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Jan 16, 2012

Fourteen still missing from Italian ship disaster

GIGLIO, Italy, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Rescue workers
searched the half submerged hulk of a capsized Italian cruise
ship for 14 people still missing on Monday, more than 48 hours
after the huge vessel capsized, killing at least six and
injuring more than 60.

Three people, a South Korean honeymoon couple and a member
of the ship’s crew, were rescued on Sunday and police divers
also recovered the bodies of two elderly men, still wearing
emergency life jackets.

Jan 16, 2012

Rescuers search stricken Italy cruise ship

GIGLIO, Italy, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Italian rescue
workers searched the hulk of a partially submerged cruise ship
for 15 people still missing on Monday, more than two days after
the huge vessel capsized, killing at least five people and
injuring more than 60.

The captain of the 114,500 tonne Costa Concordia was
arrested on Saturday, accused of manslaughter and abandoning his
ship before all of the more than 4,200 passengers and crew had
been evacuated off the west coast of Italy.

Jan 15, 2012

Italian island goes from tranquility to global spotlight

GIGLIO, Italy (Reuters) – Residents of the Italian island of Giglio opened their doors to shipwrecked passengers and rescue teams and worked round the clock to keep them fed and warm after a giant cruiseliner capsized in their quaint port.

While many of the more than 4,000 passengers of the liner Costa Concordia were bitterly critical of the ship’s crew, they were full of praise for the inhabitants of Giglio where they were washed up in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Jan 15, 2012

Two more bodies found on ship, three people rescued

GIGLIO, Italy, Jan 15 (Reuters) – Divers found the
bodies of two elderly men inside a capsized cruiseliner on
Sunday, bringing the known death toll from a spectacular
accident off Italy’s coast to five, with another 70 people
injured.

Divers and other rescuers were painstakingly checking
thousands of cabins on the Italian liner Costa Concordia for 15
people still unaccounted for after the huge vessel foundered and
keeled over with more 4,229 passengers and crew on board.

Jan 15, 2012

Survivors plucked from Italian shipwreck

GIGLIO, Italy, Jan 15 (Reuters) – A South Korean
honeymoon couple and an injured crewmember were plucked from a
capsized Italian liner on Sunday, more than a day after it was
wrecked, as rescue workers struggled to find any others still
trapped on board.

Teams were painstakingly checking thousands of cabins on the
Costa Concordia for people still unaccounted for after the huge
vessel foundered and keeled over with more than 4,000 on board,
killing at least three people and injuring 70.

Jan 15, 2012

Three dead, 40 missing in Italian ship disaster

PORTO SANTO STEFANO, Italy (Reuters) – About 40 people were still missing Sunday more than 24 hours after an Italian cruise ship with more than 4,000 on board capsized off Italy’s west coast, killing at least three people and injuring 70.

The captain of the luxury 114,500-tonne Costa Concordia was being held in jail accused of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship, Italian police said.

Jan 14, 2012

Three die as cruise ship runs aground in Italy

PORTO SANTO STEFANO, Italy (Reuters) – At least three people were killed and rescuers were searching for other victims after an Italian cruise ship carrying more than 4,000 people ran aground and keeled over in shallow waters.

Dozens were injured and around 50 people remained unaccounted for after the 114,500-tonne Costa Concordia hit a sandbar near the island of Giglio off the coast of Tuscany as passengers sat down to dinner on Friday evening.

Dec 27, 2011

Feisty Italy union chief stands between Monti and reform

ROME (Reuters) – A formidable battle is taking shape over the future of Italy’s labor market between Prime Minister Mario Monti, a detached, professorial economist and Susana Camusso, the pugnacious, chain-smoking leader of the country’s largest trade union.

After years of division the three main union confederations appear to have united against reforms Monti says are vital to regain financial markets’ faith, and analysts say he must move fast while his popularity is high and the sense of emergency over Italy’s debt crisis is acute.

Dec 27, 2011

Analysis – Italy union chief stands between Monti and reform

ROME (Reuters) – A formidable battle is taking shape over the future of Italy’s labour market between Prime Minister Mario Monti, a detached, professorial economist and Susana Camusso, the pugnacious, chain-smoking leader of the country’s largest trade union.

After years of division the three main union confederations appear to have united against reforms Monti says are vital to regain financial markets’ faith, and analysts say he must move fast while his popularity is high and the sense of emergency over Italy’s debt crisis is acute.

Dec 21, 2011

Italy economy shrinks, heads for harsh recession

ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s economy shrank in the third quarter, setting the country on course for what is expected to be a prolonged recession hampered by a debt burden demanding harsh austerity.

Gross domestic product in the euro zone’s third-largest economy sank 0.2 percent from the previous three months, hit by a fall in domestic demand. It was up just 0.2 percent year-on-year, national statistics bureau ISTAT reported on Wednesday.