Tag Archives: Italy

• Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs wins 100-metre dash, takes the ‘world’s fastest man’ title 2 August 2021 | Rob Woollard This post has one comment

  Lamont Marcell Jacobs stormed to a shock victory in the Olympics 100m final on Sunday to cap a golden double for Italy on a dramatic day of athletics action at the Tokyo Games. ...

• Milan makes visiting Dalai Lama honorary citizen, angering China 22 October 2016 This post has one comment

  Milan welcomed Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on Thursday and gave him an honorary citizenship on a visit to the northern Italian city, angering China. ...

• Up to 700 feared dead after migrant boat sinks off Libya 19 April 2015 This post has no comments yet

  More than 700 people are feared to have drowned after an overcrowded boat smuggling them to Europe capsized off Libya, officials said Sunday, the Mediterranean's deadliest migrant disaster to date. ...

• Italian city pulls back from making Dalai Lama an honorary citizen 22 June 2012 This post has no comments yet

  Milan has backed away from plans to give the Dalai Lama honorary citizenship because of concerns about upsetting China, although officials in Venice and Rome have already honored the Tibetan spiritual leader. ...