibility, they’ll try again.” “Luca and Cristian will return, as always”: Santarcangelo’s long wait for the two missing people https://bologna.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/27/news/alpinisti_dispersi_santarcangelo_luca_perazzini_cristian_gualdi-423907810/?rss

They had already tried it other times. The parish priest of Orbassano: “They have never been abandoned, but human freedom is greater than everything” “Without Chiara we are shadows”, the ordeal of the parents, suicides like their daughter who was abused as a child https://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/27/news/orbassano_rivalta_giacoletto_chiara_suicidio_figlia_genitori_abusi-423907798/?rss

TRIESTE – A 66-year-old woman died, her 73-year-old husband and 28-year-old daughter hospitalized in very serious conditions. This is the outcome of carbon monoxide poisoning that occurred last night in a house in Carnia, in Forni di Sopra (Udine). The alarm went off at 4.30 am after a call received by the Sores Fvg operations center from the single number for emergencies in Tuscany where the woman’s partner is in serious condition. He had in fact received worried messages from his girlfriend who was having continuous vomiting and symptoms of loss of consciousness. The nurses managed to contact the young…

More than a miracle, a team effort, with unprecedented training. When a patient at the large metropolitan hospital of Reggio Calabria is found to be compatible with a bone marrow transplant, the carabinieri track down the donor. Ten years ago, he expressed his willingness to donate marrow, often the only strategy to fight forms of leukemia and other onco-haematological pathologies. However, no trace of him had been lost and at the time no one was answering the contact numbers he had left. A nightmare for the patient who was counting on that transplant for a chance of recovery. Finding a…

In recent days Sicily, police officers showed up at Palermo hospitals asking for information on possible visits – for visits or hospitalisations – of the fifteen people. The list opens with Bonafede Andrea, born in 1963, from Campobello di Mazzara; continues, with Giglio Giuseppe, not yet clearly identified; followed by Accardo Vito and Bono Gaspare, also from Campobello di Mazara, like all the others. His main alias was Andrea Bonafede, but he also used the documents and driving licenses of other people, who are now being investigated. Messina Denaro, the circle is tightening on 15 people: in the boss’ hideout,…

Japan Airlines suffers hacker attack, according to reports it suffered a cyber attack from unknown hackers and that its flights are experiencing delays as a result. The company also decided to suspend ticket sales for the entire day. Japan Airlines suffers hacker attack “We can confirm that we have been subjected to a cyber attack and we are addressing the situation,” a Japan Airlines spokeswoman said, without adding details about the perpetrator of the attack. Japan Airlines is frantically trying deploy its business continuity plans to avoid further delays between Boxing day and New Years. “At the moment – ​​reports…

Almost 15 years after the seizure, the affair of the Force Blue, the yacht that cost Flavio Briatore a very long legal battle which ended with his definitive acquittal, marks a new, sensational chapter. The entrepreneur has in fact sued for damages before the court of Turin, the judges of the Court of Appeal of Genoa who authorized the sale of the yacht and the Genoese accountant who, as judicial administrator, physically took care of its sale, at the beginning of 2021. “My yacht sold off at a vile price” Flavio Briatore The tycoon is furious and wants his Yacht…

Christmas arrived an hour ago, but no one noticed in Vicolo San Giliberto, in the heart of Ballarò. Two girls with hoodies on their heads argue with a young black man, they want their money back. Christmas night among the crack addicts A gentleman in his fifties laughs, a young man wearing only a short-sleeved t-shirt slips into an abandoned house, another has just left and is now wandering with his eyes lost in space in front of the Church of the Madonna. Hope is dying in Palermo where drugs and poverty have taken control. If you travel among the…

Jubilee, the Pope opened the holy door ROME – Pope Francis opened the holy door of St. Peter’s. As the Pope opened the holy door he said: “Let’s raise our voices, hope is not quiet living” The 88-year-old pontiff, who has recently been suffering from a cold, was pushed in a wheelchair up to the huge, ornate bronze door and knocked on it, before the doors opened. In a ceremony watched on screens by thousands of faithful outside in St Peter’s Square, the Argentine pontiff went through the door followed by a procession, as the bells of the Vatican basilica…

Call them, if you want, Christmas suggestions, but this story that comes from Savona reassigns to the word “community” those values ​​that have been lost over time. And if it’s just a fleeting story of goodness under the tree, never mind. Better than nothing. In short, it all starts from a post that Mrs. Eleonora wrote a few days before Christmas on the Facebook page “Savona disappeared”. post shows a photograph of a small villa overlooking the port, right above the Aurelia and a few tens of meters from the Torretta. In the photo a red arrow points to an…

The Trento prosecutor’s office has opened a case for the accident which, last week, involved a seven-year-old boy in San Martino di Castrozza, who was hit by a snowmobile. The alleged crime is negligent injury. The accident occurred on the afternoon of Monday 16 December on the edge of the ski slopes. From an initial reconstruction, the child would have climbed onto a snowmobile parked at the edge of the slopes of the ski area to take a photograph. The vehicle moved suddenly, picking up speed, overturning and overwhelming the child still on board. Child hit by snowmobile, Trento prosecutor’s…

