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The Italian Health ministry recommends that severely immunocompromised people should receive a fourth dose of the mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine at least 120 days after receiving their previous booster.
2022-02-20

The city of Nuoro, on the island of Sardinia, Italy, is affected by flooding and subsequent mudflows caused by heavy rains, killing at least three people.
2020-11-28

93 more coronavirus cases are confirmed in Italy, bringing the number to 322. Four more virus-related deaths are confirmed, bringing the death toll to eleven.
2020-02-25

Italy confirms that a 78-year-old man in Padua, Veneto, and a woman in her 70s in Codogno, Lombardy, have died after contracting the virus. They are the first two coronavirus deaths in Italy.
2020-02-22

Three employees of infrastructure firm Atlantia are arrested by Italian police on suspicion of offences connected to falsification of safety documentations for motorway bridges. The probe follows the disaster which killed 43 in August 2018.
2019-09-13

The centre-left alliance Italy Common Good led by the Democratic Party wins the Italian general election. However the number of seats will not guarantee the majority in the Senate, paving the way to instability.
2013-02-25

Voters in Italy go to the polls for the first day of a general election.
2013-02-24

Italy's outgoing Prime Minister Mario Monti is to lead a coalition of centre parties going into a parliamentary election in February 2013.
2012-12-28

Nine people, including three Italian medical workers, are detained over accusations of plotting to kill Governor of Helmand Gulab Mangal.
2010-04-11

Odeon Cinemas in Ireland, Italy and the UK confirm their intention to boycott Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland" in a dispute with Disney.
2010-02-22