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Three Italian cross-country skiers are killed and two are injured in an avalanche near the Great St Bernard Pass in the Swiss Alps.
2015-02-21

At the 65th Berlin International Film Festival, the film "Taxi" by Iranian director Jafar Panahi wins the Golden Bear.
2015-02-14

Efforts to refloat the Italian cruise ship "Costa Concordia" begin off the coast of Italy two and a half years after it sank.
2014-07-14

Two Italian priests and a Canadian nun have been kidnapped by gunmen in Cameroon.
2014-04-5

Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano almost drowns while undertaking a spacewalk on the International Space Station.
2013-07-16

Indian Maoists release Italian hostage Paolo Bosusco after holding him for nearly a month.
2012-04-12

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's "Caesar Must Die" wins the Golden Bear at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival.
2012-02-19

Barack Obama, the President of the United States, announces the sale of the US government's stake in Chrysler to Italian automaker Fiat at a visit to a plant at Toledo, Ohio.
2011-06-3

Hamas finds the dead body of kidnapped Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni in Gaza City.
2011-04-15

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi wins three awards, including the Golden Bear, for his film "Nader and Simin, A Separation" as the 61st Berlin International Film Festival ends. There are other winners from Argentina, Albania, Germany and Hungary.
2011-02-19