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The Italian government signs a decree that will ban people who are not vaccinated or who have not recovered from COVID-19 from entering indoor venues (not including workplaces) from December 6 until January 15 and will also extend the vaccine mandate to teachers, police, and the military beginning on December 15. It also imposes the use of the "green pass" to all types of public transport, including for people with negative COVID-19 tests.
2021-11-24

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

Italy raises the age limit for Oxford–AstraZeneca's vaccine to 65 years old from previously 55.
2021-02-23

A train crash in Livraga, Lombardy, Italy, kills 2 people and injures all the other 31 on board.
2020-02-6

U.S. President Donald Trump hosts Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte at the White House.
2018-07-30

In the latest in a series of raids, Italian authorities detain 19-year-old Ilyass Hadouz in Fossano on suspicion of pro-ISIL extremism.
2018-03-30

Italian police arrest five Tunisians suspected of links to Anis Amri, perpetrator of the December 2016 terror attack in Germany.
2018-03-29

At the Indigenous Peoples Forum in Rome, Italy, Pope Francis says that developmental needs have to be reconciled with the protection of the particular characteristics of indigenous peoples and their territories. This is taken by some as a reference to the Standing Rock Sioux and other groups opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline.
2017-02-15

France and Italy are to send military officers to Libya to train rebels.
2011-04-20

Odeon Cinemas in Ireland, Italy and the UK confirm their intention to boycott Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" in a dispute with Disney.
2010-02-22