ROME – The Community of Sant’Egidio will be holding a press conference and welcoming party for 114 refugees arriving from Ethiopia but originally from a number of countries across the Horn of Afric

ROME - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Sudan signed a financing agreement worth dlrs 47.5 million that aims to improve the country’s resilience to climate change and

ROME – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) announced the signing of a new agreement between the UN agency and the government of Saudi Arabia “to help boost agriculture produc

ROME - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) announced that they put together a financing package with the Republic of Tajikistan worth dlrs 39.3 million, in order to “help red

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis was aware of claims of an alleged cover up of paedophilic abuse in Chile by Bishop Juan Barros as early as 2015, having received a letter from one of the abuse victims,

 ROME — The ever-smiling IFAD czar Gilbert Houngbo's new restructuring plan unveiled at a "town hall meeting" a week-end ago purportedly aims at achieving "excellence" but it features a “Pol Pot” s

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

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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?”