VATICAN CITY -- Australian Cardinal George Pell, an outspoken conservative prelate whose attempt, at request of Pope Francis to reform Vatican finances, was inte

 VATICAN CITY –- The Vatican judiciary has decided to open the case of Emanuela Orlandi 40 years later, judicial sources say. 

 PALERMO, Sicily – The Governor of Sicily, Renato Schifani, has demanded answers over the outrageous sum of money spent by the regional government to contribute to the Cannes festival. 

 ROME – The United States for two months has been pressing Italy and France to provide Ukraine with the advanced Italo-French Samp-T ground to air missile defence

 ROME -- In a joint statement published on Thursday, 20 aid organisations active in search and rescue, including SOS Humanity, Doctors Without Borders and Sea-Wat

 Brussels - European Union will officially withdraw on January 16th parliamentary immunity, a

 ROME – Mehdi Zare Ashkzari, a 30-year-old Iranian man had left his studies in Bologna to return to Iran to care for his ill mother, where he was then beaten to death by police, media reported.

 GENOA – Rubens’ painting was confiscated due to illegal exportation and money laundering concerns. 

 ROME – Disregarding Western criticism of his pro-Moscow stance, the FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has inaugurated a “Russian room,” funded by the Russian phosph

 ROME – The Ndrangheta mafia affiliated group is being hunted down and arrested in both Calabria and New York, police reported on Tuesday.

 ROME – A boat transporting 50 migrants onboard sank ten miles south of Lampedusa, with 43 people currently rescued, and one two-year-old girl found dead, emergency services reported.

ROME -- Antonio Panzeri, former MEP for the Democrats of the Left and president of the ONG “Fight Impute” was arrested last Friday, by Belgian Federal Attorney, together with Niccolò Figà

 LIVORNO - “The ammunition used in Iran to shoot down protesters are Italian” is the motive for the protest on Thursday, in front of the factory that produces them in the Tuscan region, organisers

ROME – Activists gather in front of the UK Embassy on Human Rights Day, to protest the extradition of Julian Assange to the US.

 Milan– A doctor, 76-year-old Giorgio Falcetto was attacked and killed with a hatchet just outside of a clinic, police reported Thursday.

 ROME- Italy’s centre right government is sending back to Slovenia hundreds of asylum seekers and migrants trying to enter the country in freezing temperatures al

 ATHENS - A car bomb targeting Susanna Schlein, advisor to the Italian embassy to Greece and sister of Elly Schlein, candidate for PD secretary, was claimed by the Greek anarchist group “Carlo Giul

 ROME – As David Beasley’s tenure as head of WFP draws to a close, diplomats reflect that while the former Republican governor has been a good fundraiser, helping

 ROME – Sweden’s exports to Saudi Arabia are likely to climb further on the back of Riyadh’s increased oil revenue, Economist and Senior Fellow at the Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) Keith Boyf

 NAPLES – The United States aircraft carrier George H.W.

ROME – Gaetano Alaimo, a well-respected cardiologist in the city of Favara in the Agrigento region was shot and killed by a patient he had been treating for years, police reported Tuesday.

 HELSINKI - The Finnish Government decided on November 17 that Finland will take ten asylum seekers rescued by the rescue vessel Ocean Viking that docked in France.

 ROME – Italian football fans were said to be supporting Argentina at the Qatar World Cup, in the painful absence of the Azzurri, who were knocked out during the qualifying stages by Macedonia.