ROME – “The blue tsunami,” La Stampa labelled it, “collapse of the red wall” – the Italian media reaction to the UK election was dramatic reporting for a dramatic night.  Most papers agre

 ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced in a press release Thursday that it “is in a race against time” to mobilise funds to feed millions of people in South Sudan.

 ROME – Donald Trump will seek to whip up racism and xenophobia among Americans increasingly as the 2020 election approaches, with potentially catastrophic consequences for the United States now be

 ROME – The Italian Prime Minister has apparently cancelled a lunch meeting with Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat that was due to be held Friday in Rome, The Malta Independent reported

 ROME – Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and President of the USA Donald Trump appeared to contradict each other on Huawei and 5G, La Stampa reported.

 ROME – The World Food Programme (WFP) has issued a press statement stating that it is “rapidly expanding an already sizeable emergency operation in Zimbabwe where drought, flooding and macro-econo

 LA VALLETTA – The alleged “middleman” in the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia was testifying in court Wednesday, The Times of Malta said, as investigations in the case that has shaken Ma

ROME — Chilean CIO director at the FAO, Samuel Varas, has been sacked as part of a wide ranging purge at the UN agency in which Chinese officials have taken over the IT division, FAO sources said.

 ROME – Alexander Yurievich Korshunov, accused of industrial espionage by an Ohio court, has been released from Poggioreale prison and is now under house arrest, Corriere della Sera report

 ROME – SOS Mediterranee is calling for “maritime authorities and a coalition of willing European States to urgently mobilise and facilitate the assignment of a Place of Safety to the Ocean Viking,

 LA VALLETTA – Maltese prime minister Joseph Muscat has announced that he will be resigning from the office after Jan 12, government sources reported.

 TIRANA – Dozens of people have been confirmed dead following a 6.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Albania on Tuesday.

 FLORENCE – The Boboli Gardens and the Wilanów Palace Museum of Warsaw are working in partnership to look after and promote their historic citrus plant collections, The Florentine reported

 LA VALLETTA – Recordings apparently taken by “middleman” Melvin Theuma allegedly show that businessman Yorgen Fenech paid 150,000 euros for the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia, The Time

 ROME – The Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) was scheduled to host the launch of a new book about American foreign policy and counter-terrorism strategy under Donald Trump next week on Dec 6.

 POTENZA – An earthquake in Albania has killed at least 13 people and wounded at least 600, authorities reported.

 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