Three killed in northern Italy earthquake

Three people have been killed in a 5.9-magnitude earthquake that struck northern Italy near Bologna, according to reports. The quake that struck at just after 4am local time was centred 21.75 miles north-northwest of Bologna at a relatively shallow depth of six miles, the US Geological Survey said. Italian news agency Ansa, citing emergency services, said two people were killed in Sant'Agostino di Ferrara when a ceramics factory collapsed. Another person was killed in Ponte Rodoni do Bondeno. In late January, A 5.4-magnitude quake shook northern Italy. Some office buildings in Milan were evacuated as a precaution and there were scattered reports of falling masonry and cracks in buildings. The tremor was one of the strongest to shake the region, seismologists said. Initial television...

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FISHERMAN has been ordered to pay £1 million as part of the notorious black fish fraud case in the north east of Scotland.

The confiscation order against Ian Buchan, 55, master of the Quantas fishing vessel, is one of the largest ever made against an individual in Scotland.Buchan was one of four captains ordered over the proceeds of their crimes at the High Court in Edinburgh today.They had all previously pled guilty to landing undeclared fish at Fresh Catch Ltd and Alexander Buchan Ltd between 2002 and 2005.Of the others, James Duthie, 55, master of the Sunbeam, was ordered to pay £99,000, Stephen Bellany, 49, master of the Unity, was handed a £64,612 bill, and Oswald McRonald, 64, master of the Quantas, received a confiscation order for £23,669.Confiscation orders totalling almost £3m and fines of about £1m had previously made against 17 skippers involved in what judges described as “an episode of shame” for...

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‘Save euro’ plea to Germans as Spain slumps

BRITAIN yesterday piled pressure on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to save the euro. 6 comments Related Stories PM: Make or break for euro HE to issue plea to Merkel to fork out as only way to stave off meltdown New French Pres gets a soakingFrench warning for CameronSarky poll malarky will leave PM narky David Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne said she must use her financial clout to stop the single currency collapsing. The PM hammered the message home in emergency talks via video-link with Mrs Merkel and French president Francois Hollande. It came as the chaos in Greece spread to Spain — with fears of a run on banks in both countries. Greeks have taken £560million from local banks in the past week. And yesterday Spain’s Bankia bank was forced to deny reports customers had taken...

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Greece must ‘obey or get off euro train’

Top EU officials have decreed Greece should leave the eurozone if unable to stick to the austerity measures imposed by European creditors. The political crisis in Athens is making this scenario not altogether impossible. The parliamentary elections in Greece on May 6 ended with no political party gaining the majority of seats needed to form a government. Now it appears that their hopes of forming a ruling coalition are falling apart like a card-castle. President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso told Italy’s SkyTG24 TV channel that since Greece is unable to fulfill its financial obligations towards the EU, it should leave the eurozone. Barroso compared the single currency to a club, the rules of which are binding for members. The President of the European Commission said however...

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Neo-Nazi party wins seats in Greek parliament

One of the big winners in the Greek election was the far-right Golden Dawn. It passed the three per cent barrier guaranteeing parliamentary participation, and will be the first neo-Nazi formation in the Greek parliament since 1974. Among other things it wants to expel immigrants and mine the border with Turkey. Golden Dawn leader Nikolaos Micholiakos said: “The Greeks were anytime nationalists and now they have the chance to express their political stand. Nobody need fear me if he is a good Greek citizen, for everyone who is a traitor I do not car...

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We don't want your European Union

The election results in France and Greece leave a crystal clear message to those grey elements controlling the European Union, a message from the people who they never bothered to consult as they imposed a failed super-state in an arrogant top-down approach. The Merkozy space is dead. R.I.P. Let me take that back. The Merkozy space is dead, now rot in Hell for all eternity. The message is clear: the people do not want your European Union and the more people you ask, in a democratic process called a Referendum, the louder the message will ring in your ears. It is by now patently clear that the centre-right approach to the economic crisis which the political right created, is pitifully inadequate and woefully out of touch. That is why Hollande beat Sarkozy in France, that is why the Greek elections...

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former world heavyweight champion was spotted in Warsaw with his third wife Lakiha Spicer, and their son, one-year old Morocco Elijah Tyson

He has just finished a sell-out run at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas — Mike Tyson: The Undisputed Truth and a spate of guests appearances in the UK.And today the former world heavyweight champion was spotted in Warsaw with his third wife Lakiha Spicer, and their son, one-year old Morocco Elijah Tyson. But Lakiha, also known as Kiki, was left holding the baby as Tyson appeared in be in the middle of reading a book titled Gangs.Mummy's boy: Morocco clung to his mother as they left the hotel in WarsawThe fallen boxing champ is in Poland with his family to continue what appears to be an attempt at the rehabilitation of his reputation...

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