ROME, March 13 — Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday the government will create an investment fund worth €1 billion (US$1.1 billion) to promote the development of artificial intelligence (AI), reported Xinhua.

ROME, Jan 31 — The first batch of 11 wounded children accompanied by their family members from the war-torn Gaza arrived in Rome, Italy, to receive further medical treatment in Italian hospitals, Palestine News and Information Agency (WAFA) reported.

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 16 — The Investment, Trade and Industry (Miti) secured a total of RM2.84 billion in potential investment and RM500 million of potential exports of Malaysian products and services from the trade and investment mission to Milan and Turin, Italy, from January 12 to 16.

ROME, Nov 7 — Italy's financial guard seized €779 million (RM3.88 billion) from Airbnb Ireland Unlimited Company, the owner of the short-term rental service, in a case of tax evasion in Italy, Sputnik quoted Italian media reports yesterday.

PUTRAJAYA, July 2 — Agriculture and Food Security Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Sabu will visit Rome in Italy and Budapest in Hungary to strengthen cooperation in the agricultural sector from July 2 to July 8.

ROME, Feb 9 — The energy released by twin earthquakes that hit the 10 southern provinces of Türkiye was 130 times stronger than the one that occurred in Italy in 2016, a prominent Italian scientist said.

ROME, July 24 — Italy has confirmed a total of more than 400 monkeypox cases, the country’s Health Ministry Prevention Director General Gianni Rezza said after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the current disease outbreak a public health emergency.

KUALA LUMPUR, July 6 — Malaysia is looking forward to new and expanding investments from Italy, with a particular focus on new potential areas of growth such as machinery, automation, aerospace, green technology, food production, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and other high technology industries, as well as digital investments.

ROME, July 2 — Italy's Covid-19 transmission rate has increased for the fourth consecutive week, according to a weekly government report released Friday.

ROME, March 26 — The Italian national football team's upset at the hands of North Macedonia left the team out of the second consecutive World Cup, an outcome called a "disaster" by the country's leading sports daily on Friday.

ROME, March 27 — The population in Italy has declined by about 384,000 in the past year, as deaths reached their highest level due to declining birth rates and an outbreak of the coronavirus, reported Anadolu Agency quoting the officials.

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 — Italy’s Ambassador to Malaysia Cristiano Maggipinto said trade between Italy and Malaysia is more stable than Italy’s trade with other countries of the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) this year despite the setbacks caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

ROME, Nov 12 — The total number of coronavirus cases registered in Italy since the start of the pandemic surpassed the one million mark on Wednesday, the health ministry said, with 32,961 new infections recorded in the past 24 hours.

VENICE, Oct 3 — A long-delayed flood barrier system successfully protected Venice from a high tide for the first time on Saturday, bringing big relief to the lagoon city after years of repeated inundations.

MILAN/LONDON, June 19 — Scientists in Italy have found traces of the new coronavirus in wastewater collected from Milan and Turin in December 2019 - suggesting Covid-19 was already circulating in Northern Italy before China reported the first cases.

ROME, June 3 — Italy is lifting the next part of coronavirus-related restrictions on Wednesday, which will allow residents to move freely across the country, and citizens of the Schengen countries and the UK to come to Italy as tourists, reported Sputnik news agency.

NEW YORK, May 21 — Global coronavirus cases surpassed 5 million on Wednesday, with Latin America overtaking the United States and Europe in the past week to report the largest portion of new daily cases globally.

ANKARA, May 20 — The global tally for novel coronavirus infections surpassed 4.9 million on Wednesday, according to a running tally by US-based Johns Hopkins University.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 28 — Some 220 Malaysians still residing in Italy have chosen not to return to Malaysia following the spread of Covid-19, said Malaysia’s Ambassador to Italy Datuk Abdul Malik Melvin Castelino.

MADRID/ROME, April 5 — Spain's confirmed coronavirus case tally reached 124,736 on Saturday, more than Italy's total of 124,632, Xinhua news agency quoted latest figures from the two countries.