ROME – On Friday, the French and Moroccan writer and painter Tahar Ben Jelloun together with artist and the Italian painter Piero Pizzi Cannella, will pay homage

  MERSIN, Turkey -- It’s a winter afternoon at the shore where local fishermen are mending their nets and getting ready for a new expedition.

 ROME - New American air force B61-12 nuclear bombs arrive in Italy, and they will arm the F-35 warplanes stationed at the Ghedi base, military sources say.

 ROME – Syracuse oil refinery has been sold by Russian giant Lukoil to Cyprus stock fund Argus, as reported in the market.

 Ancona – The Ocean Viking vessel has survived the storms and waves 6 meters tall, bringing to safety 37 migrants from Libya, but the other boat, the Geo Barents

 VATICAN CITY -- Australian Cardinal George Pell, an outspoken conservative prelate whose attempt, at request of Pope Francis to reform Vatican finances, was inte

 PALERMO, Sicily – The Governor of Sicily, Renato Schifani, has demanded answers over the outrageous sum of money spent by the regional government to contribute to the Cannes festival. 

 ROME – The United States for two months has been pressing Italy and France to provide Ukraine with the advanced Italo-French Samp-T ground to air missile defence

 ROME -- In a joint statement published on Thursday, 20 aid organisations active in search and rescue, including SOS Humanity, Doctors Without Borders and Sea-Wat

 Brussels - European Union will officially withdraw on January 16th parliamentary immunity, a

 ROME – Mehdi Zare Ashkzari, a 30-year-old Iranian man had left his studies in Bologna to return to Iran to care for his ill mother, where he was then beaten to death by police, media reported.

 GENOA – Rubens’ painting was confiscated due to illegal exportation and money laundering concerns. 

 ROME – The Ndrangheta mafia affiliated group is being hunted down and arrested in both Calabria and New York, police reported on Tuesday.

 ROME – A boat transporting 50 migrants onboard sank ten miles south of Lampedusa, with 43 people currently rescued, and one two-year-old girl found dead, emergency services reported.

ROME -- Antonio Panzeri, former MEP for the Democrats of the Left and president of the ONG “Fight Impute” was arrested last Friday, by Belgian Federal Attorney, together with Niccolò Figà

 LIVORNO - “The ammunition used in Iran to shoot down protesters are Italian” is the motive for the protest on Thursday, in front of the factory that produces them in the Tuscan region, organisers

ROME – Activists gather in front of the UK Embassy on Human Rights Day, to protest the extradition of Julian Assange to the US.