Sources: Herald Sun
At least 23 migrants are missing after boarding a boat travelling from Tunisia to Italy. 2024-05-18
The European Union's emergency response coordination centre issues red alerts due to extreme heat in Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, most of Italy, and parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Spain. 2023-07-18
Activists in Italy say that they have gathered enough signatures in order to trigger a referendum on liberalising the use of cannabis. 2021-09-18
Italy reports a new record of 39,811 new confirmed cases in the last 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total to 902,490 cases. Lombardy remained the hardest hit region, reporting 11,489 new cases. 2020-11-7
Italy registers a record 24,991 new infections over the past 24 hours, according to health ministry data, bringing the nationwide total of cases to 589,766. 2020-10-28
A landslide in Isola di Capo Rizzuto of Calabria, Italy, kills ten construction workers while they repair a sewer. 2018-10-28
National counter-terror prosecutor Federico Cafiero de Raho states that an estimated 50 people have returned to Italy after fighting with the Islamic State. 2018-03-30
The number of migrants arriving in Italy from Africa in 2015 passes 50,000 with over 5,000 arriving in the past few days. 2015-06-7
Hundreds of people are feared dead after a boat carrying people from Libya to Italy capsizes in the Mediterranean Sea. Twenty-eight people have been rescued. 2015-04-18
Eurozone leaders hold an emergency meeting on assistance to Spain and Italy. 2012-06-28