After months of deadlock, the Italian government on Monday announced a temporary state takeover of a troubled steel mill majority-owned by steel giant ArcelorMittal.ArcelorMittal owns a 62 percent stake in the steel mill and the Italian state the remaining 38 percent.
A defendant in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot who was arrested near the Washington residence of former President Barack Obama has been indicted on five new felony charges, officials announced Thursday.
Doctor Maria Grazia Serra's patients have been "breathing, eating and drinking" toxins from Taranto's steelworks for decades, but a dispute over the vast Italian plant could finally see its ecological conversion.She is one of 150 doctors who last month appealed to the government not to waste the opportunity to finally turn the plant around.