Sources: BBC
The Mount Etna and Mount Stromboli volcanoes on the Italian island of Sicily erupt, forcing a temporary closure of Catania–Fontanarossa Airport. 2024-07-5
One person is killed and nine others injured by a fire in a high-rise building in Rome, Italy. 2023-06-2
Germany, Italy, France, and Spain suspend the use of the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine following reports of blood clots. 2021-03-15
An explosion at a fireworks factory in the town of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto, Sicily, Italy, kills five people and injures two others. 2019-11-21
Three employees of infrastructure firm Atlantia are arrested by Italian police on suspicion of offences connected to falsification of safety documentations for motorway bridges. The probe follows the disaster which killed 43 in August 2018. 2019-09-13
Italy and Malta refuse entry to a German vessel carrying 629 migrants rescued off the coast of Libya. 2018-06-10
23 people are killed and 50 others are injured after two trains collide head-on near Andria in the province of Apulia, in southern Italy. 2016-07-12
Giorgio Orsoni, the mayor of Venice, Italy, resigns over corruption allegations related to the MOSE Project. 2014-06-13
Italian health minister Ferruccio Fazio apologises while visiting a woman subjected to violent confrontation between two doctors as her baby was on the verge of being born at a hospital in Messina, Sicily. 2010-08-30
Italy fines Ryanair €3 million for failing to help passengers after cancelling their flights during the Icelandic volcanic crisis as the cloud threatens to wreak more havoc. 2010-05-15