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Fire brigade teams scour the Piedmont region in the northwest Italy after heavy rain triggered extensive flooding. Across the border in Switzerland's southwest, two people have died and a third is missing after torrential rains caused a landslide, police said on Sunday. IMAGES
The leader of the Italy's "Five Star Movement" (M5S) and former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte votes in Rome in the parliamentary elections, which, according to the polls, are likely be won by the far right. While it was Italy's largest party four years ago with 32% of the vote, the M5S is now only predicted to take 10 to 13% of the vote. IMAGES
The leader of Italy's 'Five Star Movement' and former Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, casts his vote in Rome during the country's legislative elections. Polls show the far-right 'Brothers of Italy' party, led by Giorgia Meloni, leading and looking set to form a coalition government with Matteo Salvini's anti-immigration 'League' and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's 'Forza Italia'. IMAGES
A nurse was arrested in Palermo, Sicily, for pretending to administer a Covid-19 vaccine to consenting patients, in particular to two spouses. In the video surveillance images, the nurse empties the content of a syringe into a gauze before giving the injection. IMAGES
Two protests, one organised by political groups and one organised by bar and restaurant owners, take place in Rome against the government's introduction of restrictions on unvaccinated people. The Green Pass, which is an extension of the EU's digital Covid certificate, will be required from August 6 to enter cinemas, museums, indoor swimming pools or sports stadiums, or eat indoors at restaurants. IMAGES
Italians walk without masks in Rome as the whole country becomes a "low-risk" zone for Covid-19, marking a dramatic milestone for the first European country to be hit by the global pandemic in February 2020. IMAGES