ROME – Two Italians incarcerated in Equatorial Guinea have returned to Italy after the end of three years in captivity in the African backwater, the Italian foreign ministry said.

ROME - Total number of nights spent at all accommodation establishments grew by 5.3 per cent in 2017 According to preliminary data, the number of nights spent at accommodation establishme

ROME – The Italian Navy has announced that the ITS Carlo Margottini, a European multi-mission frigate (FREMM), reached the Pakistani port of Karachi, where she will be stationed until 10 March.

ROME – Diplomatic tensions were raised on Thursday morning as Italy’s ambassador to Austria was instructed not to attend a meeting in Vienna, scheduled for March 23, over the thorny issue of dual-c

ROME – The complex issues covering the roots of the revolt in Syria and their constant transformation over the past seven years were analysed in the book launch of “Siria: Il perché di una guer

ROME - The current course of Turkey’s foreign policy is causing significant tensions with powerful traditional allies such as the United States or increasingly powerful players in the Mid

 ROME – The flamboyant Brazilian Ambassador to the FAO, João Carlos de Souza-Gomes, was expected to return to his post in the Eternal City this week despit

ROME - Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the small right-wing, anti-immigration party, Brothers of Italy, made a strange detour from the election campaign on Wednesday, arriving in Hungary to speak to

 ROME — Eight months after the respected Algerian reporter Said Chitour was jailed on trumped up charges of ‘espionage,’ the Alge

ROME – The families of three Italians kidnapped in Mexico have appealed to the Italian government on Monday to apply pressure to local authorities to find their relatives who are said to have been

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis appealed Sunday for an end to the “inhuman” bombardment by Syrian forces of the rebel enclave of east Ghouta, saying “one cannot fight evil with another evil.”

ROME – The Community of Sant’Egidio will be holding a press conference and welcoming party for 114 refugees arriving from Ethiopia but originally from a number of countries across the Horn of Afric

ROME - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and Sudan signed a financing agreement worth dlrs 47.5 million that aims to improve the country’s resilience to climate change and

ROME – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) announced the signing of a new agreement between the UN agency and the government of Saudi Arabia “to help boost agriculture produc

ROME - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) announced that they put together a financing package with the Republic of Tajikistan worth dlrs 39.3 million, in order to “help red

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis was aware of claims of an alleged cover up of paedophilic abuse in Chile by Bishop Juan Barros as early as 2015, having received a letter from one of the abuse victims,

 ROME — The ever-smiling IFAD czar Gilbert Houngbo's new restructuring plan unveiled at a "town hall meeting" a week-end ago purportedly aims at achieving "excellence" but it features a “Pol Pot” s

VATICAN CITY – Pro-Kurdish protesters and police scuffled near the CastelSantAngelo Monday, police said, as Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Pope Francis in an audience, making the first visit of a Tu

ROME – Jihadst extremists draw from only a very narrow range of the Koran and marginalise key concepts such as prayer, fasting and preaching, two top analysts at the Tony Blair Institute for Gl

ROME – Scholars from the Polytechnic University of Turin have finally begun the search for hidden chambers in the tomb of Tutankhamun, after the Egyptian government delayed the decision for a year.

ROME – Father Firas Lutfi, Superior of the Franciscan College of the Holy Land in Aleppo, has called for a greater international effort to be focused on the rehabilitation of children born under IS