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A small town in southern Italy is offering 25,000 euros to anyone who wants to move there
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Steph Deschamps / November 22, 2022
You want to go far away, where the weather is nice and warm, at a reasonable price? It’s now a little more feasible thanks to this marketing campaign carried out by the town of Presicce, in Italy. This small seaside town is located in Puglia, in the extreme south of the heel, more commonly called Salento by the locals.
According to CNN, the town of Presicce is trying to attract visitors to try to welcome diversity and new faces. The “sindaco,” (understand burgomaster) Alfredo Palese said, “There are many empty houses in the historic center built before 1991 that we would like to see revived with new residents.”
The average cost of these houses is 25,000 euros. To this amount, we have to add the costs related to the renovation works. In order to attract new buyers, Presicce is ready to invest around 25,000 euros for new buyers as well.
The city council believes that the village has “beautiful architecture and art”, but it is “slowly emptying”. Indeed, many Italians are migrating north in search of work.
Palese continues: “We are going to offer up to 25,000 euros to people who want to move here and buy one of these abandoned houses. So the funding would be split in two: it will be used partly to buy an old house and partly to give it a makeover, if necessary.”
There’s not much more information at this time, as the deal is still being finalized, but more information is likely to be released on the city’s website.
To qualify, you’ll have to agree to become a full-time resident and buy one of the properties built before 1991.
According to CNN, the pretty town can afford to pay this money to new residents after it merges with a neighboring town in 2019, becoming Presicce-Acquarica.
At this time, we don’t know how many people Presicce is willing to pay to move there.
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Sylvie Claire / September 23, 2023
At least 25 people, including two children, died when a bus crashed into a ravine in the Andean region of Huancavelica, in southern Peru, the authorities announced in a revised death toll on Monday evening.
An initial police report put the death toll at 20, with a further 35 injured. A statement from the Ministry of Health later that morning put the death toll at 24. Finally, at the end of the day on Monday, the death toll stood at “25 dead and 34 wounded”, according to the Ministry of Defense.
The accident occurred on Sunday night, when the bus carrying over 50 passengers from Huanta in Ayacucho to Huancayo in the Junin region ran off the road.
Images show the damaged bus lying on its side near a river below the ravine, debris and personal belongings strewn all around.
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte expressed her “condolences to the families” from New York, where she will be attending the 78th General Assembly of the United Nations. The Peruvian Episcopal Conference, for its part, urged the government to “carry out a serious investigation” to prevent such accidents from happening again.
On August 13, another accident in the same region left 13 people dead and 5 seriously injured.
Road accidents are frequent in Peru, mainly due to speeding and poor road maintenance, especially in mountainous areas.
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Sylvie Claire / September 17, 2023
In Japan, the number of people aged 100 has reached a record level: the world’s third-largest economy now has 92,139 people aged 100 or over. That’s 1,613 more than a year ago, reported the Ministry of Health in Tokyo on Friday.
For over half a century, the number of people aged 100 has been rising every year. Due to a low birth rate and almost non-existent immigration, no other industrial state is aging as fast as this East Asian country.
Japan’s population is also shrinking at a record pace. Last year, the number of Japanese fell by 801,000, the biggest drop since comparable data have been recorded. There are now 122.4 million.
When the Japanese Ministry of Health began compiling statistics in 1963, there were 153 centenarians. Twenty-five years later, there were over 10,000. According to the latest figures, around 88% of centenarians are women. Japan has the longest life expectancy in the world. Life expectancy for women is around 87 years, and 81 for men.
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Steph Deschamps / September 17, 2023
The death toll from the earthquake in Morocco has risen to 2,946, the Moroccan Ministry of the Interior announced on Wednesday evening. A further 5,674 people were injured.
The previous death toll was 2,901. The death toll is expected to rise further. Hopes of finding survivors are now very slim. Rescue workers have not yet been able to reach all the villages affected in the Atlas Mountains.
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck the country on Friday night. The epicenter was located some 80 kilometers southwest of Marrakech. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over 300,000 people in and around Marrakech were affected by the disaster.
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