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In tennis, Jannik Sinner defeats Taylor Fritz in the final of the US Open Men's singles tournament to win his first US Open title ever and his second Grand Slam title overall. Sinner is also the first Italian man to ever win the US Open.
2024-09-8

Italy bans fur farming and orders all remaining mink farms to shut down by June 2022, while a ban on breeding animals for their fur becomes effective immediately.
2021-12-22

The Italian Ministry of Health announces that beginning from August 31, fully vaccinated British travellers will be able to scrap the five-day self-quarantine if they show a proof of negative PCR and Antigen test in the previous 48 hours and must have been at least 14 days after receiving a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
2021-08-28

Italy begins to introduce the ""Green Pass"" where people over the age of 12 must present proof of vaccination of at least one dose, a negative test from the previous 48 hours, or having recovered from COVID-19 in order to enter gyms, theatres and bars, dine in at restaurants, and participate in some leisure activities.
2021-08-6

At least three migrants die when their boat catches fire off the coast of Crotone, Calabria, Italy. Another five migrants are injured as well as two police officers who tried to help them.
2020-08-30

Slovenia confirms its first case of COVID-19. The patient had recently travelled home from Morocco, passing through Italy on the way, and is now in isolation at the Ljubljana University Medical Centre.
2020-03-4

Italian police seize 20 tonnes of hashish in a Panama-flagged, Montenegrin-crewed "research and survey" vessel's fuel tanks.
2018-08-9

The captain of MV "Lifeline", a German migrant rescue ship that docked in Malta last week with 130 rescued migrants after Italy refused access, makes an initial court appearance in Valletta. He is charged with operating his ship illegally.
2018-07-2

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

A ship carrying 300 African migrants headed for Malta runs aground near Lampedusa in Italy with many on board having to be rescued from the sea.
2011-05-8