CUZCO -- From the city of Cuzco, where the Inca culture was subjugated by the Spanish conqueror, I am watching how the world inexorably leads to a different measure of history.

 ROME -- The joint military manoeuvres between the Russian and Chinese navies, armies and air forces have kicked off.

 VATICAN CITY-- Pope Francis has always been at pains to distance mainstream religions from religiously motivated violence.

 ROME -- Far from being a novel occurrence, the upcoming constitutional referendum falls in line with other attempts in the last decades to

 ROME -- The media are increasingly reporting events in a basic manner, and have by and large abandoned the process of deep analysis. Now is the moment to focus our attention on terrorism.

 ROME -- The Syrian refuge crisis has developed within recent years to become an international crisis, due to the huge spread of refugees re

 ROME -- William Shakespeare would have loved to witness the Brexit.

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 ROME -- When it comes to trying to understand the issues surrounding “Brexit,”—migration, sovereignty, taxes, competitiveness—it seems that

 ROME -- Marco Pannella, the radical Italian politician and civil rights campaigner, has died at the age of 86 after numerous health problems in recent years.  Pannella was best known fo

 ROME - A new spectre is haunting the world.

 ISTANBUL -- At the moment Turkey is in the news for all the wrong reasons . . .

 ROME -- Piazza Venezia is not only the very heart of Rome, it is also the very centre of Italy.

 NAPLES -- The church is in the center of the town of Ave Maria in Florida. It dominates the main piazza like a European Cathedral, a Duomo, and it faces Ave Maria University.

 ROME - The recent Brussels massacre has created a short term reaction, which ignores a long term projection.

 NEW YORK -- Transparency International, the anti-corruption NGO, is a household name in

 ROME -- The last formal act of European disintegration was the last negotiation between 28 European leaders and the Prime Minister of Turkey.

 NEW YORK -- In the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria’s president, promised constitutional reforms.

 ROME -- We are witnessing the slow agony of the dream of European integration, disintegrating without a single demonstration occurrin

 CAGLIARI - The occupied Palestinian territories are witnessing  growing individual armed operations known as the 'knife rebellion' - an expr