ROME – The Vatican is watching nervously as German bishops meet in Fulda, central Germany, to debate and launch a campaign of change for the Catholic Church in Germany.

 ROME – Ramon Cristobal Santoyo, a main director of cocaine smuggling from Mexico to the USA, has been arrested at Rome’s Fiumicino airport, reports Il Messaggero.

 MESSINA – The Italian authorities gave permission Sunday for 182 migrants to disembark from the Ocean Viking at the port of Messina, Sicily.

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 ROME – Support is growing for reform to the Dublin Regulation ahead of a meeting of EU leaders in Malta on Sept.

 ROME – Italian universities have done well in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings. 

 ROME – Pakistani Ambassador to Italy H.E.

 HELSINKI – On the second day of the Informal Meeting of Ministers for Economic and Financial Affairs (Ecofin), Sep. 14, the ministers discussed energy taxation and also EU fiscal rules.

 ROME – President of France Emmanuel Macron is arrived in Rome on Wednesday for talks with Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte.  The discussions focussed on the issue of migration.

 ROME – UNHCR announced 18 September that the winner of the 2019 Nansen Refugee Award for Europe would be the Italian organisation Humanitarian Corridors.

 ROME — After what now looks like the token axeing of the FAO HR director for alleged serial sex harassment, the new Chinese supremo at the UN poverty-busting agency seems to be following in the fo

 ROME – Italy’s new Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio has hit back at his Hungarian counterpart who described as ‘deplorable and dangerous” the 'Conte Two' government’s decision to dock the NGO Ocean

 ROME -- A conference on modern slavery will be held at Marymount School on Friday Sept. 27. Details can be found at the following link:

 PALERMO – Three people accused of kidnapping, trafficking and torturing refugees in Libya, have been arrested in Messina, Sicily, after being identified by their victims, local authorities said on

 ROME - The Republic of San Marino has seized 19 million euros from Denis Sassou Nguesso, the dictator of the Republic of the Congo.  This follows an investiga

 ROME – As the Ocean Viking migrant rescue ship awaits a green light for a safe port to dock, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is confident of a “prompt solution” following his meeting with Eu

 BERLIN – Germany’s support for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is crucial for continued assistance to millions of Syrians inside and outside the country, said the UN

 NAPLES – A top Chinese model has had two and a half million dollars’ worth of jewellery stolen while a wedding guest in Capri.

 ROME – The Ocean Viking migrant-rescue ship carrying 84 migrants "must enter, no ifs or buts," Democratic Party (PD) leader Nicola Zingaretti said in a television interview late on Tuesday, when a

 NAPLES – Not only are Rome’s relations with Moscow being tested over the arrest in Italy of a Russian executive suspected of industrial espionage, the case marks one of the first challenges facing

 ROME – The Qatari Ambassador to Italy, H.E.

 LAMPEDUSA – The Italian coastguard has seized migrant rescue ship Mare Jonio, currently anchored at the island of Lampedusa, Interior Ministry sources said on Tuesday.

 VATICAN CITY – Delayed for his weekly Angelus prayers after being trapped in an elevator, Pope Francis named 13 new cardinals who will become "princes of the Church" in October, Vatican sources sa