ROME – The Italian foreign ministry uses hundreds of poorly paid local contractors around the world to carry out strange and delicate ‘missions,’ Il Fatto Quotidiano reports.

ROME – Some six years after the disappearance of Father Paolo Dall’Oglio, the Jesuit priest from Rome who was kidnapped in Syria in 2013, his family insist that he may still be alive and call for f

GENOA – Some 368 kilos of cocaine, which has a market value of over 100 million euros, was seized by undercover police in an internationally co-ordinated operation when the ‘Ndrangheta sailing boat

TRIPOLI, Libya – A boat carrying some 300 migrants traveling to Europe capsized off the coast of Libya Thursday, with some 150 believed to have drowned according to a spokesman for the United Natio

LONDON – After being banned from the Turin Book Fair, neo-fascist publishing house Altaforte has suffered another blow, this time from across the Channel, where a London university has cancelled th

ROME – Confindustria, the Italian employers’ federation and FEI, the federation of Egyptian industries Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to “strengthen trade relations and promote econo

CUNEO – Two British men are dead after two planes collided mid-air Wednesday over the Italian-French alpine border, Italian news agency ANSA reports.

DHAKA, Bangladesh – The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) is working to help more than 275,000 people affected by floods in north western Bangladesh with an innovative forecast-based finan

ROME – Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini was one of many leaders to congratulate Boris Johnson, who is set to become the UK’s prime minister later today as Theresa May resigns.

ROME – Amongst the personified state-characters of international relations analysts, everyone is “interested” in Africa.

ROME - Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has hit out at French NGOs SOS Mediterranée and Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) after they announced on Monday the resumption of m

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Piedmontese climber Francesco Cassardo, 30, was rescued by a helicopter after two days, having fallen Saturday over 500 metres from a peak in the Himalayan mountain range.

BOLOGNA – Joint operations by Bologna and Turin police targeted a Nigerian mafia clan which allegedly ran large drugs and prostitution operations in Piedmont and Emilia Romagna.

PALERMO – An large joint-operation between Sicilian police and New York’s Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) led Wednesday to the arrest of 19 people, including a Sicilian mayor, and revealed li

GENOA - Interior Minister Matteo Salvini will report to parliament over alleged plans to use Russian oil money to finance the League, he told journalists Tuesday.

ROME – Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio has called on Interior Minister Matteo Salvini to report to parliament over alleged plans to use Russian oil money to finance the League in a post on his

TRIESTE - A Chinese finalist who was set to pull out of a fashion design contest in Trieste one month before the awards ceremony, has taken two gongs including top honours and a 15,000 euro cash pr

 TRIESTE – Fashion finalists from 15 countries including the UK have converged on Trieste to compete in the 2019 International Talent Support (ITS) design competition dedicated to championing emerg

ROME – The row over alleged plans to use Russian oil money to finance the League as part of a secret and illegal deal with the Kremlin has been reignited after Buzzfeed News published a transcript

ROME – The “Friendship and Solidarity Tour,” a series of concerts played across Italy, has begun in celebration of the struggle for and attainment of freedom in South Africa.

ROME –  A defense witness who worked in the communications department of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) gave testimony Tuesday in the trial at the Rome Tribunal brought by the UN

VALLETTA – A rescue ship carrying 65 Libyan migrants Sunday night landed in Malta, after being turned away from Italy.

PARIS – The online campaign group SumOfUS has reports that AXA, a French multinational insurance company, invests in banned weapons manufacturers and companies which finance illegal Israeli settlem

ROME – President Vladimir Putin managed to squeeze in a catch up with long-time friend and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on his lightning trip to Rome but his desire to take home a relic