We have started to collect the most important news related to Italy in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
A record haul of rare antiquities is revealed by Italian police after a lengthy inquiry into a Swiss-based trafficking ring.
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Oil giant BP's boss Bob Dudley has told the BBC that oil prices could remain low for up to three years, and that UK petrol prices may fall below £1 a litre.
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Crowds again line the motorcade route to bid farewell to Pope Francis after a five-day visit to the Philippines.
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Two young Italian aid workers who had been taken hostage in northern Syria last year arrive safely home following their release.
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Italian President Giorgio Napolitano announces his retirement in a resignation letter, with uncertainty as to who will be his replacement.
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India's Supreme Court allows Italian marine Massimiliano Latorre who is accused of killing two Indian fishermen in 2012 to extend his stay in Italy by three more months on health grounds.
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Pope Francis is trying to shift the focus of the Catholic Church away from Rome - and towards millions of Asian followers.
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Director Francesco Rosi, one of Italy's most acclaimed and influential film-makers from the 1950s to the '90s, dies at the age of 92.
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Actress Anita Ekberg, the star of Federico Fellini's 1960 movie La Dolce Vita, dies in hospital at the age of 83.
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A Syrian dental student explains why he chose to make the dangerous journey to Italy on board a ship that was abandoned by its crew at sea.
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Italian police believe human traffickers made some $3m from 359 illegal migrants found abandoned on a cargo ship in the Mediterranean.
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Fierce heat from slow-burning blazes are still keeping rescue crews from searching the hold and vehicle decks of the Norman Atlantic ferry.
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Refugees from the Syrian conflict, who were abandoned by people traffickers on an animal cargo ship in the Mediterranean, are being found accommodation in Italy.
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Some 360 migrants on board a ship abandoned by its crew off Italy disembark after the vessel is towed to the Italian port of Corigliano Calabro.
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A ship carrying 360 migrants, which was abandoned by its crew off Italy, arrives at the port of Corigliano Calabro.
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A ship abandoned by its crew off Italy with 360 migrants on board has arrived at the Italian port of Corigliano Calabro, the coastguard says.
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The Italian coastguard has taken control of a merchant ship carrying more than 400 migrants that is adrift in the Mediterranean without any crew on board.
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More than 80% of the city's police officers who were due to work on New Year's Eve didn't turn up.
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Italian authorities say they have taken control of a ship carrying 450 migrants that was abandoned by its crew off the coast of Italy.
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The Italian coastguard is co-ordinating a rescue operation for a merchant ship adrift off the south-east coast of Italy with at least 400 migrants on board.
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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas signs the Rome Statute in a bid to join the International Criminal Court, prompting objections from Israel.
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A cargo ship said to be carrying 700 clandestine migrants docks in the Italian port of Gallipoli under coastguard control after the crew abandoned ship.
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Italian Raffaele Marciello is named as Sauber's test and reserve driver for the 2015 Formula 1 season.
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Italian officials say they are not certain how many people are still missing from a stricken ferry off Corfu, with all those on board now evacuated.
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Italian officials confirm 10 people have died after a fire on the Norman Atlantic ferry off Corfu, amid uncertainty over the number still missing.
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All remaining passengers have been rescued from an Italian ferry which caught fire off the Greek island of Corfu, officials have said.
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Five people have died and over 50 are still waiting to be rescued after a blaze on an Italian ferry off the Greek island of Corfu, officials say.
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Rescuers have spent the night battling smoke and gale-force winds to try to save more than 250 passengers trapped on a burning Italian ferry in the Adriatic Sea.
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The Italian government intervenes in the management of the Ilva steel plant, in an attempt to reform the beleaguered business.
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Italy's competition watchdog fines travel website Tripadvisor €500,000 (£392,000) for publishing misleading information in its reviews.
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Napoli bring an end to Juventus's dominance of the Italian Super Cup with a sudden-death penalty shootout win in Doha.
