Sources: Rai News
UNESCO recommends the inclusion of Venice, Italy, a World Heritage Site, on its List of World Heritage in Danger due to overtourism and flooding. 2023-07-31
At least 78 people die and 100 others are rescued after a boat carrying refugees and migrants from Libya to Italy capsizes near Pylos, Messenia, Greece. 2023-06-14
Seven people are killed, eight are injured, and 13 others are reported missing after a serac collapses in Marmolada, Italy. 2022-07-3
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
A bus travelling from Germany to Italy crashes in southern Switzerland, leaving one dead and 14 injured. 2018-10-14
A man died and 12 others were hospitalized when the West Nile virus spread across Italy. 2018-07-30
Italian police arrest four people while 51 others are under investigation for corruption associated with public works including a stretch of the high-speed rail line near Florence. 2015-03-16
Italian police seize 5,361 ancient artifacts worth $64 million from a Swiss-Italian trafficking ring. The discoveries come after various raids on warehouses against Italian art dealer Gianfranco Becchina, who owns an art gallery in Switzerland. 2015-01-21
Voters in Italy go to the polls to select a centre-left candidate for Prime Minister with Pier Luigi Bersani winning. 2012-12-2