Seventy years ago, this week, the Western Allies launched their first amphibious assault on mainland Europe, as American soldiers in the U.S. Army’s 36th Infantry Division (Texas Division) landed under fire on a beach south of Salerno, Italy. The Sept. 9, 1943, attack on the Italian town of Paestum was the untried 36th’s first combat […]
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Sicily’s governor aims to break mob, machismo barriers
PALERMO, Italy — Of the last two men to sit in Sicily’s palatial governor’s office, one is up on criminal charges and the other is doing hard time. Enter their successor, Rosario Crocetta — the unlikeliest politician ever to govern Cosa Nostra country. Back when he was mayor of a coastal town plagued by mob […]
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Rome bus crash kills at least 37
ROME (AP) — A tour bus filled with Italians returning home after an excursion plunged off a highway into a ravine in southern Italy on Sunday night after it had smashed into several cars that were slowed by heavy traffic, killing at least 37 people, said police and rescuers. Flashing signs near Avellino, outside Naples, […]