ROME -- Italy has been given, for 2021, the Chairmanship of the Gr

 MARSEILLE -- The rescue ship Ocean Viking of European search and rescue association SOS MEDITERRANEE sailed from this French port Monday headed for the central Mediterranean for the first time in

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis in his Christmas Day Urbi et Orbi (to the city and the world) message recalled that too many children, especially in Syria, Iraq and

 ROME -- Thousands of Italians were struggling Thursday to return home from the UK for Christmas after flights between the two countries were temporarily banned b

ROME — Italy banned all flights to and from the UK as of midnight Sunday after British authorities introduced measures to combat a new fast-spreading variant of Covid-19, health minister Roberto Sp

 MAZARA DEL VALLO, Sicily – Libya has released 18 Italian fishermen, detained in Libya for some three months, foreign ministry officials said Thursday.

 ROME – Those who seek to cover up Azerbaijani and Turkish crimes in Artsakh and Armenia cannot camouflage themselves within the Armenian community.

 ANKARA – As the world continues its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and the global economy faces insurmountable eco

 ROME -- An elegant and convivial dinner born thanks to the interest of members and supporters, sealed by the traditional exchange of gifts and an opportunity dic

Transcript as delivered of the speech given by UN World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley during today’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance ceremony.

ROME – Italian magistrates charged four Egyptian intelligence agents for the “abject and futile” murder of Cambridge student Giulio Regeni who was tortured to a slow death in 2016 by the Cairo spie

 ROME – According to many observers, the two-day visit to Algeria of the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs has displayed the interest of Rome's government to prioritise the strategic partnership

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is set to resume foreign travel for the first time since the pandemic hit, with a trip to war-torn Iraq in March 2021, Vatican sources said.

 ROME – Intense negotiations between the government of South Sudan (RTGoNU) and the opposition movements gathered in SSOMA have taken place in Rome with the media

 ROME – Following many meetings this year between Algeria and Italy, and despite current pandemic restrictions, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luigi Di Maio, was paying a working visit to Alg

 ROME – A poster depicting Jozsef Szájer, an MEP from Hungary’s ruling party, who quit after being caught attending a “gay sex party,” appeared Friday morning in

 TORA, Egypt – Three staff members from a human rights organization, arrested on terrorism charges, have been freed from Egypt’s Tora prison following calls for t

 SANA’A/ADEN, Yemen – The window to prevent famine in Yemen is narrowing as new figures reveal record highs of acute food insecurity in the country, the Food and

 BRUSSELS – Towards the end of June 2020, after Europe’s first lockdown, Europol warned that the COVID-19 crisis had resulted “in a surge in online distribution of child sexual abuse material, whic

 BRUSSELS – While faith leaders applauded last week’s U.S.

 ROME – Almost four years after his body was found in a ditch by the side of a Cairo highway, two witnesses have revealed they saw Egyptian security agents kidnap