PARIS - Speaking at a preliminary hearing in the Court of Appeal in the French capital, nine former far-left Italian terrorists from the Red Brigades and other gangs arrested in France have refus

  AGRIGENTO - A total of over 700 migrants are thought to have landed on Italian shores over the last few days, many believed to be making the perilous journey from North Africa in an attempt to fl

  AUGUSTA, Sicily - The Ocean Viking, the ship chartered by European maritime and humanitarian organisation SOS MEDITERRANEE, is sailing towards Augusta, Sicily, after receiving the instruction fro

  ROME – A coalition of multilateral development banks and development partners has pledged over 17 billion dollars in financing on Friday during a high-level forum, in a bold bid to address rising

  PARIS - “No one in the Italian government is looking for vendettas or trophies,” said a statement from Palazzo Chigi regarding Italy’s as yet un-granted requests for extradition of the terrorists

  ROME - On the eve of the preliminary hearing in the trial of the four Egyptian secret service agents charged with the death of Italian student Giulio Regeni, a “shameful and unacceptable” documen

  ANTANANARIVO – The unrelenting drought in southern Madagascar is forcing hundreds of thousands of people to the brink of famine, warns the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).

  PARIS - Seven former members of the left-wing terrorists organisations of Italy’s ‘Years of Lead’ have been arrested in France, with French police still searching for three others.

  TIRANA - Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has secured a third term in power for him and his Socialist Party after winning 49 percent of the vote - and 74 of 140 parliamentary seats - in Tuesday's

  ROME - For the last few years, emigration by the Turkish middle and upper classes has been an increasingly common thing.

  ABU DHABI - Italians diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates are at an all time low, with several defence contracts being directed to other countries and former Prime Minister Giuseppe

  RUMBEK - An Italian bishop, Monsignor Christian Carlasse, currently working as a missionary in South Sudan, was shot in the legs by two men in a seemingly targeted attack against leaders of the C

  ROME - Almost a month after Italy expelled two Russian officials working in the Rome embassy, Russia has finally responding, kicking out a Defence Attaché from the Italian embassy in Moscow.

  ROME - The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, is visiting the United Arab Emirates on 25-27 April 2021.

  VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has harshly condemned the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean - in which well over 100 migrants are thought to have drowned after a shipwreck - saying, "I confess that

  ROME - The embassies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden in Italy kick off the "Be smart be equal" project, a cycle of events in 2021 focused on equal opportunities a

  BENGHAZI - "The reopening of the Italian Consulate in Benghazi is imminent," announced Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs Luigi Di Maio after a meeting at the Farnesina with Najla El Mangoush,

  PEMBA – Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province is in the grips of a spiralling c

  TRIPOLI - Over 100 people are thought to have drowned after the shipwreck of a rubber dinghy was discovered on Thursday by the crew of SOS Mediterranee's Ocean Viking off the north coast of Tripo

  ROME - Speaking at the latest in a series of conferences run by the Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC), Dick Roche, the former Irish Environment Minister, discussed the two conclusions he took a

  YANGON – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is to mount a new food assistance operation, targeting up to 2 million vulnerable people in the poor townships in Myanmar’s main cities and

  CASERTA - A 28 year old Albanian man has been arrested in Speranise, accused of aiding the perpetrator of the 2016 Nice massacre, in which 86 people, including six Italians, were killed, police s

  PANAMA CITY – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has reached an agreement to commence operations in Venezuela with the priority of serving the most vulnerable children.