ROME -- Two respected senior women in the top team at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)  from Holland and Norway resigned suddenly this week after challenging the “top he

  SANA'A - The Executive Director of the UN World Food Programme issued an urgent plea for peace in Yemen and called for funding to help the most vulnerable hungr

  ROME – Starting in June, Italy will be the first European country to take on production of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, and will hope to produce 10 million doses by the end of the yea

  VATICAN CITY - In his first general audience since returning from Iraq, Pope Francis spoke about the damage he saw caused by extremism in the country, and the affect on the Christian po

  KERKENNEH - At least 39 people have died, including four young children, after a ship carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Tunisia.

  BARI - Athmane Touami, a 36 year old Algerian thought to be a member of Islamic State, has been issued with a detention order on suspicion of providing fake documents to the gunmen in t

  RUTSHURU - Williams Mulahya Hassan Hussein, the magistrate investigating the death of Italian Ambassador to the Congo Luca Attanasio, was h

 One of my most vivid memories of John Fullerton, from when I met him while covering the Lebanese civil war, was his graphic description of the ferocious lice he encountered while working in Afghan

  ROME - The Vatican and the Republic of Azerbaijan have renewed an agreement on the restoration and enhancement of the Catacombs of Comodilla, in Garbatella.

  ROME - Pope Francis’ 33th international visit began on Friday when at 7:35 a.m. he departed Fiumicino airport for Iraq.

  ROME - Italy has blocked the shipment of 250,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca Covid vaccine to Australia, according to diplomatic sources, making use of the new rules introduced by the EU to b

  ROME - Pressure has mounted on former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to cut his ties with Saudi Arabia following ANSA’s interview with the fiancee of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist as

  ROME - In the latest QS World University Rankings the Sapienza University of Rome was judged the best in the world for Classics and Ancient History, beating both Oxford and Cambridge, with the Sc

  ROME – As part of a project organized by the UN refugee agency (UNHCR), 24 Italian universities on Wednesday opened the application call for refugees living in Ethiopia to complete a master’s deg

  NORFOLK, VIRGINIA — With her departure on the morning

  RAGUSA - Four men are being investigated by Sicilian prosecutors for allegedly bring 27 migrants to shore in exchange for a sum of money, judicial sources said Tuesday.

  ROME - Almost 80 years after he saved the life of a child, the family of an British soldier are trying to find the Italian girl from the story he so often told, reported Il Fatto Quotidiano on Tu

   VALLETTA, Malta — Representatives of Conf PMI Italia have met with Maltese ministers to discuss a discuss the basis for for the future of business collaboration between the island and Italian co

  ROME - Italy have now stretched their run of defeats in the Six Nations Championship to 30 matches after losing to Ireland 48-10.

  TRIESTE - On charges of ‘aiding illegal immigration’, Italian police forces have searched the house of migrant rights defenders Lorena Fornasir and Gian Andrea Franchi, according to humanitarian

  ROME – Some 30 years on from the Kuwait war, “a lot of things have changed for the better”, but there is still a long way to go for peace in the region, according to William Spencer, the Executiv

ROME -- Scientists from Italy and Switzerland have found fossilised footprints belonging to a prehistoric reptile resembling a giant crocodile that lived in what are now the western Alps some 250 m