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Two mortar shells hit a UN peacekeeper base in Hula, Nabatieh Governorate, Lebanon, injuring a peacekeeper.
2023-10-29

Taiwan, Lebanon, Singapore and South Korea report their first cases of monkeypox.
2022-06-24

Italy imposes mandatory COVID-19 testing for all travellers from European Union countries and mandates a five-day quarantine on arrival for those who are unvaccinated due to an increase in the number of COVID-19 cases and the spread of the Omicron variant in Europe.
2021-12-16

The Department of Health and Social Care confirms the UK's death toll from COVID-19 has exceeded 20,000. It joins the United States, Italy, Spain and France as the fifth nation to reach this total.
2020-04-25

Italian President Sergio Mattarella says either fresh elections must be held or a neutral caretaker government installed following the collapse of a third round of talks aiming to form a coalition after March's general election failed to produce a clear winner.
2018-05-7

An Italian rescue helicopter, carrying an injured skier from Gran Sasso d'Italia, crashes amid thick fog, killing six people.
2017-01-24

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

In Nigeria six foreign workers, of which one Italian, one Greek and two Lebanese, are kidnapped in a construction site, one security guard is killed.
2013-02-17

Fitch Ratings lowers France's rating outlook while maintaining a AAA rating and puts the grades of six nations including Spain and Italy on review due to Europe's failure to find a solution to the debt problem.
2011-12-16

The head of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon in southern Lebanon appeals for calm after attacks by villagers.
2010-07-9