The video app TikTok was ordered by Italian data privacy watchdog to suspend accounts from underage users from the European country following a lethal incident with a 10-year old girl from Palermo, Sicily, Reuters reported. The fatal incident came after the girl died of asphyxiation.

Italy is considering legal action against Pfizer Inc after the U.S. drugmaker announced a further cut in coronavirus vaccine deliveries, the country’s Covid-19 special commissioner Domenico Arcuri said on Wednesday. Pfizer told Italy last week that it was cutting its deliveries by 29%.

Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte survived a crucial Senate confidence vote on Tuesday night, but his coalition government was left weakened after it failed to secure an overall majority, news wires reported. The premier won by 156 votes to 140 in the Senate, the upper chamber, but fell short of the absolute majority of 161.

Procida, a tiny island off Naples, has been crowned Italian Capital of Culture 2022, Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism announced on 18 January.

Italy’s PM Giuseppe Conte has won a crucial confidence vote in Parliament’s lower house on Monday, facing a tougher Senate test on Tuesday, news wires reported.

Italian PM Giuseppe Conte's political future is at stake as he faces a vote of confidence in the larger chamber of parliament on Monday, following a breakdown of government alliances. If he survives the vote in the Chamber of Deputies, the next hurdle awaits him on Tuesday: another vote in the Senate, the smaller chamber. The 56-year-old needs the approval of both chambers to pass the vote. If he fails, his administration could be forced out of office,dpa noted.

Italy is tightening its coronavirus rules again due to rising case numbers, designating three areas as so-called red zones on Sunday, Health Minister Roberto Speranza announced. In the new red zones - Lombardy, Sicily and the autonomous province of Bolzano - people were ordered not to leave their homes if possible, except to go to work, buy groceries or for other urgent reasons.

Almost a million people in Italy have received the vaccine against Covid-19, the latest figures published by the Health Ministry show. Up until 15 January, a total of 972,099 vaccinations are reported as having been administered to people in Italy, or 69% of the doses that had been delivered by that date.

Italian ex-premier and centrist Italia Viva (IV) leader Matteo Renzi on Wednesday opened a government crisis by announcing that party’s two ministers were quitting PM Giuseppe Conte's administration, ANSA reported.

Italy's largest mafia trial in more than 30 years begins on Wednesday, as prosecutors hope to strike a blow to the 'Ndrangheta crime syndicate, whose tentacles reach worldwide, AFP reported.