ROME - The sale of two warships to the Egyptian Navy has caused much controversy after it was revealed that, not only are Italy selling military vessels to a country with such a poor human rights

  ROME – Acute hunger is set to soar in over 20 countries in the coming months without urgent and scaled-up assistance, warn the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programm

  CARDIFF - Wales have announced a new programme that will allow Welsh university students to go on Erasmus exchanges, even with the UK out of the EU.

  AUGUSTA - After sending five requests to port authorities for a place of safety for the disembarkation of 116 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean, SOS Mediterranee’s Ocean Viking has on Tuesday

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  ROME - On Monday, 9,000 Amazon workers and the 31,000 other employees of the Amazon supply chain in Italy took part in the first ever strike by a country's entire Amazon workforce.

  RIO NEGRO - Marcelo Alejandro Cuenca Revuelta, an Argentinian bishop, has resigned after accusations against him of covering up sexual abuse by priests in his diocese.

  ROME - “Peculiar, volatile and unstable” was how Jan Zahradil, the Czech MEP and Vice Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on International Trade, described the EU’s trading relationship

  ROME –The women in Green Growth Webinar saw women entrepreneurs from Italy and Britain agree that collaboration between various industries and between men and w

  ROME -The Italian Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MIPAAF) has announced its support for the candidature of the ‘Italian coffee rite’ for UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list.

  VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has launched a strong appeal for peace in Myanmar, saying in his general audience, “I too

  NAPLES - Water is life. From the first page of the Holy Scripture, water is the element in which the Holy Spirit dwells.

  ROME - Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, has accused the Italian government of acting like a “third world country” after the Council of State, the body that monitors the legal

  ROME - Nearly 200,000 people in Italy having missed their vaccination appointment after the government announced the suspension of the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine throughout the country.

  AUCKLAND - Team New Zealand have beaten the Italian yacht Luna Rossa to win the America's Cup, the oldest international sporting trophy in the world, for the second time in a row. The Kiwis won t

  ROME - Nearly three months after the UK’s messy departure from the European Union, thousands of British nationals living in Italy are still facing the co

  NAYPYITAW – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned of rising food and fuel prices as the current political unrest in Myanmar starts to impac

 ROME – Amid widespread bloodletting at the FAO, as Chinese director general Qu Dongyu ruthlessly consolidates his position, the future of Republican-backed Deputy Director General Beth Bechdol evi

 ROME -- Three FAO assistant director generals,Hiroto Mitsugi from Japan, Bukar Tijani from Nigeria and glamorous Ms Dilek Macit from Turkey have been forced to resign from their lucrative sinecure

  ROME – Spanish FAO executive Rodrigo de la Puerta, who three years ago was banished to the UN agency's sleepy Brussels office, has made a remarkable comeback as director of a recently created Log

 ROME – The Mauritanian Food and Agriculture Organization Assistant Director General, Ahmed ould Abdelassam, brought in as a safe pair of hands to run the 32 countries in the Near East operation of

  TRAPANI - Four migrant rights defenders from the 'Iuventa' search and rescue ship have been charged by prosecutors in Sicily for "aiding and abetting illegal immigration to Italy".