ROME – The Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, has become embroiled in a brewing Italian corruption scandal, with allegations that he sent 3.5 million euros to finance the Italian political party

ROME – ‘AstraZeneca’, a science-led biopharmaceutical company based in the UK, has reached an agreement with Europe’s ‘Inclusive Vaccines Alliance’ (IVA) to supply up to 400 million doses of the Un

VATICAN CITY – For the Angelus from St Peter’s Square, Pope Francis urged the international community to strive to restore peace in Libya, and said that he hoped a path would be forged towards peac

BENGHAZI – A Greek frigate called the ‘Spetsai’, under Italian command, tried to intercept a merchant ship bound for Libya, but a military vessel sent from Ankara intervened as tensions spiked in t

SÃO PAULO – While Europe slowly recovers from the most devastating pandemic of the century, for Brazil recovery is still but a distant concept.

ROME – The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luigi Di Maio, has said that assessments are being made on the agreed sale of two frigates, the ‘Spartaco Schergat’ and the ‘Emilio Bianchi’, to be s

“If Hong Kong's role in connecting China to the rest of the world no longer exists, it will be the end of Hong Kong,” said Dalù, a journalist whose brave defiance of the CCP (Chinese Communist Part

BRINDISI – Enel, the Italian energy company operating in over 30 countries worldwide, have begun the process of decarbonisation with the announcement the closure of one of the four coal-fired group

VALLETTA – Four private vessels are stranded outside Maltese territorial waters with 400 rescued people on board, in what have effectively become offshore detention centers, as chaos in the Mediter

ATHENS – Italian tourists arriving in Greece from the Italian regions of Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto, will be subject to swabs and a quarantine of a minimum of seven days, according

ROME – The socio-economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean could potentially leave around 14 million vulnerable people in severe food insecurity in 2020, amounting

ROME – The United States remains “fully engaged” in the UN Food and Agriculture Organization as the largest single contributor despite owing the UN agency as much as dlrs 46 million in arrears, a s

ROME – Sant'Egidio, the lay Catholic association dedicated to social causes, registered their alarm on Monday, on Africa Day, over the reduction in aid due to the coronavirus crisis at a time when

TRIPOLI – On Sunday night the Libyan ‘Government of National Accord’ seized the strategic military base of Al Watyia from General Khalifa Haftar’s rebel forces, and following this are now close to

TRIPOLI – The rebel forces of General Khalifa Haftar launched an attack in Tripoli on Thursday evening at around 11 p.m., in the area of the residence of the Italian ambassador to Libya, according

 TRIPOLI – Smoke billowed and fire raged late on Wednesday evening, after blasts at the Air Force Academy airport in the city of Misurata, Libya, located significantly close to the compound of the

ROME – Although the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) has been all but destroyed, there still exists a significant number of active ISIS clusters and tens of thousands of potentially radicalised youth

TORRE SALSA – Migrants from Africa landed on Sicily and left their vessel on the beach to flee inland, with the local authroities activated to find them having tracked down 29 of the suspected 50 t

CARTAGENA – Thousands of lambs were loaded on to a transport ship for a 10 day trip from Spain to Saudi Arabia, where they will arrive on May 6 in the port of Jeddah, according to Animal Equality w

ABU DHABI – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) have launched in partnership with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) based in Rome, an international air operation that will provide a lifeline

ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has kick-started a network of global logistical hubs with the departure on Thursday of a cargo plane carrying almost 16 metric tons of medical c

ROME – As coronavirus pushes up levels of hunger, 370 million children are at risk due to school closures which deprive them of school meals, according to The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has written a letter which pays homage to over 100 street newspapers around the world that give work and income to more than 20,500 homeless people, and expressed his so

  Beppe Zaccaria, who has died at age 69, was a star foreign correspondent for la Stampa newspaper covering the Balkans and the Middle East with distinction throu

ROME – The most fragile members of society, such as the homeless, refugees, and those who live in precarious conditions, are at tangible risk of becoming infected with the coronavirus, and neglecti