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One person is killed and fifteen others are rescued when the United Kingdom-flagged superyacht "Bayesian" sinks near Palermo, Italy, due to a waterspout. Six others remain missing, including British entrepreneur Mike Lynch.
2024-08-19

Five workers are killed and another is critically injured while carrying out maintenance work on a wastewater lifting tank in Palermo, Italy.
2024-05-6

Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, one of the most wanted men in Italy and Europe, is arrested in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, after 30 years on the run.
2023-01-16

The trial of Matteo Salvini opens in Palermo, Italy. Salvini is accused of kidnapping and abuse of office when he ordered the detaining of 147 migrants at sea in August 2019, when he was serving as minister of the interior. Salvini said that the decision was agreed upon with the government, including then-prime minister Giuseppe Conte.
2021-10-23

Millionaire Italian yacht businessman Giulio Lolli is convicted of terrorism in Libya and sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Tripoli. Lolli is wanted for fraud in Italy, and his Italian lawyer says the Libyan legal case appears to be based on Lolli using a yacht to evacuate fighters from Tripoli.
2019-09-25

An Italian judge says a mafia clan has been plotting the murder of Spia.it journalist Paolo Borrometi. Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni voices his support to the journalist.
2018-04-10

Acting on requests from neighboring Italy, Swiss authorities arrest 15 people sought as suspected members of the 'Ndrangheta organized crime syndicate, a Mafia-type organization centered in Calabria, Italy.
2016-03-8

Italy says that it will use the Italian Army against the mafia who are accused of dumping toxic waste in Naples.
2014-01-15

In Italy, Laura Boldrini, member of the left-wing party Left Ecology Freedom, is elected President of the Chamber of Deputies. Pietro Grasso, a former anti-mafia magistrate and member of the centre-left Democratic Party, is elected President of the Senate. ([http:--www.repubblica.it-politica-2013-03-16-news-liveblogging_camera_senato_ii_giorno-54645681- "La Repubblica"])
2013-03-16

Head of Naples police intervention brigade Vittorio Pisani is investigated in Italy after coming under suspicion of leaking information to the mafia.
2011-06-30