ROME - Net migration into Italy is on the rise. With an increase of 10,000 from the previous year’s 144,000, Italy’s net immigration is up by 8 percent.

DUBAI - The Italian government is proposing that Italian cuisine outside of Italy become UNESCO World Heritage.

ROME - A new data set makes the extent of the threat to the Blue Heart of Europe visible: the dam tsunami has started to roll.

ROME - Italian director, Corrado Franco, wrote an open letter to President Donald Trump after seeing the homeless situation in America while in Los Angeles during the lead up to the Oscars.

ROME - Friday morning will see the International Convention for “A World without the Death Penalty,” in Sant’Egidio.

GARABULLI - In the latest maritime tragedy in the Mediterranean, bodies of at least 30 people have been found off the coast of Libya.

YANGON - Pope Francis landed at Yangon International Airport Monday, beginning his three-day pastoral visit to Myanmar before traveling on to Bangladesh.

ROME - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held the first and only hearing of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s appeal against his ban from holding office.

 ROME-- Running the Anglican Centre in the Eternal City may sound like a quixotic task pursuing elusive ecumenical unity.

BÉZIERS - A painting deemed “inestimable” in value by Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico has been stolen from its home in the Béziers Museum of Fine Art,

ROME - Milan has missed out on its chance to host the European Medical Agency (EMA), which would have led to increased economic prosperity and prestige in the region, as Amsterdam is chos

ROME - Pope Francis said Thursday that "It may be morally permissible to give up or suspend the treatment" when death is inevitable.

ROME – Over 70 email addresses , screenshots of emails and inboxes, photocopies of passports, and police orders in Rome have been leaked by the online activist group, Anonymous, over the weekend.

LUBLJANA - Borut Pahor has been elected for his second term as Slovenia’s President, winning 52.94 percent of the vote.

ROME- Giancarlo Tulliani has been arrested in Dubai following an international warrant issued by the judiciary in Rome.

ROME - Representatives from Commonwealth embassies and militaries, religious groups and citizens of Rome gathered in the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery in Testaccio Friday to pay their

ROME - The European Commission has announced that Italy’s economic recovery is expected to slow down in the coming years.

PARIS - The Assyrian Nimrud bull, destroyed by Isis in March 2015, has been recreated by the cultural heritage thinktank Incontro di Civiltà under the l

ROME - Italy and India are flirting with the idea of deepening economic ties.

SALERNO - Two men have been arrested in connection with the deaths of 26 Nigerian young women and girls who drowned in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean.