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Israel's government agrees to ban all travel to Germany, Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Morocco, Portugal, Canada, Switzerland, Turkey, and the U.S. without special permission beginning on December 22 due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
2021-12-20

Tunisia receives 1.5 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from Italy.
2021-08-1

Italy suspends the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in people under the age of 60 nationwide following the death of an 18-year-old girl yesterday and reports of other young people who have been hospitalized in critical condition after receiving their first dose of the vaccine. The Moderna and Pfizer vaccines will be used for the vaccination of people under the age of 60, including for people who already received a first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
2021-06-11

Two ships, MV "Lifeline" and MV "Alexander Mærsk", carrying hundreds of rescued migrants, await a port to disembark. The commercial Maersk ship rescued migrants following a request from Italian authorities but Italy and Malta have refused permission to dock.
2018-06-24

A large explosion, which triggers other explosions and a fire (which threatens a nearby forest) at a fireworks factory in southeastern Italy (Modugno, Metropolitan City of Bari, Apulia Region) kills 7 people and injures several more, some seriously. Emergency vehicles were on the scene and the cause is being investigated; it is the peak season for fireworks in Italy because of the summer festivals there.
2015-07-24

Italy reports that ten people have died and 5,800 people have been rescued in the Mediterranean Sea as people smugglers attempt to take advantage of calmer waters.
2015-05-4

American scientists James Rothman and Randy Schekman and German scientist Thomas C. Südhof win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on transport systems in cells.
2013-10-7

Robert G. Edwards, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner for in vitro fertilisation, dies at the age of 87.
2013-04-10

Italy's Court of Cassation overturns the acquittals of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito in the murder of Meredith Kercher and orders a retrial. However, Knox, who returned home immediately upon release, is not expected to be there as the U.S. tends not to extradite its citizens to face legal action.
2013-03-26

Bruce Beutler of the US, Jules A. Hoffmann of France and Ralph Steinman of Canada (posthumously) share the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research into the immune system.
2011-10-3