LECCO – A British father of two has died after the jet plane he was co-piloting crashed into a mountain near Lake Como, aviation sources said.

 ALGIERS -- After several months of relative calm imposed by the coronavirus pandemic-related ban on large meetings and rallies, the Algerian Hirak resumed its demonstrations with the same spirit,

 VATICAN CITY – The Holy See is evaluating how to respond to an invitation for Pope Francis to visit Kiev from the city’s mayor, Vitaliy Klitschko, Vatican sources said.  The news comes a

 ROME – The president of the Italian Friends of Russia Association Lorenzo Valloreja filed a complaint to authorities as a precautionary measure following the latest in a number of threat

 TRIESTE – One of the most expensive yachts ever built, owned by Russian oligarch Andrey Igorevich Melnichenko, was confiscated Friday by Italian police as part of Western sanctions, auth

 CESENA – A bus carrying Ukrainian citizens fleeing from war overturned while travelling at 101 k.m. per hour, just before 6:45 a.m.

 ROME -- As FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has started campaigning for re-election next year, a circle of Western ambassadors have been meeting to discuss if ther

 ROME – Two student singers from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory, one Russian and one Ukrainian, performed together at the Pantheon Wednesday evening as part of a concert calling for an en

 ALGIERS -- Three years ago, mass protests began in Algeria that put a sudden end to the 20-year rule of President Abdelaziz  Bouteflika, pulling the plug on his plans for a fifth presidential term

 Helsinki – In the space of just one week, a proposed popular initiative inviting the government to apply for NATO membership on the basis of human rights protected by the Constitution reached the

 PRZEMYSL, Poland – Matteo Salvini travelled to this Polish border city to help Ukrainian refugees fleeing war, but was refused a warm welcome by Mayor Wojciech Bakun, despite having a si

 ROME -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has stopped short of calling Russia's war in Ukraine an invasion or war, referring to the conflict as only

 VATICAN CITY – The Holy See has announced it will put itself at the service of achieving peace in Ukraine.

MACERATA – The symphonic concert with Valery Gergiev at the head of the Mariinsky Orchestra has been axed from the city's Opera Festival due to the war in Ukraine, as told by Ansa news agency.

 ROME – The Italian police have seized some 140 million euros worth of Russian assets in the peninsula, including a 27-million-dollar yacht and a luxurious Tuscan villa belonging to Russi

 ROME -- A former FAO employee has won a hard-fought victory and was awarded damages in a lengthy legal battle against the UN agency management after the ILO Administrative Tribunal recognized her

 VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis will visit the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan in July, said Matteo Bruni, Director of the Holy See Press Office, in an official announcement Thursday.

VATICAN – Pope Francis thanked the Polish people for being “the first to support Ukraine,” during his general audience, said the Vatican News.

ROME – The Bambino Gesù children’s hospital, under jurisdiction of the Holy See, has said it will welcome child cancer patients from Ukraine, said the hospital’s president Mariella Enoc.