ROME - The Open Arms ship has finally landed at Lampedusa.  All 81 migrants remaining on board have disembarked, following Agrigento prosecutor Luigi Patronaggio’s decision to seize the ship.

 ROME — FAO staff and consultants paid tribute Monday at their headquarters to former director general Jacques Diouf, who died last week-end at age 81.

ROME - Technology company Leonardo announced the sale of five helicopters valued at nearly 30 million euros while at the Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (LABACE), held

 GENEVA – Protecting and restoring forests and urgently revamping the global food system through dietary change are the key solutions to the escalating land and climate crisis, an authoritative UN

 ROME– The United Nations World Food Programme welcomes important, positive steps taken by the Sana’a-based authorities on safeguards to ensure humanitarian food assistance reaches

 ROME – Amid the standoff between Italian, Maltese and Spanish authorities that has left 121 migrants stranded at sea in searing temperatures, Amnesty International is calling for Italy and Malta t

 ROME – Kidnapped Italian aid worker Silvia Romano had filed a complaint against an Anglican pastor accusing him of molesting some girls before she went missing, Il Fatto Quotidiano report

ROME – Finnegan Lee Elder believed he was “the target of an attack,” claiming he was “afraid of being strangled” and that he didn’t know the man he allegedly killed was a Carabiniere paramilitary p

ROME - With nuclear treaties being dismantled and bilateral dialogue unravelling, the danger of a nuclear catastrophe is higher today than it was during the Cold War, a former US defence secretary

LIBYAN COAST - German Sea Eye NGO ship the Alan Kurdi, which rescued 40 migrants off the coast of Libya on Wednesday, is heading towards Lampedusa in defiance of Italian Interior Minister Matteo Sa

ROME – The new Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has vowed to make the agency more dynamic, transparent and inclusive.

ROME – Ethan Elder arrived in Rome to visit his son for the first time Thursday, 19-year-old Californian Finnegan Lee Elder who is accused of murdering a Carabiniere paramilitary policeman last wee

LIBYAN COAST – The Interior Ministry has signed an entry ban preventing German Sea Eye NGO ship the Alan Kurdi, which rescued 40 migrants around 30 miles off the Libya coast on Wednesday m

ROME – Interior Minister Matteo Salvini is giving his blessing for the migrants aboard the Gregoretti Coast Guard vessel moored in Augusta, Sicily, to disembark now that five European coun

SARDINIA – A German arms factory with a production plant in Sardinia and headquarters in Ghedi, in northern Italy, has suspended the export of aircraft bombs to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emi

ROME – The Italian foreign ministry uses hundreds of poorly paid local contractors around the world to carry out strange and delicate ‘missions,’ Il Fatto Quotidiano reports.

ROME – Some six years after the disappearance of Father Paolo Dall’Oglio, the Jesuit priest from Rome who was kidnapped in Syria in 2013, his family insist that he may still be alive and call for f

GENOA – Some 368 kilos of cocaine, which has a market value of over 100 million euros, was seized by undercover police in an internationally co-ordinated operation when the ‘Ndrangheta sailing boat