News on L'Aquila

12 investigated in Italy for quake dorm collapse

2010-02-24T17:15:12Z

<div id="subtitle">Prosecutors put 12 people under investigation in quake-triggered collapse of Italian dorm</div><div><p>Prosecutors said Monday they have placed 12 people under investigation over the collapse of a university dormitory that came to symbolize the shoddy construction blamed for so many deaths in Italy's April 6 earthquake.</p><p>Eight students died inside ...

Berlusconi visits Sicily after landslide kills 22

2010-02-24T23:05:35Z

<div><p>Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi visited landslide survivors in Sicily on Sunday as bulldozers dug for bodies in the devastated area where at least 22 people were killed last week.</p><p>Berlusconi said during his visit to Messina on the island's east that those affected ...

A couple Bazzano citizens pose in the balcony of their new inhabitation during the official ceremony of the reconstruction in Bazzano, Aquila district.

2009-09-29T14:36:38Z

epa01879818 A couple Bazzano citizens pose in the balcony of their new inhabitation during the official ceremony of the reconstruction in Bazzano, Aquila district, Italy on 29 September 2009. Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi said on 29 September that the devastated district of L'Aquila will be restored approximately within seven years...

L'Aquila Earthquake - Temporary Shelters Removed

2009-09-24T12:00:51Z

Sep 07, 2009 - L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy - Temporary shelters & tents are dismantled in L'Aquila. On April 6, 2009 an earthquake of 6.3 magnitude struck central Italy with its epicentre near L'Aquila. Many buildings in L'Aquila were damaged. Italian media reports confirmed that many historic buildings collapsed in the centre of the city, and at least 294 deaths, ...

ITALY QUAKE

2009-09-19T04:00:42Z

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, center, flanked by Italian Civil Protection Chief Guido Bertolaso, greets people during the inauguration ceremony for the first new homes in Onna, near L'Aquila, central Italy hands over 1st new houses to survivors of April 6 quake as temblors strike Tuscany</div><div><p>Premier Silvio Berlusconi handed out keys Monday to some of the first new homes for survivors of the April 6 earthquake that devastated parts of central Italy.</p...

Relocation of the L'Aquila earthquake victims

2009-09-15T12:41:50Z

Giuseppe Mancini (L) of a village in the earthquake-hit province of L'Aquila, embraces and lifts Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, shouting 'Great President, thank you for believing what he has done in rebuilding', after the ceremony of the first houses to quake Onna, I...

Italian soldiers dismantle tents that are now no longer needed by the earthquake victims

2009-09-05T09:30:46Z

Italian soldiers dismantle tents that are now no longer needed by the earthquake victims which used the temporary accomadation at Piazza D'Armi, in L'Aquila, central Italy, on 05 September 2009 a L'Aquila....

L'Aquila Earthquake Victims Get Winter Housing

2009-09-05T07:40:59Z

Aug 08, 2009 - L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy - New quake-proof construction efforts underway for the people of L'Aquila who have been left homeless, after the earthquake that struck earlier in the year. 308 peopl died, 1500 were injured, 65,000 left homless....

Entertainment News - September 01, 2009

2009-09-01T19:20:55Z

KIKA) - L'AQUILA, SETTEMBRE - Gli aiuti per i terremotati dell'Aquila sono arrivati da ogni parte d'Italia. C' chi ha spedito coperte e cibo e chi, come un un gruppo di persone, ha semplicemente portato il contatto manuale per alleviare, sottoforma di massaggi, le pene degli aquilani. L'associazione Shiatsudo da luglio presente in una tendopoli nel capoluogo abruzzese dove regala massaggi e momenti di relax agli abitanti. ''Qui l'origine del disag...

Italian first aid staff members help a woman injured in landslides following the earthquake which hit early 06 April at the Eagle

2009-08-28T13:05:50Z

Italian first aid staff members help a woman injured in landslides following the earthquake which hit early 06 April at the Eagle, Asuila area, Central Italy, 06 April 2009. At least 20 people - five of them children - were killed 06 April when a major earthquake rocked the central Italian region of Abruzzo, police said. The regional capital L'Aquila and the th...

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2009-08-16T10:30:59Z

Italian actor and director Roberto Benigni (C) poses for photographs with some Italian firemen in the Paganica tent camp during his visit in Onna, the town devastated by 06 April earthquake, near L'Aquila, Abruzzo region, Italy, 16 August 2009....

Quake victim asks to live with Berlusconi

2010-02-25T20:18:27Z

<div><p>ROME (Reuters) - A man made homeless by April's earthquake in central Italy has asked Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to keep his promise and provide victims with lodging in one of his houses.</p><p>Antonio Bernardini, whose home in the mountain city of

'Miracle' fresco find in Italy's quake-hit village: officials

2010-02-25T21:11:14Z

<div><p>People in the quake-hit mountain village of Onna, near l'Aquila, are talking of a miracle after officials announced Wednesday the discovery of a 15th-century fresco during work on a church.</p><p>The discovery came during renovation work in the village, reduced to rubble by the devastating April 6 earthquake, which also killed 40 ...

Residents must return to undamaged homes in quake zone: official

2010-02-25T23:02:04Z

<div><p>The last few hundred victims of April's earthquake whose homes were never seriously damaged may no longer stay for free in hotels, Italian officials said Friday.</p><p>"These people no longer have the right to be housed at the state's expense" since their homes could accommodate them, a civil defence official based in L'Aquila told AFP.</p><p>About 100 peopl...

Bayern Munich's Ribery hands over a cheque for earthquake victims

2009-08-14T06:57:14Z

Franck Ribery of German Bundesliga club FC Bayern Munichpictured after he handed over a cheque for 13.300 euros to the Italian consul general in Munich, Germany, 06 August 2009. The money will benefit the children of victims of the earthquake in the ...

Toni and Ribery hand over a cheque for L'Aquila earthquake victims

2009-08-14T06:57:12Z

epa01817299 Players of German Bundesliga club FC Bayern Munich, Franck Ribery (R) and Luca Toni (2-R) and restaurant owner Ugo Crocamo (2-L) hand over a cheque for 13.300 euros to Italian consul general Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's private life, but intimate details should stay in the bedroom, the scandal-plagued leader's lawyer told AFP.</p><p>In an interview late Tuesday, lawyer Niccolo Ghedini would neither confirm nor deny the authenticity of ...

(FILE PHOTO) French President Nicolas Sarkozy Admitted To Hopsital

2009-07-26T08:16:20Z

L'AQUILA, ITALY - JULY 10: (FILE PHOTO) French President Nicolas Sarkozy attends a meeting of the G8 at the Guardia Di Finanza School of Coppito on July 10, 2009 in L'Aquila, Italy. Nicolas Sarkozy has bee...

Small islands want deeper emissions cuts

2010-02-26T10:55:51Z

<div><p>Greenhouse gas-cutting targets set by 16 leading nations in Italy this week will not protect island states from climate change, the chair of an alliance of small island nations said Friday.</p><p>"The world has an obligation to ensure that ?no island is left behind,?" said Grenada's UN a...