REGGIO CALABRIA – Three days on from the death of Soumayla Sacko, the 29-year-old Malian who was shot dead on Saturday at San Calogero, police have singled out a 43-year-old suspect. 

ROME – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Nepal have agreed to invest US$68.1 million to significantly improve incomes and food security for 35,000 rural farming househo

ROME – A fundraising event took place on Tuesday at the South African Embassy in Rome to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the birth of former president Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the founding

ROME – A distinguished delegation of Chinese government officials, representatives from Italy, several African countries and the United Nations, participated in a workshop on Tuesday, aimed at boos

ROME – Interior Minister Matteo Salvini claimed victory on Tuesday after several European countries stood up against the proposed reforms of the Dublin Regulation at an EU justice and home affairs

ROME – The League reacted furiously on Monday to accusations from billionaire financier and philanthropist, George Soros, that the far-right Italian party may be financed by the Kremlin, political

ROME – Sant’Egidio, a Christian community spanning 70 countries worldwide, has led calls on Monday for collective European intervention to put an end to the “unacceptable” deaths of migrant childre

ROME – Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini reopened his criticism of the EU’s migration policies on Monday, demanding help from Europe to secure Italian borders and informing them that his ant

ROME – Fierce tension between Italy’s incoming M5S-League government and the European Union escalated on Friday after European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker characterised Italians as laz

ROME - The Thursday forum hosted by Mediatrends, centred around a discussion titled “The challenge of regional emigration in America.”

 ROME - Wednesday morning saw the arrival of a new group of refugees in Rome.

MILAN – The spread between Italy’s 10-year BTP bond and the German Bund was sharply cut to 261 basis points on Wednesday whilst Italian prime minister designate Carlo Cottarelli struggled to establ

ROME - CCTV footage and the minutes of new hearings by the nine police officers involved in the investigations into the torture and murder of Giulio Regeni were released and handed over to Rome pro

ROME – Cardinal Toribio Ticona Porco, one of the new princes of the Church appointed by Pope Francis, is facing a wave of criticism in his native country of Bolivia for allegedly having a wife and

ROME - The president of the EGIC Dr. Mitchell Belfer called for people to wake up and “deal with the reality” of what is happening in the Middle East.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis announced the promotion of 14 new Catholic cardinals, who’ll be officially appointed at his next consistory on June 29, Vatican officials confirm.

VERONA – A young Pakistani resident of Verona, who was forced to have an abortion by her family, has been freed in a police blitz, officials say.

VATICAN CITY – Chilean bishops involved in a national sexual abuse scandal have all offered their resignations to Pope Francis, Vatican officials say.