Giant ice chunk from glacier sparks forces evacuations

Dozens of people have been evacuated from a valley in northern Italy amid fears that a section of ice the size of a football field could collapse from a Mount Blanc glacier. About 75 people, including 60 tourists, have left the Ferret Valley in the Alpine region of Valle d’Aosta. Stefano Miserocchi, the mayor of Courmayeur, also closed a main road in the valley, according to the websites of the affected villages. At a press conference on Friday, Valerio Segor, the region’s director of natural risk managemen