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The Italian Coast Guard retrieves the bodies of six migrants, rescues 10 people, while 40 others remain missing after a dinghy carrying 56 people capsizes off the coast of Lampedusa, Italy, after departing from Sfax, Tunisia.
2025-03-19

President of the European Parliament David Sassoli dies in Aviano, Italy.
2022-01-11

Italy reports a record 78,313 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours.
2021-12-28

Italian athlete Ambra Sabatini sets a new world record for women's 100 metres T63 of 14.11 seconds.
2021-09-4

The last Italian troops leave Afghanistan after handing over their base in Herat to Afghan security forces, thereby ending Italy's involvement in the war.
2021-06-29

Italian intellectuals Corrado Augias and Giovanna Melandri hand back their medals of the Legion of Honour, France's highest order of merit, to France. They protest the news that President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion at the same time that prosecutors in Rome indicted four top security officials of the Sisi regime over the 2016 abduction and torture to death of Giulio Regeni, an Italian doctoral student, in Cairo.
2020-12-14

Italian police arrest a mix of mafia gangsters, corrupt politicians, and one former terrorist in a corruption scandal exploiting migrants and gipsies.
2014-12-3

The Standard & Poor's credit rating agency lowers its long-term credit ratings on the eurozone countries of Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, and Spain by two notches each and Austria, France, Malta, Slovakia, and Slovenia by one notch each.
2012-01-13

Euro zone leaders secure a €109 billion bailout for Greece with the country going into default for a short period, but with increased powers for the main European rescue fund to assist countries that have not been bailed out, such as Spain and Italy.
2011-07-21

France and Italy are to send military officers to Libya to train rebels.
2011-04-20