VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis received in audience the President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda on Friday in the Vatican Apostolic Palace, said the Holy See Press Office.

 TRIPOLI – An overcrowded boat which departed several days ago from the Libyan coast was shipwrecked in international waters leaving 90 dead and only four survivors, said NGO Doctors With

 ROME -- The European Union's anti-fraud unit, OLAF, has concluded its investigation into possible conflict of interest and nepotism by former FAO assistant director general, Roberto Ridolfi, and h

TARANTO – Italian Rear Admiral Fabrizio Rutteri has taken over from the Greek Rear Admiral Michail Magkos the Command Authority of the European Joint Force operating in the Central Medite

 DONETSK – An Italian soldier who fought with pro-Russian separatists in the Donbass region of Ukraine was killed when he allegedly flung himself on a hand grenade to protect his comrades

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis addressed especially warm greetings to the Ukrainian children at the end of the Wednesday’s general audience, as told by the Ansa news agency.

ROME – Vladimir Putin feels "the time is not right" to speak to Zelensky said the Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi in a press conference Thursday, one day after his first phone call wi

 KIEV – Italian chef Stefano Antoniolli and his family decided to remain in Ukraine despite the immediate danger posed by the Russian invasion, he told Il Fatto Quotidiano during an inter

 ROME – The Italian public broadcaster Rai News 24 ran its first daily news programme in Ukrainian on Saturday, in service of refugees in Italy and in other European countries, wrote il Fatto Quoti

 ROME -- Veteran Italian television presenter and science journalist Piero Angela has been honoured by Algeria for his work in his youth as a RAI correspondent co

 ROME – The Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (TPC) participated for Italy in Pandora VI, the latest of a series of international operations coordinated by Inter

 VALLETTA – Malta’s Labour party claimed its third consecutive victory at the general elections Saturday, which had a record low turnout for the island, political sources said.

 KIEV – Giulia Schiff, a 23-year-old former air force pilot has enlisted voluntarily to the Special Forces of the International Legion in Ukraine to fight in the

 NAPLES – The eighth criminal section of the city’s Court of Appeal has rejected a request from Russia to extradite Ukrainian director Yevhen Lavrenchuk, who was arrested in Italy on Dec.

 QUARONA, MILAN – Loro Piana, an Italian clothing brand owned by French group LVMH, officially distanced itself from Vladimir Putin after a parka from its latest collection was worn by the Russian

 ROME – The mafia is sure to be making money from the war in Ukraine by selling weapons and other products, according to National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor Federico Cafiero De Raho in an interview with

ROME – The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a speech to the Italian parliament on Tuesday morning, after which Prime Minister Mario Draghi emphasised "Italy wants Ukraine

 BRESCIA – Two German tourists who killed an Italian couple when they drunkenly crashed a motorboat into the pair’s small rowing boat on Lake Garda, have been sentenced to several years i

 ROME – The Italian engineering and defence multinational Leonardo S.p.A.

AJACCIO – Following weeks of separatist protests, the French government has indicated that it is willing to discuss autonomy for the first time, prompted by the need to address an increas

 ROME – Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and the Italian Foreign Ministry have stood up for Defence Minister Lorenzo Guerini, after a Russian government figure called him “a hawk in the anti-Rus

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis issued another passionate appeal Sunday f