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The Italian government is to spend around €200,000 (£156,000) on a new plinth for Michaelangelo's David to protect the statue from earth tremors.
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Renowned Italian film composer Ennio Morricone tells the BBC's Will Gompertz that he regrets turning down the chance to compose music for Clint Eastwood.
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Italian screen actress Virna Lisi, famed in the 1960s for appearing opposite stars including Frank Sinatra, dies at the age of 78.
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Hundreds of couples dance a mass tango in Rome's St Peter's Square in honour of Pope Francis' 78th birthday.
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Hundreds of mainly elderly couples have performed a Tango in St Peter's Square in Rome to mark the seventy-eighth birthday of Pope Francis.
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India's Supreme Court denies travel appeals of the two Italian marines accused of killing two Indian fishermen in 2012.
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Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi confirms that Rome will enter a bid to host the 2024 summer Olympic Games.
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US Secretary of State John Kerry meets his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, in Rome on the eve of talks with the Israeli prime minister.
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Pope Francis declines to meet exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in Rome, as the Vatican seeks to improve ties with China.
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England's Chris Langridge and Marcus Ellis win badminton men's doubles at the Italian International to claim their first title.
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A general strike halts transport and other public services across Italy, in a challenge to Prime Minister Renzi's labour market reforms.
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Italian push for flexible labour market triggers backlash
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Protesters rallied near Italy's famous La Scala opera house in Milan to demonstrate against labour market reforms and austerity measures.
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Seventeen migrants have died while attempting to cross the Mediterranean in a small inflatable boat, the Italian navy says.
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Turner's Rome, From Mount Aventine sells at Sotheby's for £30.3m - the highest amount ever paid for a work by the artist.
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A flu vaccine made by Swiss firm Novartis has been ruled safe, after it was suspended by Italy over safety concerns.
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Italian police arrest 37 people and search the home of Rome's former mayor Gianni Alemanno in a major anti-Mafia operation.
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Italy suspends the use of two batches of a flu vaccine made by Swiss firm Novartis after four people died within 48 hours of receiving the drug.
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European and African ministers have been meeting in Rome to discuss ways to deal with heavy migration between the two continents.
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An Italian doctor who contracted Ebola while working for a charity in Sierra Leone is being flown back to Rome for treatment, officials say.
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Italy's first female astronaut has arrived at the International Space Station.
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The Italian city of Venice is considering a ban on noisy wheeled suitcases amid concerns they are keeping locals awake at night.
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Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel joins Ferrari on a three-year deal as Fernando Alonso leaves the Italian team.
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Relations between the Church and State have always been a thorny issue in Italian politics - and they have not got any easier during the economic slowdown.
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Rome's troubled Opera house announces nearly 200 jobs have been saved after it signed a deal with trade unions.
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Uefa starts disciplinary action against Croatia and Italy following trouble during the Euro 2016 qualifier between the sides.
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Anti-mafia police reveal unprecedented footage of a mafia initiation as they arrest 40 people in raids in northern Italy.
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A teenager and her grandfather have been killed by a mudslide in northern Italy.
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At least four people are killed when landslides engulf homes in southern Switzerland and northern Italy following days of torrential rain.
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Storms and heavy rains batter parts of Italy and Switzerland, causing a number of fatalities.
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Flares and crowd disturbances force stoppages in play during Sunday's Euro 2016 qualifier between Italy and Croatia.
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Palais de Tokyo director Jean de Loisy explains why Italian performance artist Sven Sachsalber is trying to find a needle in a pile of hay in a contemporary art gallery in Paris.
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The Italian artist Sven Sachsalber is spending 48 hours searching for a needle in a pile of hay at a museum in Paris.
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Eurosceptic Grillo seeks anti-euro referendum
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A group of Italian scientists convicted of manslaughter for failing to predict a deadly earthquake in 2009 have had the verdict quashed.
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