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Four people are killed and two others are critically injured in a shooting spree in Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy. The perpetrator later commits suicide.
2024-09-25

Italy withdraws from China's Belt and Road Initiative. Both countries have indicated a desire to maintain open channels of political dialogue.
2023-12-6

Italy reports a record for the second consecutive day of 50,599 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 5.57 million.
2021-12-24

Italy's Ministry of Health reports 250 more deaths from COVID-19, the highest number of deaths in a single 24-hour period in the country to date. The Mayor of Bergamo Giorgio Gori says churches are now being used to store dead bodies as the city's morgues are full.
2020-03-14

The number of virus-related deaths in Italy rise to 366, while the confirmed cases are 7,375.
2020-03-8

Venezuela's Ambassador to Italy, Isaías Rodríguez, resigns, citing the government's lack of finances amid international sanctions on the Nicolás Maduro government. Rodríguez says, due to the sanctions, he has been unable to pay his staff or the rent for his office in Rome.
2019-05-21

A gas leak at the state archive in the city of Arezzo, Italy, kills two employees and injures one other.
2018-09-20

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

Italy releases 2m euros to save the ancient city of Pompeii after flooding causes walls to collapse.
2014-03-4

The "Costa Concordia" is pulled completely upright from the place where it sunk in early 2012 off the coast of Tuscany in Italy.
2013-09-17