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A parish priest and a clerk were honoured Tuesday in Florence by Jerusalem’s Shoah institute for their efforts to help a young Jewish family escape Nazi-Fascist soldiers in 1943.

The first hearing in the new appeals trial of former American student Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, which sees the two being retried on murder charges for the death of British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia in 2007, opens on Monday in Florence, with a verdict expected by Christmas.

At 4 am Cet the parbuckling operation has been successfully completed. The wreck is now upright and resting safely on the specially built artificial sea bed, at a depth of approximately 30 meters. 

Follow developments as the Costa Concordia, thanks to RT RUSSIA watch cameras.

The Concordia wreck removal is an extremely complex technical engineering feat – considered the biggest salvage ever attempted on a ship of its size – with the deployment of the finest international expertise, state-of-the-art technology and unprecedented financial resources.

LPD convenes some of the world’s foremost scholars, policy makers, practitioners, business leaders, public intellectuals and artists whose ideas and work have made a significant cultural or intellectual contribution to global society and the revival of the spirit of humanism for which Florence is known.

Magnitude 4.4 earthquake felt in central and northern Italy today June 30, 2013. Lot of Italians who spent a sunny sunday on the beaches were afraid to live the northern Tuscan beaches after the quake.

An strong earthquake was reported in several regions of northern Italy at around 12:30 local time. The tremor was felt in Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto and Liguria. It was not immediately clear whether the quake had caused casualties or damage.