Italy
Italy's life expectancy drops 1.2 years over COVID
Life expectancy at birth last year stood at 82 years, compared to 83.2 years in 2019, the Istat national statistics office said in a new release.
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Italy says it has received most Afghan evacuees in EU
Italy's foreign minister said it had evacuated close to 5,000 Afghan citizens in recent days, speaking at Rome's Fiumicino airport as the last Italian aircraft from Kabul landed with 58 more Afghan citizens on board.
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Italy reimposes coronavirus measures in Sicily
From Monday, masks will again be required outdoors as well as indoors on the island and restaurant diners will be limited to groups of four following an increase in cases of COVID-19.
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New heat record as 'Lucifer' sweeps Italy
The blistering temperature was recorded near Syracuse, beating Italy's all-time record of 48.5 degrees, set in Sicily in 1999, and the 1977 record of 48 degrees at Eleusis in Greece.
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Italy hails Olympic track and field heroes
Italy saluted its 'Gods of Olympus' Monday after sprinter Lamont Marcell Jacobs won a shock victory in the Olympic 100 metres and high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi also took gold.
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Rome region website hacked, affecting vaccine bookings
'A hacker attack is underway... all defence and verification operations are ongoing to avoid prolonging the cut in services,' the region said on its Twitter account.
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Mask-free and 'low risk', Italy welcomes milestone
A third of Italy's population over the age of 12 has been vaccinated as of Sunday, or 17,572,505 people, according to the government.
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Italy targets Booking.com over alleged tax evasion
Netherlands-based Booking.com, one of the global giants of hotel reservations on the web, has 'failed to apply the tax on brokering of rentals of private homes and guest rooms,' said police in a statement.
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Italian cable car crash suspects released from jail
Service manager Gabriele Tadini was put under house arrest, while technical director Enrico Perocchio and the head of the cable car operating company, Luigi Nerini, were released.
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Italy cable car accident kills 8
The accident, which occurred around 300 metres from the summit, may have been caused by a broken cable at the top of the system, the Ansa news agency said.
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Djokovic sweeps into Italian Open quarter-finals in front of Roman crowd
The five-time Rome champion won through 6-2, 6-1 in 1hr 10min against the 48th-ranked Spaniard with the venue filled to 25 per cent of capacity.
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Italy fines Google 100 mn euros for abuse of market position
The authority said Google, whose Android operating system and Google Play app store dominate the Italian market, had abused its market position by blocking an Enel X app for users of electric vehicles.
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Thousand migrants land on Italy's Lampedusa
The arrivals sparked calls from far-right politicians for urgent action, amid fresh tensions between Italian authorities and the rescue boats who operate in the central Mediterranean.
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Italy misses vaccine targets due to supply problems
The government had said in a document published March 13 that it counted on procuring 15.7 million vaccine doses by the end of the first quarter of 2021.
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Irish, Dutch halt AstraZeneca jabs as Italy gets set for curbs
Vaccinations are a key tool to end the worst of a pandemic that has killed more than 2.6 million people since it emerged in China in late 2019.
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Italian region suspends AstraZeneca jabs after death
The woman, who age has not been disclosed, died Sunday at Biella, a town north of Turin.
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With new Covid wave, most of Italy heads back into lockdown
One year after it became the first European country to face a major outbreak, Italy is once again struggling with the rapid spread of Covid-19, this time fuelled by new, more contagious variants.
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Facing new COVID-19 wave, Italy heads back into lockdown
A majority of regions - including those around Rome and Milan - will reportedly be classified as high-risk red zones from Monday, with all residents told to stay home except for work, health or other essential reasons.
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Italy mayor accused of vaccine queue-jumping resigns
Nicolosi, mayor of Corleone, a small town near Palermo, said he was quitting "even if I insist that I made the right choice in getting vaccines for me and city councillors."
