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Campania region of Italy schedules IT-alert test.
Italy will test its new IT-alert system in the southern Campania region around Naples on Friday 11 October at 17.00 when members of the public will receive a "TEST" mess...
Major search operation underway for baby and grandmother in Pisa province.
Firefighters on Tuesday continued a search for a five-month-old baby and his grandmother missing after floods hit Italy's central Tuscany region...
Final death toll of Saviano disaster rises to four.
Four people from the same family, including two young siblings, died after a two-storey apartment building collapsed in the town of Saviano, near Naples, early on Sund...
Emergency situation in Emilia-Romagna and Marche regions.
More than 1,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna amid torrential rain and severe floods caused by Sto...
Storm wreaked havoc in Rome on Tuesday.
Rome's ancient Arch of Constantine near the Colosseum was damaged by lightning during a violent storm that wreaked havoc on the Italian capital on Tuesday afternoon.
The lightn...
Ashes rain down on the centre of Rome.
Four teams of firefighters and three Canadair planes on Thursday battled a large wildfire that broke out around Via Monte Carnevale in the Muratella area to the west of Rome.
Th...
Mike Lynch's daughter Hannah was last person missing after Bayesian sank on Monday.
Divers have found the body of the sixth and final person missing after a superyacht sank off Sicily on Monday, believed to be 18-year-o...
Rome wildfire may have been caused by arson.
The head of Rome's civil protection department has urged residents to donate blood after four emergency responders were seriously injured in a vast wildfire in the city's sub...
Rome police investigate cause of wildfire.
One firefighter and three civil protection volunteers were hospitalised with severe burns sustained while battling a vast wildfire in the eastern outskirts of Rome on Wednesday...
Search continues for final missing body on Bayesian
Divers searching for six missing people following the sinking of a superyacht off Sicily's coast have recovered five bodies, Italian authorities said on Thursday.
T...
British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and Morgan Stanley boss Jonathan Bloomer among those missing after Bayesian sank off Sicily.
Rescuers continued their search on Tuesday for six people missing after a luxury superyacht san...
One dead and six missing in Bayesian yacht sinking.
One man died and six other people were missing, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, after a luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily during a violent storm earl...
Siena holds Palio on two dates each summer.
The historic Palio di Siena horse race returns on Friday 16 August, with bareback riders battling it out in the mediaeval heart of the Tuscan city.
The Palio dates back to...
Sensational discovery made headlines around the world.
The famed Riace Bronzes, two ancient Greek warrior statues, were found by chance in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Italy's southern Calabria region on this day 52...
22 cities across Italy on maximum red alert for heat on Wednesday.
Italy continues to experience scorching hot temperatures from north to south in the days leading up to Ferragosto, the national summer holiday on Thursd...
Indian man fined €550 for getting into Trevi Fountain to steal coins.
Rome police fined a 40-year-old Indian man €550 after he waded into the waters of the Trevi Fountain on Sunday evening to steal coins thrown by touri...
Weekend of 10-11 August set to be Italy's hottest in 2024.
Italy faces the hottest weekend so far this summer, according to weather forecasters, with scorching temperatures expected from the north to the south of the co...
Pietrapaola earthquake felt across Calabria.
The southern Italian region of Calabria was shaken by a 5-magnitude earthquake at 21.43 on Thursday night, the strongest terremoto in the area in the last 12 years.
The ep...
Rome mayor says fire may have been caused by illegal camp.
Rome prosecutors have opened an investigation into the cause of a large wildfire that broke out on the slopes of Monte Mario, a nature reserve in a northern sub...
Rome urges tourists to download fountain app.
The Italian health ministry has issued a maximum 'red alert' for Rome on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday as an intense heatwave sweeps the country.
In addition to Rome, th...
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