ROME - Paul Sellers, the fun-loving former head of the British Council in Italy, has resigned from the post after being accused of sexual harassment.

  ROME - The State funeral for the late Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo, Luca Attanasio, and his Carabiniere police escort Vito Iacovacci was held Thursday at Santa Maria deg

  AGRIGENTO - After news was released of yet another 41 migrants missing in the Mediterranean, UNHCR (the UN migration agency) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Wednesday ca

  ROME – The COVID-19 pandemic risks reversing a decade of hard-won gains in global efforts to provide nutritious food to the world’s most vulnerable children through a free daily meal in school, t

  Lecce - During an international online conference organised by the University of Salento, the latest results of the “Mission’s” investigations at Shahr-i Sokhta, an archaeological eldorado locate

  ROME - Italy demanded Wednesday an official investigation to be carried out by the UN and the World Food Programme into the ambush and murder of the Italian ambassador to the Congo and his Carabi

  GOMA - The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), the rebel group thought to be responsible for the killing of the Italian ambassador Luca Attanasio, have released a statement “de

 ROME – Hunger in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua has increased almost fourfold over the past two years - from 2.2 million people in 2018 to close to 8 million people in 2021 – a res

  GOMA – The Italian ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Luca Attanasio, was shot and killed on Monday in an attack on a World Food Programme convoy in the Virunga National Park, th

  LAMPEDUSA – At around 3:30am on Saturday morning, about 15 miles from the nearest coast, a ship of migrants capsized while attempting to make the crossing from North Africa, a Coast Guard spokesp

  ROME – The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) has announced an urgent request for 204 million dollars if it is to continue existing operations beyond February. The UNHAS is a critica

  FLORENCE - Mid-career policy professionals from Africa will get an opportunity to fine-tune their global leadership skills during a new three-month fully-funded training programme in Florence, It

  CAGLIARI - Animal rights activists on Thursday requested the assistance of the Italian government after two ships full of live animals were reported to be anchored in the Mediterranean, one sitti

  ROME - Italy has pledged 84 millions euros in the fight to guarantee access to food for those in the poorest rural areas, Luigi Di Maio, Italian Foreign Affairs

CAIRO –  A record 12.4 million Syrians, nearly 60 percent of the population, are now food insecure, according to alarming new national data from the UN World Food Programme (WFP). 

  VATICAN CITY - The sentencing of the former head of the Vatican Bank has given renewed vigour to the search for the ‘Ustasha Treasury’, due to suspicions over the bank’s possession of the loot, a

  ROME - Director of Rai1, Stefano Coletta, has asked his “vice-directors and all [his] managers to no longer host” Alan Friedman, according to "Il Messaggero".

  ROME - The 44th session of the Council of Governors of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is set to take place Wednesday and Thursday as leaders meet to discuss strategies

  MILAN - National and international selections are underway for the second edition of Panettone World Championship, organised by the “Academy of Masters of Mother Yeast” and “Italian Panettone.”

  ANKARA -- Students and faculty members at Bogazici University, one of Turkey’s most prestigious universities, are protesting the appointment of a new rec

  ROME - The Italian version of the new online disinformation game, “Go Viral!”, which is designed to help immunise people to the most common fake news techniques, has been launched by the British

DUBAI – Italy’s approach to sustainable development will feature in “Expo 2020”, Dubai’s new global event, which displays online initiatives leading up to the Universal Expo.

  ROME - A shipment of long range cruising missiles, manufactured and sold by the European defence consortium MBDA, has arrived in Egypt, 

  NORFOLK - On Saturday, the Italian Navy Aircraft Carrier ITS Cavour arrived in the homeport of the second fleet of the US Navy in Norfolk, Virginia.

  ROME – Nearly 2.3 million children under the age of five in Yemen are projected to suffer from acute malnutrition in 2021, four United Nations agencies warned o