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Italian trade unions to stage protest on Thursday over workplace deaths.
At least three people were killed and four are missing following an explosion at a hydroelectric power plant on Lake Suviana in northern Italy on...
L'Aquila holds torchlight procession to mark 15 years since earthquake.
Italy marks the 15th anniversary of the 6.3-magnitude earthquake that struck the city of L'Aquila in the early hours of 6 April 2009, killing 309 p...
Nobody injured in sinkhole incident.
Two parked cars were swallowed by a large sinkhole - 10 metres deep and 10 metres wide - which opened up in the Quadraro district of Rome in the early hours of Thursday.
Police an...
Bomb squad assisted by robotic dog Saetta.
Italy's culture ministry in the historic centre of Rome was evacuated on Tuesday morning following a bomb alert.
Around 400 people were evacuated from the building, just of...
Fire broke out in apartment in outskirts of Bologna.
Italian authorities have opened an investigation into a fire that caused the deaths of three children and their mother in the northern city of Bologna on Thursday nig...
Genoa launches three new flavours of ice cream dedicated to women.
As Italy prepares to mark International Women's Day on Friday, a controversy has broken out over an initiative in Genoa offering women three new flavour...
Eustachio baby bonus sparks debate in Matera.
A citizens association in the southern Italian city of Matera is offering a financial reward to parents who name their babies after the city's patron saint Eustachio.
The...
Rescuers find body of last missing person.
The final death toll from last Friday's collapse of a supermarket building site in Florence rose to five after rescuers located the body of the last missing construction worker...
IT-Alert system will be used to warn public of potential emergencies or disaster situations.
Italy's new IT-Alert system is designed to alert the public in the event of "a major emergency or an imminent or ongoing catas...
Vittorio Emanuele was only son of King Umberto II.
Prince Vittorio Emanuele of Savoy, son of Italy's last king, Umberto II, died in Geneva on Saturday aged 86.
"At 7.05 this morning, 3 February 2024, His Royal Highne...
Authorities order pro-Palestinian rallies in Rome and Milan to be rescheduled.
Police chiefs have banned pro-Palestinian rallies from taking place in Rome and Milan on Saturday 27 January, Holocaust Remembrance Day, fol...
Walter Villadei is pilot of Axiom Mission 3.
Italy's prime minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday spoke to Rome astronaut Walter Villadei via live video link between the Colosseum and the International Space Station.
Vi...
Influencer makes €1 million donation to Turin hospital amid storm over misleading charity claims
Italian influencer Chiara Ferragni is at the centre of a controversy for allegedly profiting handsomely from charity drive...
Carabinieri recruit Saetta, the robot police dog.
Italy's Carabinieri military police on Tuesday unveiled Saetta, a remote-controlled robotic dog which initially will be assigned to the bomb squad in Rome.
The four-l...
Rome to transform grounds in front of landmark church.
Italy's annual May Day concert will leave behind its traditional venue outside Rome's Basilica of S. Giovanni in Laterano next year and move to the Circus Maximus,...
All patients evacuated from Tivoli hospital.
Three people died after a large fire broke out on Friday night at a hospital in Tivoli, a town located about 30km east of Rome, with around 200 patients evacuated.
The fir...
Christmas Coca-Cola Truck comes to Rome for the seventh year in a row.
Coca-Cola once again supports Banco Alimentare, the non-profit organisation which has distributed surplus food to people in need across Italy for th...
Festa dell'Immacolata is a public holiday in Italy.
Rome marks the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on Friday 8 December - a Catholic holy day and a national public holiday in Italy - with a series of traditions and s...
Outcry after Italian ski resort dropped Cervinia.
The famed ski resort of Cervinia in northern Italy on Thursday reverted to its pre-Fascist era name of Le Breuil before doing an about-turn following political pressure....
Saudi Arabia capital wins Expo 2030 bid by landslide.Italy was left disappointed on Tuesday after Rome lost out to Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh in its bid to host Expo 2030, following a secret ballot held by the Bureau...
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