Two girls lost their lives in a tragic road accident that occurred during the night in San Pietro a Maida, Guarna (Catanzaro). One of the two victims was a minor. According to what was reported by the firefighters, a car with 5 boys on board ended up off the road: three got out alone, the two girls were stuck inside the car which caught fire. The firefighters, 118 health workers and the police intervened on site. (news in progress) Subjects They end up off the road, the car catches fire: two girls die in the province of Catanzaro https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/24/news/catanzaro_incidente_due_ragazze_morte-423905101/?rss

“It’s been Christmas since the end of October. The lights come on earlier and earlier, while the people are more and more intermittent. I would like a December with the lights off and the people on…”, words of Charles Bukowski. The date is not certain, but it is nice to think that it was Christmas Eve: in 1882 Edward H. Johnson, friend and partner of Thomas Edison, decorated his Christmas tree with the first string of electric lights in his New York home. Today’s almanac, December 24th: an electric Christmas Some time had to pass before the Americans accepted the…

Interview with botanist Lorenzo Peruzzi: “Asphalt prevents water from penetrating the ground and excavations cut the roots, which weaken them”. We place them next to the streets as if they were street lamps. They act as a silent backdrop to our cities. “But trees are living beings. Too often we don’t think about them, forcing them to live in unsuitable environments.” Lorenzo Peruzzi teaches botany at the University of Pisa, is the director of the city’s botanical garden, and directs the Italian Society of Biogeography. Woman killed by a tree: “Concrete and wild cuts, so city plants become a risk”…

On December 23, 1992, Scent of a Woman, directed by Martin Brest, was released in American theaters. The interpretation of Colonel Slade earned Al Pacino the only Oscar of his career: the final scene of the “trial” in the college assembly hall – it must be said – deserved a statuette. The film is the successful remake of the 1974 film of the same name, directed by Dino Risi. Today’s almanac, December 23: smell of cinema The director was born on 23 December 1916 in Milan. Before turning to cinema he graduated in Medicine and perhaps it was from his…

The interview: “That boy wasn’t resigned to the end of the story, he even threatened to kill himself saying he couldn’t stay away from her” Martina’s father “I told her: if he exaggerates, let’s report him but she was afraid of ruining him” https://firenze.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/23/news/intervista_padre_martina_accoltellata_oslo-423903113/?rss

MILAN — A breath is enough for the test. “Fill your lungs with air, then exhale as much as you have,” recommends Angela Sabalic, biologist at the European Institute of Oncology in Milan. A woman blows into a mouthpiece and fills two clear bags with air, connected to a box full of chips slightly larger than a bar of soap. The electronic nose that detects tumors. Tests with scientists: “One breath is enough” https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/23/news/naso_elettronico_tumori_come_funziona-423903144/?rss

Martina Voce stabbed in Oslo by Indian ex-lover who wouldn’t take no as an answer in a crazy attack for being dumped. Martina Voce, the 21-year-old girl stabbed by her ex in the Italian fast food shop where she works, left Florence for Norway about two years ago. She was stabbed, on Friday in Oslo after her stalker tormented her on WhatsApp and followed her to an Italian takeaway where she was attacked. She was hospitalised in intensive care, they had broken in the summer and the young Italian just wanted to get on with her life in Norway. Two…

ROME – Giovanni Russo, the prison man of the Meloni government, has resigned. He did so with a letter to the Minister of Justice, Carlo Nordio, after months of silent tensions with the undersecretary, Andrea Delmastro, and the very powerful head of cabinet of the ministry, Giusi Bortolozzi. Carceri, change at the top: tensions with Delmastro behind Russo’s farewell https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/22/news/giovanni_russo_capo_dap_dimissioni_lina_di_domenico-423901719/?rss

In Today’s Almanac we unravel the origins of the Dreyfus case. On December 22, 1894, Alfred Dreyfus was sentenced to life in prison for high treason and sent to Devil’s Island. An army officer, he had been found guilty of espionage in the service of Germany. He was clearly innocent, but had been chosen as a scapegoat by the military leaders because he was Jewish. The real person responsible was someone else, a Catholic. The origins of the Dreyfus case The affair exploded in all its gravity only four years later, in 1898, when the Parisian newspaper L’Aurore published on…

In a declining sector hit by video games, it is the 30-40 year olds who are sustaining sales Christmas becomes the celebration of kidults: the games market saved by adults https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2024/12/22/news/giocattoli_regali_natale_mercato_dati-423901601/?rss

Explosion in a house in Sassi, in the municipality of Molazzana (Lucca) in Garfagnana: two people are being sought. Around midnight the house collapsed, probably due to a gas leak. Firefighters, paramedics, mountain rescue and Carabinieri were on site. The firefighters have put out the flames and the intervention is still underway. Rescuers are removing the rubble by hand. The house is located in an isolated area, outside the town: it was purchased a few years ago by a couple who it is feared could have been inside at the time of the explosion. Mayor Andrea Talani was also on…

Autumn ends and winter begins. The night is the longest, but then the days start to get longer again. The winter solstice falls today: it is the shortest day of the year, the one in which we can enjoy a few hours of light, instead of many hours of darkness. The solstice 2024 The new season begins at 10.21am (Italian time) on Saturday 21 December. It is the day of the solstice, when the Sun remains lower on the horizon, sunset comes early and the hours of darkness last much longer than the rest of the year. Even if winter…