BOLOGNA – After four years of competitions, hundreds of selection events and over 3500 participants from five continents, the results of the world final of Gelato Festival World Masters

 JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s government has been rocked by a chorus of protest over its decision to drop its former officially endorsed candidate to head the IL

 MYTILENE – From the island of Lesbos on the final day of his east Mediterranean visit, Pope Francis spoke out on the migration crisis and denounced Europe’s “walls proposed as a solution

 NICOSIA – Since its founding, Caritas Cyprus’ mission has been the same as that of the Caritas Internationalis confederation - to provide for those in need, protect the vulnerable and gi

 ROME – Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese met with her UK counterpart, Home Secretary Priti Patel in the Viminale Palace to discuss illegal migration and ways to tackle criminal

 ROME -- South Korean former foreign minister Kang Kyung-wha has stepped up campaigning to become head of the International Labour Organization against strong riv

LARNACA – Pope Francis has landed in Cyprus, the first leg of his eastern Mediterranean pastoral visit that also is scheduled to take him to Athens and Lesbos, papal authorities said Thur

ROME – A final report by the parliamentary commission of inquiry on the kidnapping, torture and killing of Cambridge researcher Giulio Regeni has concluded the murder was organised and co

ROME – Food is one the defining issue of our time yet, as we have seen at the recent COP26 climate conference, the people who produce our food are too often missing from global forums tha

 MILAN -- Saipem has signed a new contract with Saudi Aramco on the Jafurah Development Program in Saudi Arabia.

 ROME – After Zambia’s recent election brought in the new government of President Hakainde Hichilema with a landslide majority, the country is replete with opportun

 ROME -French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian President Sergio Mattarella signed the Quirinal Treaty Thursday, which aims to build a ‘stronger and more structured link’ between Ital

ROME --Street artist Laika put up a new artwork during Wednesday night to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on Thursday.

 ROME --The state visit of the Italian President Sergio Mattarella to Algiers, has reportedly achieved all its objectives, thanks to the warm welcome given to him by his counterpart, Abde

ROME -- Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini met with United Kingdom Defense Secretary Ben Wallace in the Eternal City on Wednesday, government sources said.  The two Ministers shared great c

 ROME -- A voice and figure from the Eternal City to a Croatian audience for 37 years, journalist Silvije Tomašević, who has died at the age of 71, was a highly respected reporter on the turbulent

 ROME --"Azerbaijan wants to deepen cooperation with the Vatican: we consider it an essential bridge," Azerbaijani Ambassador to the Vatican, Rahman Mustafayev, told journalists at a pres

 ROME – IFAD staff members have lambasted president Gilbert Houngbo, saying that the conflict of interest posed by the former Togolese prime minister’s candidature to become the director general of

 SASSARI - Five unvaccinated people over 60 have been hospitalised with Covid-19 after the virus spread through a group of pilgrims who travelled to Medjugorje in Bosnia and Herzegovina f

 ROME --Adelina Sejdini, an Albanian woman who denounced a number of her country’s prostitution mafia mobsters, has committed suicide after struggling to obtain Italian citizenship, polic

ROME – “Obstructionism” by World Food Programme officials using diplomatic immunity to reject summons to give evidence to magistrates is hindering Italian investigators trying to determine responsb