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Rural women need empowering as food systems buckle
ROME – Achieving gender equality and empowering women and girls is essential to the health of agricultural sectors, according to a statement released by three UN organisations based in Rome.
Germany pledges millions to support DRC farmers
GOMA – Senior representatives of the German Government, various UN agencies, and governors from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) launched a new four-year programme on Wednesday that aims to s
Algeria to become a new diplomatic heavyweight?
ALGIERS - For the past several years, Algeria has lacked any real presence in the realm of international diplomacy.
Negotiations revived for Senegal's forgotten conflict zone
ROME – The Senegalese government and a delegation from the Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC), have met after months of stalled negotiations, to reaffirm their commitment to finding
Pope resumes audiences, Fiumicino woman positive
Tracked ship from Columbia ends in titanic drugs bust
Shoddy EU treatment of Italian Schumann trainees
BRUSSELS - Italian Schumann trainees at the European Parliament were left feeling confused by absurd contradictions in their communications with the EU traineeship office on Tuesday, after receivin
Rescued migrants dock and are quarantined in Sicily
Weinstein prosecution puts spotlight on aid industry
ROME - Harvey Weinstein, who was convicted of third-degree rape and a first-degree criminal sexual act charges on Monday, would have gotten away with it if he had been an aid worker, according to i
Anti-drug trafficking conference takes on Italian mafia
Vandalized Zaki poster will not ‘silence us'
Dolce & Gabbana join global fight against Coronavirus.
London tribute to Zeffirelli
Zaky appeals hearing set for Saturday
Salvini denies Liverpool visit after mayor calls him 'fascist'
Emergency rations struggle to reach those fleeing Syria
Russian money launderer entrenched at FAO
ROME – The appointment of convicted Russian moneylaunderer Vladimir Kusnetsov to the FAO finance committee was opposed in vain by the United States and FAO’s new Chinese Qu Dongyu has turned a bli
Locust plague on the cusp of humanitarian disaster
Italy breaks ranks to be peace-broker in Libya
Finnish MD on importance of trade fair summit
Rome and Beijing in diplomatic row over coronavirus
ROME – On Friday Chinese government officials voiced their displeasure at the suspension of flights to and from China, with the closure of flights between the Italy and China having been signed off
University of Bologna student tortured and held in Egypt
CAIRO – Patrick Zaky, 27, an exchange student studying gender and human rights at the University of Bologna, was arrested Friday at Cairo airport and has been beaten and given electric shocks, acco