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The Mount Etna and Mount Stromboli volcanoes on the Italian island of Sicily erupt, forcing a temporary closure of Catania–Fontanarossa Airport.
2024-07-5

Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, one of the most wanted men in Italy and Europe, is arrested in Palermo, Sicily, Italy, after 30 years on the run.
2023-01-16

A firefighting aircraft of the Italian Protezione Civile crashes on Mount Etna in Sicily while fighting a forest fire, killing the two pilots on board.
2022-10-27

Seven people are dead and two more missing after a residential building explodes and collapses due to a gas leak in Ravanusa, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy.
2021-12-11

Amid an unprecedented heat wave and ongoing wildfires, authorities on the island of Sicily report a record temperature of 48.8°C (119.8°F). If verified by the World Meteorological Organization, it would be the highest temperature ever recorded in both Italy and Europe.
2021-08-11

Italian police seize a migrant rescue boat after it spent over a week stranded at sea unable to find a port to accept it; over 100 migrants begin to disembark in Sicily.
2019-09-2

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

Representatives from 12 European Union countries do not reach an agreement on Italy's request to take in the 150 migrants still remaining on the "Diciotti"-class vessel in Catania, Sicily, after their rescue by the Italian Coast Guard nine days ago.
2018-08-24

South of Sicily, Italy's Coast Guard saves 941 trafficked migrants aboard five motorized dinghies and two larger vessels near southern Italian ports. Authorities cannot account for ten people.
2015-03-4

A woman is diagnosed with Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease ("human mad cow disease") in Milan then hospitalised in Livorno, only the second case in Italy's history and the first since Sicily 2002.
2010-07-22