Garbage crisis triggers clashes in Naples
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NAPLES, Italy  - Angry Neapolitans blocked railway tracks, hurled stones at police and overturned vehicles on Saturday to protest against plans to reopen a waste dump to deal with the city's long-running refuse crisis.
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By Blair Goldstein, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 11--Twice a month for almost two years, Wayne Morton has met with his neighbors to organize against a dump.
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The Italian army battles against huge piles of rubbish clogging the streets of Naples.
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Bulgarian authorities fear an outbreak of disease from tonnes of waste garbage piled up in Sofia after protestors for the seventh day blocked access to the capital's main waste disposal site.
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By Bernard Harris  Mayor asks for patience, but says city will not back away from single-hauler system that begins in October.  It was too late for the crowd that turned out in opposition to the city's new trash plan on Monday night.
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After enraging the French president and his bride by using them in an advertisement, budget airline Ryanair is promoting its flights in the Italian press as a way of escaping piles of trash that are choking the city of Naples.
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Premier Romano Prodi announced emergency measures Tuesday to deal with Naples' garbage crisis, and pledged to curb the control that organized crime has over trash collection.
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(AGI) - Naples, Italy, Dec. 8 - A fire attack took place last night in an apartment on Via Monte Rosa, at the border between the quarters of Secondigliano and Scampia on the northern suburb of Naples where a bloody camorra feud is under way.
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A cargo boat laden with 500 tons of garbage from Naples docked at the island of Sardinia on Thursday as the government worked to undo a weeks-long trash emergency that left heaps of waste piled up on the streets of Naples.
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Italy's government is to hold an emergency meeting to find a solution to the rubbish crisis in Naples.
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BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. - When residents smelled a foul odor coming from a nearby home, they thought it was a meth lab and called firefighters. But firefighters entered the house only to find it full of garbage, authorities said.
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Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi on Tuesday urged residents of the southern city Naples to help the government stop a turf war between gangs that has claimed124 lives in the past twelve months.
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Italian anti-Mafia magistrates ordered the arrest of 65 people as part of a massive police swoop in Naples in a bid to staunch the bloodletting in a turf war which has killed more than 120 people, Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu revealed.
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Bodies, dirty water spreading disease. Medical supplies have started to run out and panicked residents are fighting for provisions.
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By Jennifer Lebovich, The Miami Herald  Dec. 14--To Hallandale Beach officials, it's a "transfer station," but to residents of the city's northwest section, it's a garbage dump, and they don't want it in their area.
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The mayor of Naples appealed to angry residents Saturday to stay calm in the city's two-week-old garbage crisis, and the prime minister called it an emergency that must to be tackled quickly.
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By JOHN P. KELLY  City Councilor Kevin Coughlin's proposal to make recycling mandatory in Quincy didn't spark the sort of discussion on garbage he'd hoped for - just a little trash talk. "This is a draconian measure," said Ward 2 City Councilor Daniel Raymondi.