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  • May 26, 2017 - Taormina, Sicily, Italy - The President of the European Council Donald Tusk during the welcome ceremony and the photo family at Taormina, Italy on May 26, 2017...Photo Matteo Ciambelli / NurPhoto  (Credit Image: © Matteo Ciambelli/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • May 27, 2017 - Sigonella, Sicily, Italy - U.S. President Donald Trump salutes as he arrives by helicopter to addresses service members at Naval Air Station Sigonella before returning home from his nine-day overseas trip May 27, 2017 in Sigonella, Italy. (Credit Image: © Samuel Guerra/Planet Pix via ZUMA Wire)
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  • May 24, 2019 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Students demonstrate during the Fridays for Future - climate strikes for the implementation of the Paris World Climate Agreement in Palermo, Italy, on 24 May 2019...After meeting in front of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, about a thousand people traveled via Maqueda and Corso Vittorio Emanuele to Piazza del Parlamento, where the presidency building of the Sicilian region is located, Palermo, May 24, 2019  (Credit Image: © Francesco Militello Mirto/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • May 4, 2019 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Giorgia Meloni, member of the Italian Parliament and President of the Brothers of Italy Party, political party of Right, visits Palermo, Italy, on 4 May 2019, in view of the European elections in May  (Credit Image: © Francesco Militello Mirto/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • May 27, 2017 - Taormina, Sicily, Italy - US First Lady MELANIA TRUMP with France's First Lady BRIGITTE TROGNEUX during the second day of G7 Taormina summit tour the island of Sicily. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • May 27, 2017 - Taormina, Sicily, Italy - German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L),U.S. President Donald Trump (2L), italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentikoni (2R) and French President Emmanuel Macron (R) during the G7 Summit expanded session in Taormina, Sicily, on May 27, 2017. (Credit Image: © Christian Minelli/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • May 27, 2017 - Taormina, Sicily, Italy - Painting of Leaders of G7 Summit are show in the island of Sicily in Taormina. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • May 27, 2017 - Taormina, Sicily, Italy - U.S. President Donald Trump (R) talks to German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) during the G7 Summit expanded session in Taormina, Sicily, on May 27, 2017. (Credit Image: © Christian Minelli/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • May 27, 2017 - Taormina, Sicily, Italy - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the G7 Summit expanded session in Taormina, Sicily, on May 27, 2017. (Credit Image: © Christian Minelli/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
    682093_029.jpg
  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
    682093_025.jpg
  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. Mummie of brother Silvestro of Gubbio (16 oct. 1599) the oldest of the catacombs. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. In the center the mummified body of Antonio Prestigiacomo ( d.1844) one of the best preserved. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - In the crypt of the Capuchin Church of Burgio, a magnificent village situated 100 kilometres south of Palermo,Sicily, Italy on January 2019 the dead are perfectly staged. In all, there are around 50 mummies, most in the upright position, all elegantly dressed. The women wear splendid lace dresses, a little faded, and the men their best hat. Almost all of these mummies date to the 18th and 19th centuries. The most recent were added at the beginning of the 20th century. In the shadows, illuminated with a small bright torch, Luisa Maria Lo Gerfo examines the skull of an elegant bourgeois deceased 150 years ago. Anthropologist, biologist, archaeologist and Sicilian mummy specialist, she regularly works on mummies whether they are in an upright position or elongated in richly decorated open coffins. She measures limbs, diagnoses diseases according to abnormalities and scars, inspects dresses, mantillas, costumes, top hats and scarves. "Not everyone could afford to be mummified", she explains. "The more one was part of high society, the closer one was to the altar, the heart of the church. The poorest were buried outside the church." Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - In the crypt of the Capuchin Church of Burgio, a magnificent village situated 100 kilometres south of Palermo,Sicily, Italy on January 2019 the dead are perfectly staged. In all, there are around 50 mummies, most in the upright position, all elegantly dressed. The women wear splendid lace dresses, a little faded, and the men their best hat. Almost all of these mummies date to the 18th and 19th centuries. The most recent were added at the beginning of the 20th century. In the shadows, illuminated with a small bright torch, Luisa Maria Lo Gerfo examines the skull of an elegant bourgeois deceased 150 years ago. Anthropologist, biologist, archaeologist and Sicilian mummy specialist, she regularly works on mummies whether they are in an upright position or elongated in richly decorated open coffins. She measures limbs, diagnoses diseases according to abnormalities and scars, inspects dresses, mantillas, costumes, top hats and scarves. "Not everyone could afford to be mummified", she explains. "The more one was part of high society, the closer one was to the altar, the heart of the church. The poorest were buried outside the church." Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
    682093_015.jpg
  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - In the crypt of the Capuchin Church of Burgio, a magnificent village situated 100 kilometres south of Palermo,Sicily, Italy on January 2019 the dead are perfectly staged. In all, there are around 50 mummies, most in the upright position, all elegantly dressed. The women wear splendid lace dresses, a little faded, and the men their best hat. Almost all of these mummies date to the 18th and 19th centuries. The most recent were added at the beginning of the 20th century. In the shadows, illuminated with a small bright torch, Luisa Maria Lo Gerfo examines the skull of an elegant bourgeois deceased 150 years ago. Anthropologist, biologist, archaeologist and Sicilian mummy specialist, she regularly works on mummies whether they are in an upright position or elongated in richly decorated open coffins. She measures limbs, diagnoses diseases according to abnormalities and scars, inspects dresses, mantillas, costumes, top hats and scarves. "Not everyone could afford to be mummified", she explains. "The more one was part of high society, the closer one was to the altar, the heart of the church. The poorest were buried outside the church." Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
    682093_014.jpg
  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - In the crypt of the Capuchin Church of Burgio, a magnificent village situated 100 kilometres south of Palermo,Sicily, Italy on January 2019 the dead are perfectly staged. In all, there are around 50 mummies, most in the upright position, all elegantly dressed. The women wear splendid lace dresses, a little faded, and the men their best hat. Almost all of these mummies date to the 18th and 19th centuries. The most recent were added at the beginning of the 20th century. In the shadows, illuminated with a small bright torch, Luisa Maria Lo Gerfo examines the skull of an elegant bourgeois deceased 150 years ago. Anthropologist, biologist, archaeologist and Sicilian mummy specialist, she regularly works on mummies whether they are in an upright position or elongated in richly decorated open coffins. She measures limbs, diagnoses diseases according to abnormalities and scars, inspects dresses, mantillas, costumes, top hats and scarves. "Not everyone could afford to be mummified", she explains. "The more one was part of high society, the closer one was to the altar, the heart of the church. The poorest were buried outside the church." Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - In the crypt of the Capuchin Church of Burgio, a magnificent village situated 100 kilometres south of Palermo,Sicily, Italy on January 2019 the dead are perfectly staged. In all, there are around 50 mummies, most in the upright position, all elegantly dressed. The women wear splendid lace dresses, a little faded, and the men their best hat. Almost all of these mummies date to the 18th and 19th centuries. The most recent were added at the beginning of the 20th century. In the shadows, illuminated with a small bright torch, Luisa Maria Lo Gerfo examines the skull of an elegant bourgeois deceased 150 years ago. Anthropologist, biologist, archaeologist and Sicilian mummy specialist, she regularly works on mummies whether they are in an upright position or elongated in richly decorated open coffins. She measures limbs, diagnoses diseases according to abnormalities and scars, inspects dresses, mantillas, costumes, top hats and scarves. "Not everyone could afford to be mummified", she explains. "The more one was part of high society, the closer one was to the altar, the heart of the church. The poorest were buried outside the church." Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - At the crypt of the Mother Church dedicated to San Nicolò of Bari in Gangi, Sicily, Italy on January 2019 one can discover standing well aligned in niches, the well conserved mummies of 44 priests of the parish "Once a month", Father Don Giuseppe known as Pinot said, "I celebrate the mass here surrounded by my faithful and by my fellows. They remind us that we are passing through this earth and they are still part of our lives years after their departure. You will notice that each one of them displays above their heads a eulogy in the form of a poem retracing their lives."<br />
Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
    682093_009.jpg
  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - At the crypt of the Mother Church dedicated to San Nicolò of Bari in Gangi, Sicily, Italy on January 2019 one can discover standing well aligned in niches, the well conserved mummies of 44 priests of the parish "Once a month", Father Don Giuseppe known as Pinot said, "I celebrate the mass here surrounded by my faithful and by my fellows. They remind us that we are passing through this earth and they are still part of our lives years after their departure. You will notice that each one of them displays above their heads a eulogy in the form of a poem retracing their lives."<br />
Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
    682093_004.jpg
  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. The mummified body of Antonio Prestigiacomo ( d.1844) one of the best preserved. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
    682093_036.jpg
  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo , Sicily, Italy. January 2019. One of the last to be buried there before it closed in 1920 was Rosalia Lombardo, the child whose body has remained remarkably intact due to a process only recently discovered.<br />
The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - In the crypt of the Capuchin Church of Burgio, a magnificent village situated 100 kilometres south of Palermo,Sicily, Italy on January 2019 the dead are perfectly staged. In all, there are around 50 mummies, most in the upright position, all elegantly dressed. The women wear splendid lace dresses, a little faded, and the men their best hat. Almost all of these mummies date to the 18th and 19th centuries. The most recent were added at the beginning of the 20th century. In the shadows, illuminated with a small bright torch, Luisa Maria Lo Gerfo examines the skull of an elegant bourgeois deceased 150 years ago. Anthropologist, biologist, archaeologist and Sicilian mummy specialist, she regularly works on mummies whether they are in an upright position or elongated in richly decorated open coffins. She measures limbs, diagnoses diseases according to abnormalities and scars, inspects dresses, mantillas, costumes, top hats and scarves. "Not everyone could afford to be mummified", she explains. "The more one was part of high society, the closer one was to the altar, the heart of the church. The poorest were buried outside the church." Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - In the crypt of the Capuchin Church of Burgio, a magnificent village situated 100 kilometres south of Palermo,Sicily, Italy on January 2019 the dead are perfectly staged. In all, there are around 50 mummies, most in the upright position, all elegantly dressed. The women wear splendid lace dresses, a little faded, and the men their best hat. Almost all of these mummies date to the 18th and 19th centuries. The most recent were added at the beginning of the 20th century. In the shadows, illuminated with a small bright torch, Luisa Maria Lo Gerfo examines the skull of an elegant bourgeois deceased 150 years ago. Anthropologist, biologist, archaeologist and Sicilian mummy specialist, she regularly works on mummies whether they are in an upright position or elongated in richly decorated open coffins. She measures limbs, diagnoses diseases according to abnormalities and scars, inspects dresses, mantillas, costumes, top hats and scarves. "Not everyone could afford to be mummified", she explains. "The more one was part of high society, the closer one was to the altar, the heart of the church. The poorest were buried outside the church." Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - In the crypt of the Capuchin Church of Burgio, a magnificent village situated 100 kilometres south of Palermo,Sicily, Italy on January 2019 the dead are perfectly staged. In all, there are around 50 mummies, most in the upright position, all elegantly dressed. The women wear splendid lace dresses, a little faded, and the men their best hat. Almost all of these mummies date to the 18th and 19th centuries. The most recent were added at the beginning of the 20th century. In the shadows, illuminated with a small bright torch, Luisa Maria Lo Gerfo examines the skull of an elegant bourgeois deceased 150 years ago. Anthropologist, biologist, archaeologist and Sicilian mummy specialist, she regularly works on mummies whether they are in an upright position or elongated in richly decorated open coffins. She measures limbs, diagnoses diseases according to abnormalities and scars, inspects dresses, mantillas, costumes, top hats and scarves. "Not everyone could afford to be mummified", she explains. "The more one was part of high society, the closer one was to the altar, the heart of the church. The poorest were buried outside the church." Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - At the crypt of the Mother Church dedicated to San Nicolò of Bari in Gangi, Sicily, Italy on January 2019 one can discover standing well aligned in niches, the well conserved mummies of 44 priests of the parish "Once a month", Father Don Giuseppe known as Pinot said, "I celebrate the mass here surrounded by my faithful and by my fellows. They remind us that we are passing through this earth and they are still part of our lives years after their departure. You will notice that each one of them displays above their heads a eulogy in the form of a poem retracing their lives."<br />
Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - At the crypt of the Mother Church dedicated to San Nicolò of Bari in Gangi, Sicily, Italy on January 2019 one can discover standing well aligned in niches, the well conserved mummies of 44 priests of the parish "Once a month", Father Don Giuseppe known as Pinot said, "I celebrate the mass here surrounded by my faithful and by my fellows. They remind us that we are passing through this earth and they are still part of our lives years after their departure. You will notice that each one of them displays above their heads a eulogy in the form of a poem retracing their lives."<br />
Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - At the crypt of the Mother Church dedicated to San Nicolò of Bari in Gangi, Sicily, Italy on January 2019 one can discover standing well aligned in niches, the well conserved mummies of 44 priests of the parish "Once a month", Father Don Giuseppe known as Pinot said, "I celebrate the mass here surrounded by my faithful and by my fellows. They remind us that we are passing through this earth and they are still part of our lives years after their departure. You will notice that each one of them displays above their heads a eulogy in the form of a poem retracing their lives."<br />
Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - At the crypt of the Mother Church dedicated to San Nicolò of Bari in Gangi, Sicily, Italy on January 2019 one can discover standing well aligned in niches, the well conserved mummies of 44 priests of the parish "Once a month", Father Don Giuseppe known as Pinot said, "I celebrate the mass here surrounded by my faithful and by my fellows. They remind us that we are passing through this earth and they are still part of our lives years after their departure. You will notice that each one of them displays above their heads a eulogy in the form of a poem retracing their lives."<br />
Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - A monk in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - The Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily, Italy on January 2019. The catacombs contain about 8000 corpses and 1252 mummies. Palermo's Capuchin monastery outgrew its original cemetery in the 16th century and monks began to excavate crypts below it. In 1599 they mummified one of their number, recently dead brother Silvestro of Gubbio, and placed him into the catacombs. The cemetery was first reserved for ecclesiastical workers, then accepted deceased from all walks of life, and experienced its greatest popularity during the 19th century. An inscription hanging from the neck or pinned to the chest, indicates the name, birth and death dates of the deceased.The cemetary was officially closed by civil order in 1880. But the last burials are from the 1920s. The cemetary has now become a kind of museum, filled with the forgotten dead, who are watched over by a group of Capuchin monks. Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - In the crypt of the Capuchin Church of Burgio, a magnificent village situated 100 kilometres south of Palermo,Sicily, Italy on January 2019 the dead are perfectly staged. In all, there are around 50 mummies, most in the upright position, all elegantly dressed. The women wear splendid lace dresses, a little faded, and the men their best hat. Almost all of these mummies date to the 18th and 19th centuries. The most recent were added at the beginning of the 20th century. In the shadows, illuminated with a small bright torch, Luisa Maria Lo Gerfo examines the skull of an elegant bourgeois deceased 150 years ago. Anthropologist, biologist, archaeologist and Sicilian mummy specialist, she regularly works on mummies whether they are in an upright position or elongated in richly decorated open coffins. She measures limbs, diagnoses diseases according to abnormalities and scars, inspects dresses, mantillas, costumes, top hats and scarves. "Not everyone could afford to be mummified", she explains. "The more one was part of high society, the closer one was to the altar, the heart of the church. The poorest were buried outside the church." Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - In the crypt of the Capuchin Church of Burgio, a magnificent village situated 100 kilometres south of Palermo,Sicily, Italy on January 2019 the dead are perfectly staged. In all, there are around 50 mummies, most in the upright position, all elegantly dressed. The women wear splendid lace dresses, a little faded, and the men their best hat. Almost all of these mummies date to the 18th and 19th centuries. The most recent were added at the beginning of the 20th century. In the shadows, illuminated with a small bright torch, Luisa Maria Lo Gerfo examines the skull of an elegant bourgeois deceased 150 years ago. Anthropologist, biologist, archaeologist and Sicilian mummy specialist, she regularly works on mummies whether they are in an upright position or elongated in richly decorated open coffins. She measures limbs, diagnoses diseases according to abnormalities and scars, inspects dresses, mantillas, costumes, top hats and scarves. "Not everyone could afford to be mummified", she explains. "The more one was part of high society, the closer one was to the altar, the heart of the church. The poorest were buried outside the church." Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - At the crypt of the Mother Church dedicated to San Nicolò of Bari in Gangi, Sicily, Italy on January 2019 one can discover standing well aligned in niches, the well conserved mummies of 44 priests of the parish "Once a month", Father Don Giuseppe known as Pinot said, "I celebrate the mass here surrounded by my faithful and by my fellows. They remind us that we are passing through this earth and they are still part of our lives years after their departure. You will notice that each one of them displays above their heads a eulogy in the form of a poem retracing their lives."<br />
Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • NO WEB FOR FRANCE - At the crypt of the Mother Church dedicated to San Nicolò of Bari in Gangi, Sicily, Italy on January 2019 one can discover standing well aligned in niches, the well conserved mummies of 44 priests of the parish "Once a month", Father Don Giuseppe known as Pinot said, "I celebrate the mass here surrounded by my faithful and by my fellows. They remind us that we are passing through this earth and they are still part of our lives years after their departure. You will notice that each one of them displays above their heads a eulogy in the form of a poem retracing their lives."<br />
Sicily will reveal over time a real research laboratory on mummification. It is spreading throughout the island and there is not an important village in sight that does not display the bodies of their priests, monks or citizens in the crypt of their church. Photo by Eric Vandeville/ABACAPRESS.COM
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  • May 29, 2017 - Catania, Sicily, Italy - Following G7 disembarkment ban in Sicily, a ship docked in Catania, Italy on 29 May 2017 with roughly 1000 new migrants. What appeared to be a body bag was pulled out of the ship. (Credit Image: © Diego Cupolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • May 26, 2017 - Taormina, Italy - Brigitte Macron and Emmanuel Macron  at the G7 Taormina summit on the island of Sicily on May 26, 2017 in Taormina, Italy. Leaders of the G7 group of nations, which includes the Unted States, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy, as well as the European Union, are meeting at Taormina from May 26-27. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • May 26, 2017 - Taormina, Italy - (From L to R) European Council President Donald Tusk, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. President Donald Trump, Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, British Prime Minister Theresa May and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker pose for the group photo at the G7 Taormina summit on the island of Sicily on May 26, 2017 in Taormina, Italy. Leaders of the G7 group of nations, which includes the Unted States, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy, as well as the European Union, are meeting at Taormina from May 26-27. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • May 26, 2017 - Taormina, Italy - Prime Minister of Canada JUSTIN TRUDEAU and President-elect EMMANUEL MACRON outside walking  at the G7 Taormina summit on the island of Sicily. Leaders of the G7 group of nations, which includes the Unted States, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy, as well as the European Union, are meeting at Taormina from May 26-27. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • May 26, 2017 - Taormina, Italy - Donald Trump   at the G7 Taormina summit on the island of Sicily on May 26, 2017 in Taormina, Italy. Leaders of the G7 group of nations, which includes the Unted States, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy, as well as the European Union, are meeting at Taormina from May 26-27. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • April 30, 2017 - Palermo, Italy - Rosario Crocetta, President of Sicily, during the Democratic Party's primary elections in Palermo. (Credit Image: © Antonio Melita/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire)
