The best-selling writer said that the Campanian National Park fires were caused by those who either wanted to burn waste in illegal landfill sites, or to halt construction work. It works well.”. Thousands of asylum seekers on the island of Lesbos are now homeless, Pope Francis takes off his face mask as he arrives by car to hold a limited public audience at the San Damaso courtyard in The Vatican, A home is engulfed in flames during the "Creek Fire" in the Tollhouse area of California, A couple take photos along a sea wall of the waves brought by Typhoon Haishen in the eastern port city of Sokcho, Novak Djokovic and a tournament official tends to a linesperson who was struck with a ball by Djokovic during his match against Pablo Carreno Busta at the US Open, Protesters confront police at the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia, during an anti-lockdown rally, A woman looks on from a rooftop as rescue workers dig through the rubble of a damaged building in Beirut. In 1942 the "Santa Barbara Battalion" was created after the Italians' retreat from Russia, and the defeat in the Battle of El Alamein. These were dark years for Campania indeed, as the Italian media ran articles about the environmental mess. It’s here in the countryside of Campania where the seriousness of Italy’s waste problem is stunning and horribly plain to see. [55][56][57], A chain reaction followed, in which several countries including Japan, China, Russia and Germany took various measures ranging from the mere raising of the attention threshold to the suspension of imports. Police call discovery biggest seizure of drug ever worldwide. [50] High levels of mortality and abnormal foetuses were also recorded in farms in Acerra linked to elevated levels of dioxin. Mr Saviano has written several books, including international bestsellers Gomorrah and ZeroZeroZero. In the provinces of Salerno and Benevento, no control indicated dioxins positivity. The ladders were returned to the Commands and the men who had been part of the Battalion were authorized to wear on the uniform the special badge of the "Santa Barbara".[1]. As it turned out, ex-camorra informants were lying about or exaggerating the extent of the toxic burial, he said in a telephone interview. About a mile away amid farmers’ fields, Tosti pointed out another spot where trash was supposed to be temporarily stored during the “trash crisis” of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Staff becomes operative after six months of physical and professional training in Rome. (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP) (Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP via Getty Images), An activist of the Extinction Rebellion movement takes part in a protest in front of the German Ministry for Food and Agriculture in Berlin, A demonstrator holds an Indonesian flag as he gestures in front of police officers during a protest against the government's proposed labour reforms in a controversial "jobs creation" bill in Jakarta, A man walks past a street art mural in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, People protesting the results of a parliamentary vote gather by a bonfire in front of the seized main government building, known as the White House, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, US President Trump waves from the back of a car in a motorcade outside of Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, Damage in Roquebilliere, southeastern France, after heavy rains and flooding hit the Alpes-Maritimes area, Restaurant owners clang spoons and pots at a demonstration against restaurant and bar closures in Marseille, southern France.