VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis, frustrated by ill health that led him to cancel a July trip to Africa, is considering resigning from St.

 ROME -- Chinese media hailed the opening this week of the new IFAD East and Southern Africa regional office, underlining Beijing’s interest in using the UN agency and its development projects as a

 ROME – According to the Moscow diplomatic office in Italy, the Russian embassy "assisted Matteo Salvini and the people who accompanied him in the purchase of airline tickets" to Moscow, which were

ROME – Italy’s Democratic Party (PD), came out on top at local elections on Sunday, as the far right wing 'post-Fascist' party, Brothers of Italy, gained momentum, fuelling its leader, Giorgia Melo

PERUGIA – The Court of Appeal of Perugia exonerated the defendants accused of kidnapping Alma Shalabayeva on Thursday, after more than nine years of investigation and almost ten hours in the counci

NAPLES - Ed Llewellyn, the new British ambassador to Italy, held his first Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth II at Villa Doria d’Angri after three years of pandemic cancellations.

STOCKHOLM – The Western film and television industry’s “entrenched and closed off” nature toward diverse representation can contribute to radicalisation of second and third generation migrants from

 ROME – The father of the Italian ambassador killed in Congo while travelling in a WFP convoy has called the UN agency “immoral” for insisting its’ employees, who are under investigation in Italy o

 ROME – IFAD’s upcoming presidential election may leave the development bank for small farmers vulnerable to manipulation by China, increasing Beijing’s control o

 NAIROBI -- IFAD presidential candidate Raychelle Omamo, the Kenyan foreign minister, frequently has hit headlines in the Kenyan capital Nairobi in the past for h

 ROME – Italy’s education ministry, seeking to head off EU infringement proceedings for decades of racist discrimination against UK and other foreign university lecturers, has ordered Italian unive

 ROME –  Kenya’s foreign minister, Rachelle Awuor Omamo, has emerged as the front runner to become the next president of IFAD, and the first woman to hold the post, after Western donor countries ye

 MONTE CASSINO – Polish veterans of the battle of Monte Cassino and officials from Warsaw have attended solemn ceremonies to mark the 78th anniversary of the Allied victory, in which the final assa

 ROME – Five little known candidates, each from a different continent, have thrown their hats in the ring to succeed Togolese kingpin Gilbert Houngbo as the president of the International Fund for

 ROME -- Scores of members of the Ukrainian community in Italy have staged a protest outside the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), calling for Russia to be expelled from

 ROME -- Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune will make a two-day state visit to Italy next week, underlining Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi's efforts to

 ROME - The English Theatre of Rome presents NSFW, by Lucy Kirkwood, directed by and with Daniel Roy Connelly, produced by Gaby Ford, from May 20 at the Teatro Arciliuto.  

 ROME – FAO’s Ombudswoman is investigating complaints that the UN agency abusively is obliging staff and their spouses and children to produce Covid-19 vacc

 ROME -- The International Fund for Agriculture and Development is remaining tight-lipped over the identity of candidates to replace Togolese Gilbert Houngbo as president of the poverty-busting org

 ALESSANO – Zambian Chargé d’Affaires Silumelume Mubukwane attended a solemn ceremony in this Apulian town twinning it with the Zambian town of Chavuma.

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis smiled broadly and cracked a joke when he appeared in a wheelchair in public for the first time Thursday due to a knee problem that h

 ROME – European donor countries eligible to elect the next president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) plan to field a woman candidat

 SARAJEVO – Italian artist Luigi Ballarin is in the Bosnian capital for the first time with the "Magnificent Architectures" exhibition.

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis, celebrating Easter Sunday in St Peter's Square, said that the world needs Christ more than ever amidst the "cruel and senseless" wa

 ROME – Amir Abdulla, the World Food Programme deputy executive director and reputed head of the ‘old guard’ at the UN agency, will retire from the organization in June, it has been announced, clim