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Italy appoints an ambassador to Syria after 12 years, becoming the first G7 country to do so.
2024-07-26

Three people are killed and several others are injured in an explosion at a factory in Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy. A similar explosion at the factory in 2020 killed three workers.
2023-09-13

The Italian government announces a ban of New Year's Eve celebrations as well as all mass gatherings and closes nightclubs and bars until the end of January. The government also agree to reintroduce mandatory mask wearing outdoors and will reduce the validity of vaccine certificate to six months beginning from February 1.
2021-12-23

One person is killed and another missing after heavy floods affect the Piedmont region in Italy, while a firefighter is killed by a tree in Aosta Valley. Twenty-one other people go missing but are rescued alive.
2020-10-3

A person is dead and sixteen others tested positive during a legionella outbreak in Busto Arsizio, Italy.
2020-09-4

Italy says all schools and universities will close from March 5 through March 15 to stop the spread of the virus, as the country confirms a total of 3,090 cases and 107 COVID-19-related deaths.
2020-03-4

The French ambassador to Italy is summoned to the Italian foreign ministry to explain an incident in which French police cross over the sovereign border of Italy, enter a migrant clinic in Turin, and force a refugee to take a urine test.
2018-03-31

Italy faces a period of political instability after the results of the general election are almost complete. The populist Five Star Movement (M5S) is projected to be the largest party in the Italian Parliament with 32% of the vote. The party has long stated its hostility towards forming a coalition government.
2018-03-5

Voters in Italy go to the polls to select a centre-left candidate for Prime Minister with Pier Luigi Bersani winning.
2012-12-2

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