VATICAN CITY – Pro-Kurdish protesters and police scuffled near the CastelSantAngelo Monday, police said, as Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Pope Francis in an audience, making the first visit of a Tu

ROME – Jihadst extremists draw from only a very narrow range of the Koran and marginalise key concepts such as prayer, fasting and preaching, two top analysts at the Tony Blair Institute for Gl

ROME – Scholars from the Polytechnic University of Turin have finally begun the search for hidden chambers in the tomb of Tutankhamun, after the Egyptian government delayed the decision for a year.

ROME – Father Firas Lutfi, Superior of the Franciscan College of the Holy Land in Aleppo, has called for a greater international effort to be focused on the rehabilitation of children born under IS

ROME – Italian Prime Minister, Paolo Gentiloni, has intervened in the debate over the location of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), urging the European Union to reconsider Milan's bid.

ROME – SOS Mediterranee reported that they saved 98 people from a deflating rubber boat in international waters on a day in which they also clashed with the Libyan coastguard aboard their vessel Aq

   SREMSKI KARLOVCI -- Go to Serbia, to Belgrade.

ROME - The charred and dismembered corpse of Giuseppe De Stefani, a 62 year old from Sondrio was found in Thailand.

ROME - The vibrancy of Beirut's art scene is on full display at Rome's MAXXI museum until May 2018, in a sprawling show that tackles the themes of place, conflict and memory.

ROME - The Italian Insider spoke to Cinzia Bianco, senior researcher at the Euro Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) about the motivation and possible consequences of increasing the Italian military pre

ROME - Italy has announced plans to increase the number of troops in Libya and Tunisia.

ROME - The CALG (Coalition against Land Grabbing) and the CFDT (French Democratic Confederation of Labour) are to host a conference centered around the question: “is sustainable palm oil possible?”

VENICE - Approaching the top lit podium, a man extends an uneasy hand as another watches tensely.

 ROME - Among Bloomberg’s many profitable activities is a convenient Bloomberg Billionaires Index that has just published its findings for 2017.

ROME – The World Food Programme boosted its income by up to dlrs 1 billion last year as the UN agency retained “strong support” in the United States while Britain, Germany and the EU also are stepp

 ROME – On Dec.20, Europe’s 28 Ministers of Environment met in Brussels

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis issued a heartfelt Christmas Day appeal for peace in Jerusalem and the Holy Land Monday, calling for “peaceful co-existence of two States” in an Urbi et Orbi address tha

CANBERRA - The Royal Commission into the Institutional Responses of Child Sexual Abuse has undertaken the important tasks of investi