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Five people are killed and two others are injured when a passenger train collides with track workers doing maintenance work in Brandizzo, Piedmont, Italy.
2023-08-31

Italians go to the polls to for a referendum on whether to approve a constitutional law that amends the Constitution of Italy to reform the powers of the Italian Parliament. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who introduced the referendum bill, resigns after exit polls show that the no case is likely to be successful.
2016-12-4

During a visit to Iran, Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi signs various bilateral agreements to enhance relations between the two countries, including plans for cooperation between the Italian electricity and gas company Enel and the National Iranian Oil Company.
2016-04-12

Authorities arrest four Kosovo jihadists men, three in Italy and one in Kosovo, for making nonspecific threats against Pope Francis and the former U.S. Ambassador to Kosovo. The men are described by police as highly dangerous and as having celebrated the November 2015 Paris attacks.
2015-12-2

Amanda Knox tells the American media she refuses to return to Italy to be arrested after again being found guilty of the same murder.
2014-01-31

In Italy, a man shoots and wounds two policemen outside Palazzo Chigi, during the swearing ceremony of the new Prime Minister Enrico Letta.
2013-04-28

Two people are shot dead at close range in the center of Milan. Hours later, another shooting in plain view shakes the financial capital of Italy.
2012-09-11

Eurozone leaders hold an emergency meeting on assistance to Spain and Italy.
2012-06-28

Italy temporarily closes its embassy and withdraws its staff, citing threats against Western embassies in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a.
2011-05-31

Italian politics's rising star Matteo Renzi, the Mayor of Florence, calls for the retirement of Silvio Berlusconi's generation, Berlusconi himself being "only six years younger than my granny".
2011-02-20