ROME – Italy will maintain forces in Iraq as tension remains high over Iran, Italian defence sources said.

 ROME – Escalating hunger needs in sub-Saharan Africa dominate a World Food Programme (WFP) analysis of global hunger hotspots in the first half of 2020, with millions of people requiring life-savi

 New York -- Just 11 days after Abdelmadjid Tebboune was elected president of a deeply polarised Algeria, the country’s powerful military chief, Lt Gen.

 ROME – A pragmatic approach making use of local powers and groups with practical influence in the area is essential to bringing about an end to conflict in Syria, Russian diplomat Marija Chodynska

 ROME – A meeting between Kuwaiti and Italian delegations recently took place in the Italian capital ahead of the Kuwait-Italy Expo 2020, the first Expo dedicated to small and medium Italian busine

 ROME – In an embarrassing episode for Italy’s public broadcasting company RAI, a journalist’s interview with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad which RAI allegedly did not want to broadcast became a

 ROME – “The blue tsunami,” La Stampa labelled it, “collapse of the red wall” – the Italian media reaction to the UK election was dramatic reporting for a dramatic night.  Most papers agre

 ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced in a press release Thursday that it “is in a race against time” to mobilise funds to feed millions of people in South Sudan.

 ROME – Donald Trump will seek to whip up racism and xenophobia among Americans increasingly as the 2020 election approaches, with potentially catastrophic consequences for the United States now be

 ROME – The Italian Prime Minister has apparently cancelled a lunch meeting with Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat that was due to be held Friday in Rome, The Malta Independent reported

 ROME – Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and President of the USA Donald Trump appeared to contradict each other on Huawei and 5G, La Stampa reported.

 ROME – The World Food Programme (WFP) has issued a press statement stating that it is “rapidly expanding an already sizeable emergency operation in Zimbabwe where drought, flooding and macro-econo

 LA VALLETTA – The alleged “middleman” in the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia was testifying in court Wednesday, The Times of Malta said, as investigations in the case that has shaken Ma

ROME — Chilean CIO director at the FAO, Samuel Varas, has been sacked as part of a wide ranging purge at the UN agency in which Chinese officials have taken over the IT division, FAO sources said.

 ROME – Alexander Yurievich Korshunov, accused of industrial espionage by an Ohio court, has been released from Poggioreale prison and is now under house arrest, Corriere della Sera report

 ROME – SOS Mediterranee is calling for “maritime authorities and a coalition of willing European States to urgently mobilise and facilitate the assignment of a Place of Safety to the Ocean Viking,

 LA VALLETTA – Maltese prime minister Joseph Muscat has announced that he will be resigning from the office after Jan 12, government sources reported.

 TIRANA – Dozens of people have been confirmed dead following a 6.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Albania on Tuesday.

 FLORENCE – The Boboli Gardens and the Wilanów Palace Museum of Warsaw are working in partnership to look after and promote their historic citrus plant collections, The Florentine reported

 LA VALLETTA – Recordings apparently taken by “middleman” Melvin Theuma allegedly show that businessman Yorgen Fenech paid 150,000 euros for the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, The Time

 ROME – The Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) was scheduled to host the launch of a new book about American foreign policy and counter-terrorism strategy under Donald Trump next week on Dec 6.

 POTENZA – An earthquake in Albania has killed at least 13 people and wounded at least 600, authorities reported.