We have started to collect the most important news related to Italy in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
BBC News examines what is at stake in Sunday's run-off mayoral election in the Italian capital of Rome.
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Thousands of people try out the latest installation by conceptual artist Christo - a 3km (1.9 mile) walkway on water in northern Italy.
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is recovering after a four-hour operation to replace a defective heart valve.
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An Italian newspaper has come under fire for offering free copies of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf with one of its paid supplements.
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A man extradited to Italy accused of being a top people-smuggler tells police his arrest was a case of mistaken identity.
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is to have heart surgery after an attack that could have killed him, his doctor says.
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Italy is checking the identity of a suspect extradited from Sudan in a high-profile operation against people-smuggling, amid fears he is the wrong man.
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Friends of a man extradited to Italy on Tuesday on people smuggling charges say police have the wrong man.
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Friends of an Eritrean man extradited to Italy on people smuggling charges say police have arrested the wrong man.
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Friends of an Eritrean man extradited to Italy on people smuggling charges say police have arrested the wrong man.
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A former CIA agent says she expects to be extradited from Portugal to Italy imminently for her alleged role in a 2003 terror suspect kidnapping.
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An Eritrean man thought to be at the heart of the operation to smuggle migrants from Africa to Europe is extradited from Sudan to Italy, prosecutors say.
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Italy's tomatoes and Thailand's potent chillies, although closely associated with these nations, have their historical roots elsewhere, a study reveals.
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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been taken to hospital with a heart problem, according to a spokeswoman for his party.
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The anti-establishment Five Star Movement takes a strong lead in Rome's mayoral race, in a blow to Italy's governing centre-left party.
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Rome's woes dominate Italian local elections
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An Italian appeals court upholds the 16-year sentence given to the captain of the Costa Concordia which capsized in 2012, killing 32 people.
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Rescuers pick up 29 migrants at sea off Greece's western island of Lefkada as they headed for Italy, raising concerns about a new smuggling route.
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The Italian navy has released footage of a migrant boat that capsized on Wednesday.
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A Nigerian baby girl who survived a shipwreck in the Mediterranean goes to a foster family in Sicily, after touching Italian hearts.
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The deadly capsizing of a migrant boat in the Mediterranean is caught on camera by the Italian navy as it rescues 550 people.
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Protests are held in Rome after it emerged that Italy's mafia may have organised large-scale cheating during an entry exam for prison guards.
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The European Court of Human Rights allows Amanda Knox to make a legal complaint against Italy's investigation of the murder of Meredith Kercher.
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Excavation work for a new metro line in Rome unearths a huge army barracks from the reign of Emperor Hadrian in the 2nd Century AD.
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Artworks by street artist Banksy from international private collections are to go on display in Rome.
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Italy's health minister outlines plans to double child benefit payments in attempt to combat an "apocalyptic" decline in country's birth rate.
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Controversial Italian fertility doctor Severino Antinori is arrested after a woman said he had forcibly removed eggs from her at his Milan clinic.
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Police in Rome dispersed a crowd of housing activists with water cannons, leaving some protesters to protect themselves with an inflatable boat.
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The BBC's Christian Fraser reports from the Mediterranean, where rescued migrants are lined up aboard an Italian war ship.
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The Ukrainian authorities say they have recovered 17 paintings - worth more than €17m (£13m; $18m) - that were stolen from an Italian museum in 2015.
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Ukraine says it has recovered 17 paintings - including works by Tintoretto and Rubens - stolen from an Italian museum and worth more than €16m (£13m; $18m).
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Italy's parliament paves the way for same-sex civil unions in a vote of confidence for Prime Minister Matteo Renzi.
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Police in Bari, southern Italy, arrest two Afghans suspected of plotting jihadist attacks in Italy, France and the UK.
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Italian luxury goods maker Gucci apologises for sending warning letters to Hong Kong shops selling paper versions of its products as offerings to the dead.
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Rome, the hometown of Premier League-winning manager Claudio Ranieri, is also claiming Leicester City's unlikely triumph as its own.
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A homeless man did not commit a crime when he stole small quantities of food, an Italian court rules, because he clearly acted out of need.
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Four Chinese police officers are to conduct trial patrols with Italian police in Rome and Milan to help Chinese feel safer.
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Eighty-four migrants are missing after their inflatable dinghy sank off the Libyan coast, the International Organization for Migration says.
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An appeals trial is beginning in Italy of captain Francesco Schettino, who has been given 16 years in jail for the 2012 Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster.
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The Austrian parliament passes a controversial new law restricting asylum rights and allowing most claimants to be rejected directly at the border.
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A massive recent surge in migrants travelling to Italy by sea is set to continue, the International Organization for Migration warns.
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Italian researchers say they have identified 35 living people, including director Franco Zeffirelli, who are related to Leonardo da Vinci.
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Almost 19,000 migrants have reached Italy by sea in the three months to the end of March, nearly double the number for the same period last year.
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The number of would-be migrants in Libya is alarming, according to the EU, as Italy rescues 4,000 from the Mediterranean in two days.
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Egypt's President Sisi hits back at criticism over the decision to hand two islands to Saudi Arabia and over the investigation into an Italian student's murder.
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A painting that may be by the Italian master Caravaggio and worth £94m is found in the loft of a house in southern France.
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Italy's financial industry has agreed a government-backed plan to set up a rescue fund to help weaker banks.
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Egypt rejects Italy's request for phone records relating to the death of Italian student Giulio Regeni in Cairo earlier this year.
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Italy recalls its ambassador to Egypt for consultations over the murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni in Cairo.
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There has been outrage in Italy after state television interviewed Giuseppe Salvatore Riina, a convicted mobster and son of a notorious Mafia boss.
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Egyptian officials are to brief Italian counterparts in Rome on progress in an investigation into the brutal Cairo murder of student Giulio Regeni.
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Scientists may be closer to revealing the route taken by Hannibal as he crossed to Alps to attack ancient Rome.
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Murdered Italian's family seeks answers from Egypt
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Austrian police clash with people demonstrating against the closure of Europe's frontiers at the Brenner Pass border crossing with Italy.
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Former AC Milan defender and Italy coach Cesare Maldini dies at the age of 84.
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A pensioner in Rome raises the alarm after receiving a call, apparently made at random, from migrants on a sinking boat in the Mediterranean.
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A registered nurse is arrested in Italy on suspicion of murdering 13 patients, in a case described as "the killer on the ward", police say.
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The family of murdered Italian student Giulio Regeni threatens to release a photo of his body if Egypt fails to uncover the truth behind his death.
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Italian luxury car maker Maserati is recalling nearly 21,000 cars in China over a design defect that could increase the risk of a collision.
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Pope Francis condemns those who fail to help migrants, during his traditional Easter speech in Rome.
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Pope Francis has celebrated Easter ceremonies in Rome amid under security, following the terror attacks in Belgium.
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Egyptian prosecutors have ordered the detention of four people in relation to the murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni, officials say.
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CCTV shows several thieves stealing paintings off the walls of the Castelvecchio museum in Verona, Italy.
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The EU naval force targeting migrant smuggling gangs says there has been a sudden increase in the number of boats attempting to cross from Libya to Italy.
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More than two dozen top tennis players should be investigated for possible links to betting rings, an Italian prosecutor says.
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An Italian father and son living in Zimbabwe have been shot dead by wildlife rangers during an anti-poaching patrol, officials say.
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