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In Italy, the Carabinieri Art Squad seizes more than 2,100 forged artworks worth more than €200 million (US$215 million) that were intended to be sold at auction houses across Europe and also uncovers two art forgery workshops in Tuscany and Venice.
2024-11-11

Three people are killed and dozens are evacuated during a fire at a hospital in Tivoli, Lazio, Italy.
2023-12-8

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

Italy removes their Green Pass for all indoor places except hospitals and nursing homes and lifts their COVID-19 vaccination and mask mandate for museums, bars, hotels, and restaurants. However, masks will still be required for public transport until June 15.
2022-05-1

Italy reports 103 deaths of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, making it the deadliest toll since June 8.
2021-12-1

Italy imposes a compulsory nationwide outdoor mask mandate, with fines ranging from 400 to 1,000 euros (AS$659 to AS$1,650; US$463 to US$1,163) for violators in a bid to curb the second wave of COVID-19. This decree passes at the same time the country reports 3,678 cases in the last 24 hours, the highest figure since the peak of the outbreak in April. Exceptions include outdoor sporting activities, children under six years of age, and people with health conditions that preclude wearing masks.
2020-10-7

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

Thirteen refugees drown off the Italian coast swimming to shore from their leaky vessel.
2013-09-30

The first direct photograph of DNA, by Enzo Di Fabrizio, a physics professor at Magna Graecia University in Catanzaro, Italy, is taken. He used an electron microscope (not the usual X-ray crystallography) and a nanoscopic landscape of extremely water-repellant silicon pillars (the water evaporated quickly and left behind the DNA).
2012-11-30

At least 200 African migrants are missing after a boat capsizes off Italy. 20 bodies recovered.
2011-04-6