ROME - Interior Minister Matteo Salvini launched a new attack on Jean-Clean Juncker Wednesday insinuating that the President of the EU Commission was “not sober” when he criticized Italy’s budget p

GENEVA - Migrants crossing from Libya to Italy are more at risk than ever warns the UNHCR after the Aquarius has been confined to port following first Gibraltar and then Panama removing their flags

ROME – Gambling giant Sisal is suing the Italian government over allegedly favouring a close competitor, a discussion at the Regional Administrative Tribunal heard on Wednesday.

ROME – Italian luxury fashion company Versace has been sold to American designer giant Michael Kors, official sources said on Wednesday.

FLORENCE – A serial pest has attacked Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic at an exhibition of her work, police sources said on Monday.

ROME – As Britain prepares to leave the European Union, four out of five Italians residing in the UK talk positively about their experience regardless of Brexit, a polling agency said on Wednesday.

ORAN – A Muslim will be represented alongside 19 Christian martyrs at the Notre-Dame sanctuary of Santa Cruz in Oran (Algeria), a monk told catholic radio station InBlu on Tuesday.

FRANKFURT – European Central Bank President Mario Draghi calls for Italy’s government to keep its debt and budget plans under control as wild promises and conflicting messages have already hurt the

LAGOS - Writers who write and inhabit the world of post-colonial Africa tend to face myriad of challenges.

ROME – Italy needs to cut wasteful spending and focus on investment and infrastructure spending that will help promote growth said European Commissioner for Economic Affairs Pierre Moscovici on Thu

ROME - World hunger is rising, with 821 million people – 17 million more than in the previous year – going hungry in 2017, a UN report has revealed on Tuesday.

ROME – Interior minister Matteo Salvini has hit back at the UN’s newly appointed High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet for slamming Italy’s treatment of migrants as “inappropriate, u

HONDURAS - As the trial of eight men charged with the murder of Honduran indigenous leader Berta Cáceres begins, global organisations are calling for “real justice”.

TRIPOLI – A faction of armed rebels has stormed the headquarters of the Libyan National Oil Corporation (Noc) in Tripoli, a local Arab news agency has reported on Monday.

ROME – Italy is pursuing a short-sighted policy on Libya and failing to take sides on fundamental issues regarding Turkey and Iran because its new populist government wants to curry favour with Put

 The final film in competition at the 33rd Venice International Film Critics' Week is the visceral and mysterious experimental horror M by Finnish artist Anna Eriksson.

ROME – This week the Independent Office of Evaluation of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) launched "Roots", a podcast devised to spread the voice of rural workers in their

ROME – Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has strongly denied reports that Italy will intervene with their special forces in Libya, following many days of violence in Tripoli, political offic

TRIPOLI - Rebel troops loyal to renegade general Khalifa Haftar launched an assault on Libyan capital on Monday to try and oust the Italian and UN-backed government of Fayez al Sarraj, leaving over

ROME — US President Donald Trump has nominated Kip Tom from Indiana, an agri-business magnate owning one of Monsanto’s largest seed producers, to be the new U.S.

ROME – The Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has travelled to Cairo to meet with Egyptian president Al Sisi, promising answers from authorities’ investigation into the murder of Cambridge st

ROME – As part of a series of lectures on ‘The Middle East in crisis’, Dr Jean Loup Samaan spoke on Wednesday at the Euro-Gulf Information Centre in Rome about the Israel – Iran collision in Lebano