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  • May 19, 2017 - Lampedusa, Sicily, Italy - LAMPEDUSA, ITALY - MAY 19: Refugees and migrants are seen floating in an overcrowded rubber boat as they wait to be assisted by search and rescue crew members from NGO Sea-Eye on May 18, 2017 in international waters off the coast of Libya. (Credit Image: © Christian Marquardt/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • May 20, 2017 - Lampedusa, Sicily, Italy - LAMPEDUSA, ITALY - MAY 20: Refugees and migrants are seen floating in an overcrowded wooden boat as they wait to be assisted by search and rescue crew members from NGO Sea-Eye on May 20, 2017 in international waters off the coast of Libya. (Credit Image: © Christian Marquardt/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • November  1, 2018 - Sicily - ESA's plans to deploy a network of asteroid-detecting 'Flyeye' telescopes has come one step closer to reality. Last week, the Agency signed an agreement with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) to locate the first-ever Flyeye telescope atop the 1865-metre Monte Mufara mountain in Sicily. The revolutionary Flyeye design is similar to that of a fly's compound eye - it uses multiple cameras and optics, splitting a section of the sky into 16 smaller images, to expand the telescope's field of view. This telescope, nestled within the building in the artist's illustration above, will be the first in a potential network of four telescopes across the globe, that together will have the ability to run nightly surveys of the entire sky, automatically scanning for near-Earth objects, potentially hazardous space rocks that could impact our planet. (Credit Image: © ESA/ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • March 23, 2019 - Rome, Italy - Italy, Rome: People take part in a demonstration to stop global warming and for climate change, against the TurinLyon high-speed railway TAV, against the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) and the MOUS Ground Station in Sicily, in Rome, on March 23, 2019. (Credit Image: © Christian Minelli/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Eddy Gnahore' of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - GABRIELE ROLANDO of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Mato Jajalo of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - GIUSEPPE BELLUSCHI of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Igor Coronado of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - EDDY GNAHORE' of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - ALJAZ STRUNA of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Eddy Gnahore' of Palermo celebrates after scoring the opening goal uring the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - ILIJA NESTOROVSKI of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Head coach Bruno Tedino of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Players of Palermo celebrate after scoring the opening goal uring the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - ANTONINO LA GUMINA of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Head coach Bruno Tedino of Palermo reacts during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - GIUSEPPE BELLUSCHI of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Head coach Bruno Tedino of Palermo reacts during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - ILIJA NESTOROVSKI of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - ILIJA NESTOROVSKI of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - ALJAZ STRUNA of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - GIUSEPPE BELLUSCHI of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Mato Jajalo of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Eddy Gnahore' of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Igor Coronado of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Eddy Gnahore' of Palermo celebrates after scoring the opening goal uring the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy.Y  (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Head coach Bruno Tedino of Palermo reacts during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - ANTONINO LA GUMINA of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - ILIJA NESTOROVSKI of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Mato Jajalo of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • March 10, 2018 - Palermo, Sicily, Italy - Igor Coronado of Palermo during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera on March 10, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • May 26, 2017 - Taormina, Italy - G7 Summit 2017 in Italy..The President of the United States of America Donald Trump during the welcome ceremony and the photo family at Taormina, Italy on May 26, 2017...Leaders of the G7 group of nations, which includes the Unted States, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy, as well as the European Union, are meeting at Taormina from May 26-27. (Credit Image: © Matteo Ciambelli/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • *PREMIUM EXCLUSIVE* Prince Harry, wife Meghan and baby Archie leave the South of France after a three-day family holiday at Sir Elton John’s stunning Pounds 15 million summer ‘palace.’ The Royal couple have come under heavy criticism and been accused of hypocrisy for using private jets three times in the space of eights days for jaunts around Europe while purporting to be ‘eco warriors.’ The flights are estimated to have emitted at least six times more carbon dioxide per person than a scheduled flight. After jetting into Nice Airport on Wednesday, the Duke and Duchess and baby Archie were whisked off in a Mercedes limousine, with police protection, to Sir Elton’s stunning French Riviera villa, Castel Mont-Alban. Considered a summer home by the Rocket Man singer, the sunbeam-yellow hilltop villa boasts commanding views of the Mediterranean from the overlooking tower room. It is high above Nice, with views across the bay and to the Alps and has been used by celebrity pals of Sir Elton, including David and Victoria Beckham. It was originally built in the 1920s as an artists colony. With the help of a team of designers, Elton redesigned the interior to be beautifully and extravagantly decorated in his own flamboyant style, complete with Andy Warhol originals adoring the walls. The villa is so huge it can be seen from across the entire bay. Just three days later, early on Saturday (Aug 17) afternoon, the Royal couple again left Nice Airport on the same private plane, and are believed to have flown back to the UK. Meghan wore a crisp white shirt and matching white trousers as she boarded the 12-seater Cessna aircraft carefully clutching three-month-old Archie Mountbatten-Windsor closely to her chest. Harry, wearing a white polo, jeans, and brown chukka boots, climbed the steps a few moments later, before the plane left for its likely return journey to Farnborough airfield in Hampshire. It was the third time in just over a week that Harry has used a private jet
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  • October 13, 2017 - Palermo, Italy - The Aquarius (SOS Mediterranee) ship arrived at the port of Palermo, Italy on October 13, 2017 carrying 606 migrants. Red Cross workers gave medical care as they disembarked. (Credit Image: © Antonio Melita/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire)
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  • May 26, 2017 - Taormina, Italy - G7 Summit 2017 in Italy..The italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni with the United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May during the welcome ceremony and the photo family at Taormina, Italy on May 26, 2017...Leaders of the G7 group of nations, which includes the Unted States, Canada, Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy, as well as the European Union, are meeting at Taormina from May 26-27. (Credit Image: © Matteo Ciambelli/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)
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  • *PREMIUM EXCLUSIVE* Prince Harry, wife Meghan and baby Archie leave the South of France after a three-day family holiday at Sir Elton John’s stunning Pounds 15 million summer ‘palace.’ The Royal couple have come under heavy criticism and been accused of hypocrisy for using private jets three times in the space of eights days for jaunts around Europe while purporting to be ‘eco warriors.’ The flights are estimated to have emitted at least six times more carbon dioxide per person than a scheduled flight. After jetting into Nice Airport on Wednesday, the Duke and Duchess and baby Archie were whisked off in a Mercedes limousine, with police protection, to Sir Elton’s stunning French Riviera villa, Castel Mont-Alban. Considered a summer home by the Rocket Man singer, the sunbeam-yellow hilltop villa boasts commanding views of the Mediterranean from the overlooking tower room. It is high above Nice, with views across the bay and to the Alps and has been used by celebrity pals of Sir Elton, including David and Victoria Beckham. It was originally built in the 1920s as an artists colony. With the help of a team of designers, Elton redesigned the interior to be beautifully and extravagantly decorated in his own flamboyant style, complete with Andy Warhol originals adoring the walls. The villa is so huge it can be seen from across the entire bay. Just three days later, early on Saturday (Aug 17) afternoon, the Royal couple again left Nice Airport on the same private plane, and are believed to have flown back to the UK. Meghan wore a crisp white shirt and matching white trousers as she boarded the 12-seater Cessna aircraft carefully clutching three-month-old Archie Mountbatten-Windsor closely to her chest. Harry, wearing a white polo, jeans, and brown chukka boots, climbed the steps a few moments later, before the plane left for its likely return journey to Farnborough airfield in Hampshire. It was the third time in just over a week that Harry has used a private jet
