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The city of Venice, Italy, introduces an entry fee for day-trippers, trying to limit the overcrowds of tourists.
2024-04-25

UNESCO recommends the inclusion of Venice, Italy, a World Heritage Site, on its List of World Heritage in Danger due to overtourism and flooding.
2023-07-31

One person is killed and nine others injured by a fire in a high-rise building in Rome, Italy.
2023-06-2

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

23 people are killed and 50 others are injured after two trains collide head-on near Andria in the province of Apulia, in southern Italy.
2016-07-12

The number of migrants arriving in Italy from Africa in 2015 passes 50,000 with over 5,000 arriving in the past few days.
2015-06-7

Giorgio Orsoni, the mayor of Venice, Italy, resigns over corruption allegations related to the MOSE Project.
2014-06-13

A Ghanaian national goes on a spree attack with a pickaxe in Milan, Italy killing a passerby and wounding four others in an apparently random attack.
2013-05-11

Egan-Jones Ratings Company downgrades Italy to CCC+ from B+, saying the country has a one-year default probability of 22%.
2012-07-25

Members of the multi-state coalition conducting the military campaign in Libya hold talks in Rome, Italy, and agree to set up a new fund to aid Libyan rebels, with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promising to use frozen assets of Muammar Gaddafi's regime.
2011-05-5