L'aquila, Italy News

Seven months after the terrible earthquake that hit Italy's Abruzzo region on April 6, children from San Giacomo, a small town in L'Aquila, are still reeling from its impact.

A representative of the township's Italian-American community will travel to L'Aquila, Italy, next week to present a donation to earthquake victims there.

E-mail: claudiop@marshall.edu Received 16 March 2009; Accepted 7 October 2009; Published online 3 November 2009.

When fractured bones fail to heal, a serious complication referred to as "nonunion" can develop.

Protesters clash with riot police during a demonstration against the expansion of a U.S. military base in the northern Italian city of Vicenza on Saturday.

A man views a Facebook webpage for a chat group called - Uccidiamo Berlusconi' in Rome .

Export Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America , Vol. 95, No. 4. , pp. 1469-1481. nilsma Abstract Recent accelerometric recordings of earthquakes with moderate and intermediate magnitude , at both local and regional distances, show a significant ground-motion amplification effect at low frequencies in the city of L'Aquila . The effect ...

One thing about Joe Jackson: He sure is busy cashing in on his superstar son's death.

Silvio Berlusconi, the embattled Italian Prime Minister, has been warned to avoid "spontaneous" public walkabouts after alleged death threats.

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Rome - Prosecutors said on Monday they have placed 12 people under investigation over the collapse of a university dormitory that came to symbolise the shoddy construction blamed for so many deaths in Italy's April 6 earthquake.

As part of the BBC's Hunger to Learn series, Duncan Kennedy sees how pupils of one school in the Italian city of L'Aquila are getting on after it was destroyed by an earthquake in April.

Companies controlled by the Sicilian Mafia are trying to win a share of the lucrative re-construction work in the area of central Italy hit by last April's devastating earthquake, a new report says.

The earthquake that struck L'Aquila last April destroyed many of the city's schools.

When disaster strikes an area, hospitals are the most critical infrastructure. So it is essential to protect the hospitals themselves from disasters, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has pointed out.

The College of Staten Island has agreed to host two displaced university students from earthquake-devastated L'Aquila, Italy, at the behest of Rep.

Les Perreaux Montreal - Last updated on Tuesday, Oct. 06, 2009 08:15PM EDT T he food crisis in the developing world is far from over, and international emergency food agencies are bracing for the next blow.

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Disasters in Italy have a predictable chronology: after the calamity strikes, rescues are attempted, destiny is lamented and pledges are made to rebuild destroyed towns.

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi promised Sunday to build new houses for the victims of massive mudslides in Sicily that killed at least 22 people and left more than 500 homeless.