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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

Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova is sentenced to eight and a half years in prison in absentia for interrupting a news broadcast with anti-war slogans.
2023-10-4

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

German intelligence agency Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution formally places far-right oppositional party Alternative for Germany under surveillance, accusing it of aiming to subvert the constitution. It is the first time that a major political party has been placed under surveillance since the end of World War II.
2021-03-3

Five people die of carbon monoxide poisoning at a nursing home in Lanuvio, Lazio, Italy. Seven other people are hospitalized in critical condition.
2021-01-16

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 captain of MV "Lifeline", a German migrant rescue ship that docked in Malta last week with 130 rescued migrants after Italy refused access, makes an initial court appearance in Valletta. He is charged with operating his ship illegally.
2018-07-2

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

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

Following an attack on the British embassy in Tripoli, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague says that Britain will expel the Libyan ambassador to the UK; smoke is also seen rising from the Italian embassy in Libya.
2011-05-1