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Two people are killed and 11 injured after an explosion at a Toyota Material Handling factory in Bologna, Italy.
2024-10-23

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 ends its two-year state of emergency and begins to gradually lift attendance limits for outdoor and indoor sports venues, along with a requirement that anyone over the age of 50 should be vaccinated to enter their place of work.
2022-04-1

Italy reports its first case of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in a person who travelled from Mozambique.
2021-11-27

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

Rai News, "Domani", and "The Guardian" jointly allege Italian prosecutors wiretapped thousands of confidential conversations between human rights lawyers and clients. The claims relate to prosecutions against charity officials for running migrant rescue boats.
2021-04-9

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

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

British World War II computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing, who had been chemically castrated in 1952 following his conviction for homosexuality, is given a posthumous royal pardon.
2013-12-23

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