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The 9pm to 6am curfew came into force at midnight on Friday

Up to 20 million people under Covid-19 curfew in France

Coronavirus • 17 Oct

Italy has been struggling to attract buyers for Monte dei Paschi, which faces pending litigations after years of mismanagement

Italy PM expected to sign off on Monte dei Paschi deal

Business • 16 Oct

Police arrested four suspects at a nearby pub 'with blood still on their hands'

Italy arrests 4 after fatal assault on good samaritan

World • 09 Sep

File image: Getty

Mafia boss bites off and swallows prison guard's finger

World • 08 Sep

Giuseppe Mastini (centre) took advantage of a temporary release from a high-security jail in Sardinia to flee, failing to return to his cell on Saturday (file pic)

Prominent Italian criminal escapes jail for third time

World • 07 Sep

The Italian government rescued Monte dei Paschi in 2017, taking a 68% stake in the bank for €5.4 billion

Italy wants to find a buyer for Monte dei Paschi

Business • 07 Sep

Silvio Berlusconi and two of his children tested positive for Covid-19

Berlusconi hospitalised after positive virus test

Coronavirus • 04 Sep

Local media reports said the driver and conductor had stepped off the train for a break

In pictures: Train leaves station without driver

World • 19 Aug

The MSC Grandiosa cruise liner preparing to leave Genoa, Italy, after six-and-half months of inactivity

Italy closes nightclubs as virus cases rise among young

World • 16 Aug

Michael Cawley went on holidays to Italy, which is on the Government's Green List, but official advice is to avoid non-essential travel abroad

Fáilte Ireland Chairman resigns over holiday to Italy

Coronavirus • 15 Aug

The block of ice is estimated to be about 500,000 cubic metres

Italian resort evacuated over risk of falling ice

Europe • 06 Aug

Jets trailing the colours of the Italian flag roar overhead at the inauguration of the Genoa bridge

Genoa bridge reopens two years after collapse killed 43

Europe • 04 Aug

Matteo Salvini told the senate that he was 'proud to have defended Italy'

Italian senate paves way for Salvini migrant trial

Europe • 30 Jul

The image was found in the attic of an abandoned farmhouse in the eastern Italian region of Abruzzo last month

Stolen Banksy tribute to Paris attack victims returned

News Lens • 14 Jul

Captagon was originally produced for medical use but illegal versions have been dubbed the 'Jihad drug' (file pic)

Italy seizes €1bn haul of IS-made drug from Syria

Europe • 01 Jul

Premium wines were refilled with low quality produce and then sold on an online auction platform (Pic: Europol)

Europol uncork network selling fake Italian wines

News Lens • 30 Jun

Study found genetic traces of Sars-CoV-2 in samples of waste water collected in Milan and Turin at the end of last year

Virus in Italy by December - waste water study

Coronavirus • 19 Jun

Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte

Prosecutors set to probe Italian PM over virus handling

World • 10 Jun

The artwork by street artist Banksy on a side street to the Bataclan concert hall in June 2018

Stolen Banksy artwork recovered in Italy

Europe • 10 Jun

Passengers at Rome's Fiumicino airport

Italy reopens to tourists from Europe

Coronavirus • 03 Jun

The port at Gioia Tauro

Mafia conspired to rig tenders for €42m in EU funds

Europe • 28 May

The team managed to find parts of the ancient Roman Villa that was discovered more than a century ago (Picture courtesy of Comune di Negrar di Valpolicella)

Italian team unearth mosaic floor from Roman villa

News Lens • 27 May

People walk in front of the Colosseum by bicycle in Rome over the weekend

Italy's government seeks crowd control volunteers

Coronavirus • 26 May

A woman wearing a protective mask takes selfie photos in front of the Colosseum in Rome

Italian PM 'cautiously optimistic' about next phase

Coronavirus • 19 May

The proposed fund would go to 'worst hit sectors and regions' in the 27-member EU bloc

France, Germany propose €500bn economic relaunch plan

Coronavirus • 18 May

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