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  • November 3, 2018 - Palermo, Sicilia, Italy - Palermo's Stefano Moreo in action during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Cosenza at Stadio Renzo Barbera in Palermo, Italy, November 3, 2018. (Credit Image: © Guglielmo Mangiapane/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire)
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  • June 13, 2018 - Palermo, Sicilia, Italy - Serie B playoff match final between US Citta di Palermo and Frosinone at Stadio Renzo Barbera. (Credit Image: © Guglielmo Mangiapane/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire)
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  • April 14, 2018 - Palermo, Sicilia, Italy - PalermoÕs Aljaz Struna in action during the serie B match between US Citta di Palermo and Cremonese at Stadio Renzo Barbera on April 14, 2018 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Guglielmo Mangiapane/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire)
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  • June 21, 2017 - Palermo, Italy - King Willem-Alexander of The Netherlands and Queen Maxima of The Netherlands visit mayor Leoluca Orlando at Quatto Canti during the second day of a royal state visit to Italy on June 21, 2017 in Palermo, Italy. (Credit Image: © Antonio Melita/Pacific Press via ZUMA Wire)
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  • *PREMIUM EXCLUSIVE* Prince Harry, wife Meghan and baby Archie leave the South of France after a three-day family holiday at Sir Elton John’s stunning Pounds 15 million summer ‘palace.’ The Royal couple have come under heavy criticism and been accused of hypocrisy for using private jets three times in the space of eights days for jaunts around Europe while purporting to be ‘eco warriors.’ The flights are estimated to have emitted at least six times more carbon dioxide per person than a scheduled flight. After jetting into Nice Airport on Wednesday, the Duke and Duchess and baby Archie were whisked off in a Mercedes limousine, with police protection, to Sir Elton’s stunning French Riviera villa, Castel Mont-Alban. Considered a summer home by the Rocket Man singer, the sunbeam-yellow hilltop villa boasts commanding views of the Mediterranean from the overlooking tower room. It is high above Nice, with views across the bay and to the Alps and has been used by celebrity pals of Sir Elton, including David and Victoria Beckham. It was originally built in the 1920s as an artists colony. With the help of a team of designers, Elton redesigned the interior to be beautifully and extravagantly decorated in his own flamboyant style, complete with Andy Warhol originals adoring the walls. The villa is so huge it can be seen from across the entire bay. Just three days later, early on Saturday (Aug 17) afternoon, the Royal couple again left Nice Airport on the same private plane, and are believed to have flown back to the UK. Meghan wore a crisp white shirt and matching white trousers as she boarded the 12-seater Cessna aircraft carefully clutching three-month-old Archie Mountbatten-Windsor closely to her chest. Harry, wearing a white polo, jeans, and brown chukka boots, climbed the steps a few moments later, before the plane left for its likely return journey to Farnborough airfield in Hampshire. It was the third time in just over a week that Harry has used a private jet
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  • June 19, 2014 - Taormina, Italy - US Actress Melanie Griffith attends the 60th Taormina Film Fest on June 19, 2014 in Taormina, Italy. (Credit Image: © Manuel Romano/NurPhoto/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • June 19, 2014 - Taormina, Italy - BEN STILLER and his wife CHRISTINE TAYLOR attends the Baume & Mercier - Promesse Taormina Award ceremony during the 60th Taormina Film Fest. (Credit Image: © Manuel Romano/NurPhoto/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • Italy - May 25, 2018.Sea-Watch migrant rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea..SAR-Case 341: After the so-called Libyan Coast Guard intervened in an ongoing Sea-Watch rescue operation, a large group of panicking refugees jumped from a rubber boat onto a floating rescue device and into the water. The most catastrophic consequences could only be avoided by a retreat of the Libyan vessel and determined action by the Sea-Watch rescue crew. But as the crew found out in a survey among the survivors, still five people went missing in the incident. (Credit Image: © Chris Grodotzki /Seawatch/Ropi via ZUMA Press)
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