Tehran 20 March_Spain says its death toll from the coronavirus epidemic soared Friday to 1,002 from 767 on the previous day, while Italy overtook China for the highest death toll yet.
Tehran 22 February _The first European to succumb to the coronavirus has died in Italy, just hours after 10 towns were locked down following a flurry of new cases.
TEHRAN, Dec 2_ Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has told parliament on Monday a contested reform of the euro zone’s bailout fund was in Italy’s national interest, but that it should only be adopted as a package alongside other measures.
TEHRAN, oct 17_The Iranian Beach Football Team have won the bronze medal in the 2019 World Beach Games in Qatar after defeating Italy in the 3rd-place playoff.
TEHRAN, August 21 - Italy’s head of state wants political parties to reach a deal to form a new coalition government in the next few days if they want to avoid snap elections, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
TEHRAN, August 21 - Italian President Sergio Mattarella begins two days of talks with parties on Wednesday to seek a way out of a political crisis that will lead to the formation of the country’s 67th government since World War Two or to early elections.
TEHRAN, August 20 - The Italian prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, is widely expected to resign after delivering a blistering attack against Matteo Salvini, the leader of the far-right League.
TEHRAN, August 20 - One of the two political groups forming Italy's agonizing government, the 5-Star Movement, has said its former ally and the leader of the far-right League, leader Matteo Salvini is an unreliable interlocutor, without credibility.
TEHRAN, August 9 - The leader of Italy’s ruling League party, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, declared the governing coalition to be unworkable on Thursday after months of internal bickering and said the only way forward was to hold fresh elections.
TEHRAN, August 7 -The Italian Senate on Wednesday rejected a motion by one of the ruling coalition parties, the 5-Star Movement, to block an alpine rail link with France, paving the way for the long-contested project to continue.
TEHRAN, August 4- Locals in a small Montenegrin port town claim their landmark olive tree is "significantly older than Christ," almost 2,250 years old.
TEHRAN, Jul 23 - France and Germany widened the group of countries willing to accept asylum seekers arriving by boat across the Mediterranean, but made no move to accept demands by Italy’s Matteo Salvini that they accept migrant ships directly in their ports.
TEHRAN, Jul 7 - A charity rescue vessel on Saturday brought 41 shipwrecked migrants into port in Lampedusa, the second boat to defy far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's bid to close Italian ports to them.
TEHRAN, Jul 6 - Deputy Italian Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said infrastructure group Atlantia (ATL.MI) should repay excessively high tolls earned in recent years from its motorway concession if it wanted to keep the contract, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
TEHRAN, Jul 4 - A volcano on the Italian island of Stromboli erupted on Wednesday (July 3), releasing hot trapped magma in a powerful explosion, killing one person and enveloping the popular tourist destination in ash, witnesses and local officials said.
TEHRAN, Jul 2 - France accused Italy on Tuesday of acting hysterically over immigration and failing to live up to its duties, triggering a fresh war of words between the increasingly acrimonious European neighbors.
TEHRAN, Jun 28 - Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini threw some support behind motorway operator Atlantia on Friday after a government partner vowed to revoke its toll-road concession, highlighting growing divisions within the ruling coalition.
TEHRAN, Jun 27 - Rome is holding a "constructive" dialogue with the European Commission to avoid a disciplinary procedure on the country's budget, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Thursday.