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Ten people are killed, 50 others are injured, and three people are reported missing as floods hit Ancona, Marche, Italy.
2022-09-16

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

An apartment collapses in Turin, Italy during a suspected gas leak, killing a child and wounding three more people.
2021-08-24

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

India surpasses Italy in COVID-19 deaths, becoming the fifth-highest.
2020-07-31

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

An estimated half-million Italians protest in Rome's Circus Maximus against pending legislation that would legalize same-sex unions. The legislation would extend to civil unions the same rights they would have under marriage, including adoption of children.
2016-01-30

The Vatican denies an Italian newspaper report that Pope Francis has a benign brain tumour, saying the 78-year-old pontiff is in good health, and denounces the article as utterly reprehensible.
2015-10-21

Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, reaffirms that country's support for the euro in a joint press conference with the Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi.
2011-01-12

Egyptian prosecutors begin investigating yesterday's incident where an Italian cruise liner smashed into a dock at Sharm el-Sheikh during severe weather conditions, killing sailors from Brazil, Honduras and India and injuring several passengers.
2010-02-27