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How to spend a week in Sicily

€3 aperol spritzes, dangerously good gelato and dream interiors shopping — Meg Honigmann explores Palermo and beyond

Evening Standard · Nov 23, 2022

Girl, 4, forced to sail from Tunisia to Sicily on migrant boat without parents

Girl became separated from parents and disembarked on island of Lampedusa after 26 hours at sea

The Guardian - UK · Nov 2, 2022

A local’s guide to Palermo: sardines, spumante and spontaneous dancing

City food guide Marco Romeo on the sardines, spumante and street dancing that give the Sicilian capital its distinctive vibe

The Guardian - UK · Aug 29, 2022

Looking back at when Sicilian mafia Cosa Nostra assassinated Italian judges

Created on the island of Sicily in the mid-19th century, Cosa Nostra soon became one of the most powerful branches of the Italian mafia. In 1986, the Italian justice system launched a counter-offensive, with the Palermo prosecutor's office leading the charge. Judge Giovanni Falcone became a symbol of the fight…

France 24 · May 27, 2022

Politicians' mafia past stirs anger ahead of Sicily election

Upcoming mayoral elections in the Sicilian capital of Palermo are being overshadowed by the involvement in the campaign of two prominent politicians who have spent time in jail for mafia-related crimes.

Reuters · May 25, 2022

Italy marks 30th anniversary of murder of anti-mafia judge Falcone

ROME: Thirty years ago, the Sicilian mafia killed judge Giovanni Falcone with a bomb so powerful it was registered by experts monitoring volcanic tremors from Etna on the other side of the island.

Bangkok Post · May 18, 2022

Letizia Battaglia: Photographer who documented Mafia carnage

Well aware she was putting her life on the line, Battaglia focused her lens on the bloody feuds between the various crime families in Sicily

The Independent UK · Apr 30, 2022

Letizia Battaglia, who shot life and death in Palermo, dies

Letizia Battaglia, an Italian photographer who documented the arrests of Mafia bosses and the bodies of their victims, has died in her native Sicilian city of Palermo

The Independent UK · Apr 14, 2022

Letizia Battaglia, pioneer photographer who defied the Mafia, dead at 87

Letizia Battaglia, a world-renowned photographer whose courageous work documenting the Mafia's stranglehold on her native Sicily was at once chilling and poignant, has died. She was 87.

Reuters · Apr 14, 2022

Letizia Battaglia, photojournalist who documented mafia crimes, dies aged 87

Anti-mafia journalist from Palermo scoured Sicilian alleyways in 1970s and 1980s to expose brutal violence

The Guardian - UK · Apr 14, 2022