Italy Cruise

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  6,000 Passengers Stuck On Italian Cruise Ship Amid Virus Scare Allowed To Leave

  Thousands of stranded tourists were free to disembark from a cruise ship at an Italian port after authorities said two Chinese passengers feared to have the coronavirus tested negative Thursday.

• Italy Cruise Ship Wreck Set to Rise From Waves

  The refloating of Italy's ill-fated Costa Concordia cruise ship is set to begin on Monday, with a high-risk salvage operation to raise the rusting hulk ahead of its final journey to the shipyard where it was built.

• A Tower of Babel rises around Italy cruise ship wreck

  Salvage workers from around the world have descended on this tiny Mediterranean island in their hundreds to refloat the Costa Concordia in the biggest removal of its kind ever attempted.

• Italian cruise wreck: 5 more bodies found

  Search crews found five more bodies in the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which struck a reef off an Italian island in January, officials said on Thursday. The discovery raises the number of bodies found to 30. Two people remain missing and are presumed dead.

• Divers find 8 more bodies in Italy luxury cruise wreckage

  Divers searching the capsized Costa Concordia cruise ship off a Tuscan island found eight bodies on Wednesday on one of the passenger decks, including that of a missing 5-year-old Italian girl, authorities said. Italy's national civil protection agency, which is monitoring the operation off a Tuscan island, said three of the bodies were recovered a...

• Italy cruise tragedy: Woman sues Costa Concordia over miscarriage, says report

  An Italian woman has reportedly sued the owner of Costa Concordia luxury liner for a million euros in damages and compensation over her miscarriage following the cruise ship disaster last month.

• Italian shipwreck: The treasure now under the sea

  In the chaotic evacuation of the Costa Concordia, passengers and crew abandoned almost everything on board the cruise ship: jewels, cash, champagne, antiques, 19th-century Bohemian crystal glassware and thousands of art objects, including 300-year-old woodblock prints by a Japanese master.

• Costa Concordia passengers sue Carnival

  Six passengers of the Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia, which ran aground off the coast of Italy two weeks ago, are suing Carnival Cruise Lines, demanding compensation totaling US $460 million.

• Stricken ship captain blames company pressure: reports

  The captain of the stricken Costa Concordia liner told a friend a day after the disaster that a manager from the cruise company pressured him to sail too close to shore, the Italian media has reported.

• 2 more bodies found, fuel removal to begin on ship

  Nudged gently by the tides off Tuscany, the capsized Costa Concordia has been deemed stable enough on its rocky perch for salvagers to begin pumping fuel oil from its giant tanks as early as Tuesday.

• Italian divers find 12th body as search of cruise ship resumes

  The body of a woman wearing a life vest was recovered by Italian coast guard divers on Saturday from a narrow underwater corridor of the capsized cruise ship Costa Concordia, raising the death toll to 12 in the week-old accident that has sent some light fuel spilling into the Mediterranean off Tuscany.

• 25 Indians head home after luxury cruise disaster

  The Indian Embassy in Italy threw some valuable light on the status of the 201 Indian crew members who were on board the Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia, when it capsized on Friday night. First Secretary at the Embassy Vishwesh Negi revealed that 25 of them were likely to board Air Italia flights to Dubai, from where they would be taking conne...

• "I left everything in the hands of the Almighty, and just jumped": Mumbai survivor

  "Standing at the edge of the deck, I left everything in the hands of the Almighty, and just jumped," said Jason D'Silva. And the Almighty must have been listening, as it was this very leap of faith -- off the capsizing Italian cruise liner Costa Concordia and onto a teetering lifeboat tossing in the choppy waters -- that miraculously saved the crew...

• I am not going back: Captain of Italian ship told port official

  In the hours after cruise liner Costa Concordia struck rocks off Italy, a port official urged Captain Francesco Schettino, who had abandoned ship, to return on board and help evacuation efforts.

• Timeline of Italian cruise ship disaster

  Here is a timeline of the disaster, based on official statements and eyewitness accounts.