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The "Guardia di Finanza" frees 33 Indian farm workers from exploitative conditions in Verona, Veneto, Italy, and seizes nearly €500,000 (US$545,000) from two Indian individuals accused of charging workers €17,000 ($18,500) each for permits.
2024-07-13

Italy reports a record for the third consecutive day of 54,762 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 5.62 million.
2021-12-25

A symbolic re-trial for medieval Italian writer Dante Alighieri, who was sentenced to exile "in absentia" in 1302, is held virtually in Florence.
2021-05-21

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan calls on all Turks and the Muslim world to boycott France over French President Emmanuel Macron's crackdown on radical Islam in French society. Erdoğan says Muslims in France are now "subjected to a lynch campaign similar to that against Jews in Europe before World War II". The leaders of Germany, Italy and the Netherlands condemn Erdoğan's comments and declare their support for France.
2020-10-26

The number of new cases in Italy reaches 10,000 for the first time, when the country reports 10,010 new infections in the past 24 hours.
2020-10-16

Carola Rackete, the captain of a migrant rescue ship, is arrested in Italy for docking without authorization after Italy closed its ports to rescue organizations.
2019-06-29

Maersk Line reveals one of their container ships yesterday responded to a distress call from a migrant boat off the Italian coast, rescuing 113 people.
2018-06-23

A bus carrying Hungarian students crashes near Verona in northern Italy with at least 18 people dead and 50 injured.
2017-01-20

A police officer is wounded after a grenade attack in Benghazi, as Italy announces the temporary withdrawal of the country's consulate in the city after an unsuccessful attack against the consul two days earlier.
2013-01-14

German prosecutors reopen hundreds of investigations into Nazi concentration camp guards, following the successful prosecution of retired U.S. autoworker John Demjanjuk for his role at the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland during World War II.
2011-10-5