ROME--As a young reporter in Lebanon, Richard Beeston faced down an execution squad and at one point found himself given honourary command of a company of Muslim militiamen.
KABUL – Border disputes with Pakistan and Iranian meddling in the country’s internal affairs have recently shifted the focus of Afghans' criticism closer to home.
ROME -- Harry Shindler, the leader of British war veterans in Italy, has failed to overturn the ban on expatriates voting in UK elections once they have lived abroad for more than 15 years.
LONDON – Italy’s continuing “illegal” discrimination against British lecturers working in Italian universities is “wholly unacceptable” the UK Foreign Office says.
ROME - Prime Minister delegate Enrico Letta conferred with President Napolitano Saturday over his cabinet as horsetrading between the Democratic Party and Freedom Alliance over key jobs continued.
ROME– A self-syled secret agent who claims he helped kidnap Vatican schoolgirl Emanuela Orlandi was convicted for killing in 1983 the son of a Uruguayan official at the UN food agency IFAD, police
ROME - Finnish ambassador Petri Tuomi-Nikula gave praise and appreciation to the participants of the B2B meeting, with special recognition to the operators of the Italian travel tr
ROME-- Holding elections in Mali in July "is going to be difficult", given the large number of displaced people and the adverse climate conditions, but "we have to organize what has become a fragmented society", UN special envoy for the Sahel, Romano Prodi, told Foreign Affairs Committee MEPs on Monday 8th.
ROME -- Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi resigned Tuesday, saying he opposed bowing to India over the trial of two Italian marines accused of shooting Indian fishermen.
ROME -- Foreign lecturers have urged the Irish Government to use its upcoming EU presidency to help end discrimination based on nationality in Italian universities.
ROME – Italy’s new Parliament speaker Laura Boldrini has won legions of admirers, including foreign correspondents hoping she may follow the example of her predecessor Luciano Violante.
ROME -- VIP guests and senior diplomats gathered at the smart Excelsior Hotel on the Via Veneto to celebrate Kuwait's national day with the ambassador of the Emirate, Sheikh Jaber Dnaij Al-Ibrahim
ROME - 10 Feb was the “Day of Remembrance” (Giorno del ricordo) in which Italy remembers the Italians either killed or forced to leave Yugoslavia at the end of World War II.
REYHANLI, TURKEY -As the Assad regime continues to conduct air strikes on rebel-held medical facilities, Syrian doctors across the border are hindered by government and banking regulations.
ROME -Organisers of a "Xmas Concert for Syrian Children" in St Stephen’s School are being investigated by a relief group following allegations they are close to Syria's Government, a spokesman said
Just in time for the holidays and gifts shopping season, the European Commission has published the results of an EU-wide screening of websites selling games, books, videos and music which can be do
ROME- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is gearing up to face the traditional “hunger season” in southern Africa, made worse by recent droughts.
ROME - The work of Elisabetta Valgiusti, a documentary on Egypt’s Copt Christians, has been shown to an intimate audience at the Chamber of the Deputies.
TARANTO – Royal Navy sailors aboard the carrier HMS Illustrious were breaking out the rum Sunday to celebrate Taranto Day, anniversary of the 1940 destruction of Italy's fleet, Navy sources said.
VATICAN CITY – Evidently bowing to conservative bishops' pressure, Pope Benedict XVI transferred Archbishop Joe Tobin from Rome to head the archdiocese of Indianapolis.
ROME – Disregarding criticism from OECD countries, FAO Director General Jose Graziano declared that promoting food cooperatives is one effective way to generate food security.
