Sources: AFP via France 24
Italian police arrest around 150 people across Sicily in the biggest anti-Mafia raid since 1984. 2025-02-11
Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, one of the most wanted men in Italy and Europe, is arrested in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, after 30 years on the run. 2023-01-16
Italian police seize the yacht of Russian oligarch Alexei Mordashov at the port of Imperia. Another yacht owned by Putin associate Gennady Timchenko is blocked at the port and is expected to be seized shortly. Both men have been sanctioned by the European Union. 2022-03-4
Two people are killed and another is missing as floods triggered by a powerful storm is affecting Catania, Sicily, Italy. Roads have been completely submerged in parts of the region. 2021-10-26
Two people are killed and nine others are injured after a powerful whirlwind hits Pantelleria, Sicily, Italy. 2021-09-10
Thousands of firefighters and water-bombing aircraft are deployed as wildfires continue to spread across Italy amid an unprecedented heat wave caused by a heat dome event over southeast Europe. Hundreds of people are evacuated on Sardinia and Sicily, with Sardinian President Christian Solinas describing the situation as an "unprecedented disaster." 2021-08-5
Mount Etna erupts, causing the closure of Catania–Fontanarossa Airport in Sicily, Italy. 2018-12-24
Italy says that it will use the Italian Army against the mafia who are accused of dumping toxic waste in Naples. 2014-01-15
Italian police search more than thirty Italian football clubs including SS Lazio and Juventus FC searching for evidence of criminal conspiracy, international tax evasion, money laundering and invoice falsification. 2013-06-25
A woman is diagnosed with Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease ("human mad cow disease") in Milan then hospitalised in Livorno, only the second case in Italy's history and the first since Sicily 2002. 2010-07-22