Sources: BBC
The Iranian government releases Italian journalist Cecilia Sala from prison, with Sala arriving back in Rome later that day. 2025-01-8
Italian Health Minister Roberto Speranza signs a decree that will remove quarantine rules for travelers from the European Union, the Schengen area, the United Kingdom, and Israel, as long as they have tested negative for COVID-19. The decree will take effect on May 16. 2021-05-14
Italy reports 11,705 new infections in the past 24 hours, the highest number in a single day yet since the outbreak started in February. 2020-10-18
A person is dead and sixteen others tested positive during a legionella outbreak in Busto Arsizio, Italy. 2020-09-4
One tourist is killed and several injured when Mt. Stromboli in Italy erupts. 2019-07-3
A judge in Ragusa, Sicily, Italy, orders the release of a Proactiva Open Arms migrant search and rescue ship detained in Pozzallo since arriving there on March 18 carrying over 200 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean Sea. Catania prosecutors requested the Spanish ship's detention alleging involvement in illegal immigration after Proactiva refused to hand the migrants over to Libya. 2018-04-16
Thirteen are killed and 34 others injured after a bus carrying Erasmus exchange students returning from the renowned Falles fireworks festival in Valencia, crashes near Freginals, Spain. The regional government of Catalonia said in a statement that, "... according to the latest data, the ill-fated bus had students from Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Italy, Peru, Bulgaria, Poland, Ireland, Japan, Ukraine, Holland, Belgium, France, Palestine, Turkey, (and) Greece." 2016-03-20
Technocrat Mario Monti resigns as Prime Minister of Italy after the parliamentary passing of Italy's latest austerity budget. 2012-12-21
Documents are released outlining pressure the U.S. used in an attempt to stop Italy from indicting the CIA agents who kidnapped Abu Omar in Milan, then flew him to Egypt to be tortured. The documents show Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi to be on the American side and recorded him "vent[ing] his rage at his own country's judicial system." 2010-12-22
The Italian Embassy in Iran is attacked by protesters unhappy with Italy's decision to scale back economic dealings and push for tighter sanctions and protests are also held outside French and Dutch embassies. 2010-02-9