Sicily

The Turkish defense minister met his British and Italian counterparts on Italy's Sicily island on June 11. 

During the tripartite talks, which took place on the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier anchored in the Port of Augusta, Hulusi Akar, Ben Wallace, and Lorenzo Guerini discussed relations in the field of defense and security and regional issues.

A judge in Sicily on Saturday ordered former interior minister Matteo Salvini to stand trial for having refused to let a Spanish migrant rescue ship dock in an Italian port in 2019, keeping the people at sea for days.

Judge Lorenzo Iannelli set September 15 as the trial date during a hearing in the Palermo bunker courtroom, the LaPresse news agency reported.

All health workers in Italy must have coronavirus jabs, the government has announced, in a potentially controversial move aimed at protecting vulnerable patients and pushing back against 'no-vax' sentiment.

Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, on Friday ordered the suspension of vaccination with AstraZeneca until the European Medicines Agency rules that inoculation with the vaccine is not linked to blood clots suffered by some people who recently took the jab.

Brdo pri Kranju – The government has extended the majority of coronavirus restrictions by another week as it prolonged the state of the epidemic by another thirty days as part of its weekly review of measures on Wednesday.

“The current epidemic situation … requires a new, temporally limited declaration of the epidemic across the entire territory of Slovenia,” the government said.

Ljubljana – Slovenia will step up health checks on its borders starting on Monday. It plans to reintroduce checkpoints on internal borders, which were scrapped in mid-February, and tighten quarantine rules for arrivals, Interior Minister Aleš Hojs told the press on Thursday.

The Vatican Museums, including the Sistine Chapel, said they will reopen on Feb. 1 after being closed for 88 days due to coronavirus restrictions - the longest closure since World War II.

The world-famous collections will open their doors to the public from Monday to Saturday, but visitors must pre-book tickets and will be given timed entry slots.

The first "arm" sprung from the south-east crater and is heading towards the Valle del Bove, while the second lava overflow was detected from the north side of the same crater.
The lava eruption, followed by a cloud of ash, being several hundred meters high, was spectacular, eyewitnesses said, writes the British Express.

Italian police on Saturday arrested 19 suspects, dismantling what authorities say was a criminal organization that moved migrants from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Pakistan to Italy and then into northern Europe.

Quarantine is now mandatory in the southern Italian regions of Puglia and Campania for travelers returning from Greece, Spain and Malta, as part of measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, according to Italian media reports on Wednesday.