LA VALLETTA -- Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri resigned their positions as cabinet minister and prime minister's chief of staff respectively on Tuesday, as the arrest of key figures in the slaying

ROME – FAO ADG Roberto Ridolfi played a key role this year in advising the Fiera di Roma trade fair how to garner funds from the ENEL energy corporation for the ExCo cooperation fair and Fiera di R

 LA VALLETTA – Yorgen Fenech, the businessman confirmed as a “person of interest” in the investigations into the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, has been rearrested after his release o

 LA VALLETTA – A crowd chanting “Mafia, Mafia” blocked a car carrying the Maltese Justice Minister Owen Bonnici and Parliamentary Secretary Aaron Farrugia, leading to the injury of a police officer

 OUAGADOUGOU – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned Tuesday of an escalating humanitarian crisis in the Central Sahel region of West Africa, cause by widespread violence and the lon

 ROME – A new film published by PETA Germany reveals that donkeys and mules are still being beaten and exploited as “taxis” on the Greek island of Santorini, carrying tourists in defiance of the la

 ROME - Jude Kirton-Darling MEP has written to the EU Commissioner for Justice, Věra Jourová asking for infringement proceedings against Italy concerning 30 years of 'pass the parcel' discriminatio

 ROME – A report by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) presented Friday at Peking University argues that specific, effective policies and investments are urgently needed to

 ROME – German chancellor Angela Merkel was in Rome Monday for talks with Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte.

 MEXICO CITY – An Italian ship was attacked Wednesday night by pirates in the Gulf of Mexico, say Italian foreign ministry sources.

 BAGHDAD – Three of the five Italian soldiers wounded in Iraq following an explosion on Monday remain in a serious condition, said defence sources.  The attack has sparked concerns of a resurgence

 ROME – The third “Russian Rome” festival took place Friday in Palazzo Poli, celebrating Russian art in Italy and beyond.

 ROME – The first “International conference against all forms of Mafia” was due to start in Slovakia on Nov 11.  The International Land Coalition (ILC) will be attending in order to raise awareness

 ROME – Poland’s new ambassador to Italy, Anna Maria Anders, daughter of World War Two hero General Wladyslaw, marked the beginning of her new posting and her family's return to the Eternal City wi

 ROME – A group of vulnerable refugees from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan arrived in Italy via the Emergency Transit Mechanism in Niger, run by UNHCR, said the UN agency.

 BRATISLAVA – On behalf of the investigative journalist who worked for the portal Aktuality.sk, Ján Kuciak and his fiancé Martina Kušnírová who were murdered in the town of Veľká Mača, the Head of

 VATICAN CITY – In addition to the building it has been found to own in Chelsea, the Secretariat of State also bought property in North Kensington with “Peter’s Pence” money, La Stampa said Mon

 TURIN – Fiat Chrysler Automobiles have merged with PSA, who own Peugeot, in a 50 billion euro deal, business sources report. 

 ROME – Italy looked set Thursday to renew the controversial migration agreement with Libya even as plans are made for a proposed new system that would see the European Union manage migration centr

 VATICAN CITY – Copies of an Argentinian statue of the Virgin Mary taken home by British troops after the Falklands War were blessed by Pope Francis and exchanged in St Peter’s Square on Wednesday

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 ROME – China’s victory in the Food and Agriculture Organization election due to bungled U.S.