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Italy steps up covid vaccination campaign of teenagers ahead of return to school.
Young people in Italy aged between 12 and 18 years will be able to get vaccinated against covid-19 without booking in advance, starting f...
Tesla and Space X founder is visiting Tuscany.
Elon Musk, the tech magnate and one of the richest people in the world, paid a surprise visit to the Uffizi Galleries in Florence on Tuesday evening.
Together with his p...
Clarification comes after days of confusion in Italy's hospitality sector.
Italy’s bars and restaurants can ask customers for identification documents when they present the Green Pass but only in cases when there is "ev...
Italy's bars and restaurants not to ask for ID when checking for Green Pass covid certificate.The Italian government is moving to clear up confusion over Green Pass protocols after interior minister Luciana Lamorgese sai...
Olympic athlete met with cheers in Rome airport.
Marcell Jacobs, the Italian athlete who claimed the unofficial title of 'Fastest Man in the World' at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, has returned to Rome where he lives with hi...
Roman drivers bid farewell to sampietrini on Via Nazionale.
Rome's traditional cobblestones or 'sampietrini' are being removed from the central Via Nazionale street and being replaced with asphalt.
The move is part o...
Italy braced for 'Lucifer' heatwave amid increased risk of wildfires in the week leading up to the Ferragosto summer holiday.
Italy is set to experience soaring temperatures in the coming days with the arrival of the 'L...
Italy gets to grips with new covid Green Pass rules.
20 million Green Pass certificates have been downloaded in Italy in the last three days, announced health minister Roberto Speranza on 9 August.
Hailing it as "an...
Europe's tallest active volcano wakes up local residents with a bang.
Mount Etna erupted with strong explosions at dawn this morning, 9 August, shaking the walls and floors of nearby buildings in the Catania province of...
Vatican Museums requires visitors to show Green Pass which may also be needed to attend the pope's weekly audience.
Pope Francis has his own Green Pass, the certificate showing that people have been vaccinated, tested n...
Italy ends 2020 Olympics in 10th place on the medal table.
Italy ends its Olympic adventure in Tokyo with a total of 40 medals, the most the country ever won, beating the previous record of 36 set in Los Angeles 1932 an...
Mattarella and Draghi are both on summer vacation in Italy.
Italy's president and prime minister have both opted for 'staycations' as the country's leaders take their annual summer leave in the lead-up to the Ferragosto...
Pompeii will open up newly unearthed thermopolium this summer.
The Pompeii archaeological park is to open the recently discovered thermopolium - described as a sort of ancient 'fast food' counter - to the public from 12...
Italy smashes its Olympic medal record as Marcell Jacobs wins gold again.
Italy won a gold medal - the third one today - in the 4x100m relay race at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo on 6 August.
Italy set a new national re...
Sicilian karate champ Busà wins Italy's ninth gold medal in Tokyo.
Italy's Luigi Busà has won a gold medal in the men's karate 'kumite' competition in the -75kg category, defeating Azerbaijan's Rafael Aghayev in the Tok...
Italy's new Green Pass rules came into force on 6 August.
The Pompeii archaeological park is offering free covid tests to visitors who arrive without the Green Pass which became obligatory for museums across Italy on 6...
Fiumicino airport sees gradual increase in air traffic.
Rome's Leonardo da Vinci airport, better known as Fiumicino, reopened its Terminal 1 on Friday 6 August.
Terminal 1 had been closed since 17 March 2020, days af...
Italy's covid health passport is now required to dine indoors in restaurants.
Italy rolls out its newly expanded Green Pass rules today, Friday 6 August, in a contentious move designed to curb the rise of covid-19.
T...
Italy to suspend teachers and block pay after five days of absence for not having Green Pass.
The Italian government is to make the covid 'Green Pass' mandatory for teachers and school staff, as well as staff and studen...
FBI and Europol cooperate with Italian police in Regione Lazio hacking investigation.
The FBI and Europol are assisting Italian police with the investigation into the cyber attack on the website of the Regione Lazio, th...
Pennacchi won Italy's Strega Prize for his novel Canale Mussolini.
The Italian writer Antonio Pennacchi died on the evening of 3 August, aged 71, the Mondadori publishing house announced.
Pennacchi, died at home in L...
Malagò responds to US and UK press coverage of Jacobs' Olympic victory.
Coverage of Marcell Jacobs' victory of the Men's 100m final in Tokyo by some US and UK media is "a source of great regret and also embarrassment,"...
Lazio region website hit by most serious hacking incident ever in Italy says Zingaretti.
The website of the Lazio region, which includes the Italian capital, remains down on Tuesday morning after being hit by a cyber at...
Green Pass comes into force across Italy on 6 August.
The Vatican Museums will require all visitors to present 'Green Pass' covid certification, "or equivalent certificate," with effect from Friday 6 August.
The Gree...
Jacobs succeeds Usain Bolt as new fastest man in the world as Italy's GianmarcoTamberi wins gold in high jump.
Lamont Marcell Jacobs has made Olympic history by becoming the first Italian to win the Men's 100m final whi...
Visitor numbers at Colosseum rise thanks to European tourists.
The Colosseum is currently welcoming an average of seven to eight thousand tourists a day, with visitor numbers rising, according to Italian newspaper Corri...
South and central Italy set to sizzle while north-west to be hit by storms this weekend.
Italy's health ministry has issued a 'red alert' warning for eight cities due to a heatwave sweeping the country, with temperature...
Colosseum and Palazzo Barberini to host Rome G20 summit.
The first G20 Culture Ministers’ Meeting is being held in Rome on 29 and 30 July, in a major two-day event held under the Italian G20 presidency.
The meeting b...
However the impact on hospitals remains minimal.
Italy has "effectively entered the fourth wave" of covid-19, according to a report issued on Thursday by the Gimbe Foundation, a public health think tank.
The indepede...
Mattarella says it is the virus that limits freedom, not the rules in place to defeat it.
Italy's president Sergio Mattarella has said that getting vaccinated against covid-19 is a "moral and civic duty," warning that t...
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