ROME – Democratic Party (PD) secretary Nicola Zingaretti and former DP leader Matteo Renzi have come to the defence of new Minister for Agriculture Teresa Bellanova after she was attacked on socia

 ROME – Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and his new brood of Cabinet ministers were sworn in by the head of state, Sergio Mattarella, at the Quirinal Palace, on Thursday.

 ROME – After the positive results of the Five Star Movement’s Rousseau vote, Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte formally told President Sergio Mattarella Wednesday that he has reached agreement

  ROME – Around 30,000 Five Star Movement (M5S) members have already voted on the birth of a new government with the Democratic Party (PD), led by Giuseppe Conte, political sources said on Tuesday.

 VATICAN CITY – Delayed for his weekly Angelus prayers after being trapped in an elevator, Pope Francis named 13 new cardinals who will become "princes of the Church" in October, Vatican sources sa

 ROME - Pope Francis is leaving on 4 September for a trip to Africa in which he is visiting Mozambique, Madagascar and Mauritius.

 VENICE – Jury president of the 76^th Venice Film Festival Lucrecia Martel supports the controversial inclusion of Roman Polanski in the competition but will not attend a dinner organised

 ROME – Nicola Zingaretti, leader of the Democratic Party, has made official his party’s agreement to a second government under Giuseppe Conte, after meeting with President Sergio Mattarella, polit

 ROME - The Five Star Movement and Democratic Party resumed talks Tuesday afternoon on finding an arrangement that would allow them to form a coalition government, according to political sources. 

 ROME – 10 September marks the opening of the “Living Memory” exhibition at the Historical Museum in Cassino. 

 ROME – The Democratic Party and Five Star Movement were still discussing the possibility of a coalition ahead of Tuesday’s second round of consultations with President Sergio Mattarella.  

 ROME – Maintenance works for the city’s subway Metro A have officially ended and the entire line, including the section from Battistini to Termini, is now back to normal. But from Sept.

 VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis called for the “vital lungs” of the planet - the Amazon forest - to be saved, at his Angelus on Sunday.

 VATICAN CITY – It has been suggested that there is a plot to engineer Pope Francis’ resignation. 

 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.

 VATICAN CITY - In a brief statement on Wednesday the Holy See has "acknowledged" an Australian court's decision to reject Cardinal George Pell's appeal against a six-year prison sentence for sexua

 ROME -- Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced his resignation at the end of a speech to Parliament Tuesday explaining why his coalition Government couldn't continue.

 ROME - The granddaughter of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini is protesting against the closure of her Facebook account and asking for its reactivation.

 ROME - The Open Arms rescue ship, stranded in the Mediterranean for 18 days, has been offered a safe port in Spain, a decision the NGO has slammed as “incomprehensible.” 

ROME - The parents of Italian PhD student Giulio Regeni, who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Egypt in 2016, launched Monday an online petition demanding that It

ROME – The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Rome is wrapping up its investigation against a Vatican clergyman accused of sexual abuse against young altar boys.