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A symbolic re-trial for medieval Italian writer Dante Alighieri, who was sentenced to exile "in absentia" in 1302, is held virtually in Florence.
2021-05-21

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

Two people from Lombardy, Italy, living in Austria's state of Tyrol, test positive for coronavirus.
2020-02-25

Mount Etna erupts, causing the closure of Catania–Fontanarossa Airport in Sicily, Italy.
2018-12-24

Italian refugee documentary "Fire at Sea", directed by Gianfranco Rosi, wins the 66th Berlin International Film Festival's Golden Bear award for best film.
2016-02-20

NATO, during a two-day meeting, considers request from Turkey and Greece to monitor migrant transit in the Aegean Sea and to combat human traffickers squeezing refugees onto unsafe boats.
2016-02-10

The Vatican denies an Italian newspaper report that Pope Francis has a benign brain tumour, saying the 78-year-old pontiff is in good health, and denounces the article as utterly reprehensible.
2015-10-21

In Slovakia, thousands of demonstrators rally against European Union plans to host asylum-seekers, and dozens are detained after they attacked spectators of a cycle race in the capital, Bratislava.
2015-06-20

Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, reaffirms that country's support for the euro in a joint press conference with the Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi.
2011-01-12