Sources: Ansa
Italy reports a record for the third consecutive day of 219,441 new cases of COVID-19, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 6.97 million. 2022-01-6
The Italian Council of Ministers approves the extension of the COVID-19 state of emergency until March 31 and also rules that travellers from other EU countries must present a negative swab test prior to departure due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. 2021-12-14
A person is dead and sixteen others tested positive during a legionella outbreak in Busto Arsizio, Italy. 2020-09-4
The death toll in Mexico rises above 35,000, surpassing Italy. 2020-07-12
Italy confirms that an Italian man has contracted the virus, after he visited his girlfriend in Wuhan. 2020-02-7
A police raid on a neo-Nazi group in northern Italy results in the arrest of three people. Sophisticated weaponry, including a Matra Super 530F air-to-air missile, are seized during the operation. 2019-07-15
Italian police seize 20 tonnes of hashish in a Panama-flagged, Montenegrin-crewed "research and survey" vessel's fuel tanks. 2018-08-9
Italy recalls its ambassador to Egypt for consultations in protest over the lack of progress in a probe into the fate of murdered Cambridge University student Giulio Regeni. "We want only one thing, the truth about what happened to Giulio," Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Friday. 2016-04-8
France and Italy are to send military officers to Libya to train rebels. 2011-04-20
Nine people are thought to have been killed and 30 others are injured, some seriously, after a landslide caused a train to derail in Merano, near the Austrian border with Italy. 2010-04-12