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At least ten people are killed after two boats carrying migrants shipwreck off the southern coast of Italy, with 64 additional people reported missing.
2024-06-17

Four people are killed and three others are injured in a mass shooting at a bar in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
2022-12-11

Italy reports a record for the third consecutive day of 219,441 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 6.97 million.
2022-01-6

Despite the number of new cases caused by the Omicron variant reaching a record 98,030 cases, Italy completely lifts the mandatory quarantine for those who received COVID-19 vaccine booster shot and reduces it to five days for the vaccinated people whose most recent dose was more than 120 days before exposure.
2021-12-29

Four people are dead and two others are injured in Cosenza, Calabria, Italy, after accidentally falling into a vat of grape must.
2021-10-2

Italy expands the mandatory usage of "Green Pass" health certificates to some forms of public transport, including long-distance trains, domestic flights and ferries. The pass is now also mandatory for school and university staff, as well as university students.
2021-09-1

Police arrest five people in Santa Ana de Yusguare, Honduras, after they were identified as part of the mob of over 600 people who lynched and killed an Italian man accused of murdering a homeless elderly man.
2021-07-10

Italian intellectuals Corrado Augias and Giovanna Melandri hand back their medals of the Legion of Honour, France's highest order of merit, to France. They protest the news that President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion at the same time that prosecutors in Rome indicted four top security officials of the Sisi regime over the 2016 abduction and torture to death of Giulio Regeni, an Italian doctoral student, in Cairo.
2020-12-14

Slovenia confirms its first case of COVID-19. The patient had recently travelled home from Morocco, passing through Italy on the way, and is now in isolation at the Ljubljana University Medical Centre.
2020-03-4

Dozens of migrants who were refused entry to France go on hunger strike at the border crossing in the Italian town of Ventimiglia.
2015-06-13