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During her first official visit to India, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni showed full support to India's G20 Presidency and called PM Modi as the ‘most loved leader’ in the world. She also praised India's stance on Russia-Ukraine crisis

Silivio Berlusconi, who has made personal comebacks a hallmark of Italian politics for three decades, was re-elected to Italy’s upper house with more than 50% of the votes Sunday in the northern city of Monza, where he also owns a soccer team that was recently promoted to Italy’s top division.

The UN's special rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery estimated in 2018 that more than 400,000 agricultural workers in Italy risk being exploited and almost 100,000 likely face inhumane conditions

The lifting of the mask requirement would come into effect in regions labelled 'white' under Italy's classification system

The new decree would go into effect starting Monday and could send many regions, including those surrounding Milan and Rome, into full lockdownThe new measures could mean that as many as 14 of Italy’s 20 regions will be under the strictest level of controls

Italy was the first Western country to be hit by the virus and has seen 51,306 COVID-19 fatalities since its outbreak emergedThe northern region of Lombardy, centred on Italy's financial capital Milan, remained the hardest hit area on Tuesday, reporting 4,886 new cases

Conte also said that Italy would promote the deployment of clean and efficient technologies during its presidency

Patients categorized as suffering from less severe Covid-19 cases now occupy half of Italian hospital bedsItaly currently has 3,422 patients in ICUs, still below the early April peak of more than 4,000

Italy is expected to spend additional 2.5 billion euros with the additional spending programThe country’s budget assumes that gross domestic product could shrink by 10.5% this year in a worst-case scenario

Italy's 60 million residents will be required to stay home from 10:00 pm until 5:00 am except for work or health reasonsItaly was the first European country hit by coronavirus and has so far reported almost 760,000 cases, and more than 39,400 deaths