NAPLES - Vincenzo De Luca, the President of Campania, has rebelled against the decision of the Italian government in saying the his region will no longer administer different vaccines for the fir

  BRUSSELS - Leaders of the European Union on Monday signed the final official regulation on the EU Digital Covid Certificate, also known as the Covid green pass. 

  ROME - The long-awaited 2020 European Championship couldn’t have got off to a better start for Italy after beating Turkey 3-0 in Rome in their opening match.

  VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has rejected Cardinal Reinhard Marx's resignation letter, saying that "Taking up the crisis, personally and communally, is the only fruitful path.”

  AUGUSTA - The British Aircraft Carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has arrived in the waters off Sicily for a short stopover before it continues on its trip to the Pacific Ocean.

  GOMA - Italian prosecuting authorities investigating the death of Ambassador Luca Attanasio in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have placed an official of the UN's World Food Programme

  ROME - After Naomi Osaka’s withdrawal from the French Open, the debate about press conferences keeps cropping up. 

  ROME - The Italian Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, has summoned the UAE’s Ambassador in Italy, Omar Al Shamsi, to the Farnesina after a plane full of Italian journalists blocked from flying over

  HERAT - Several Afghan civilians who worked in various functions for the Italian, British and American armed forces during conflict in their country have launched an urgent appeal for help gettin

  CETARA - The Ambassador of Algeria, HE Ahmed Boutache, accompanied by his institutional delegation, was welcomed in Cetara, on the Amalfi Coast, to remember the historic connection between this s

  ROME - Here we go: a short time until the start of UEFA EURO 2020.

  TARANTO - SailGP fans were out in full force – with sellout crowds on-shore and nearly one thousand registered boats lining the racecourse – to enjoy the second

  PALERMO - The NGO migrant rescue ship, Sea Eye 4, has been subjected to "administrative detention" by the Italian Coast Guard after it was found to be in violation of several internation

  ROME - After 37 years in the Italian Secret Services, Marco Mancini, 60, will be retiring in July - a retirement perhaps brought forward by the controversy surrounding his meeting with former Pri

  GRANADA - UP till now the received knowledge has always been that Christopher Columbus, the supposed discoverer of America, was born in Genoa in 1451.

  CAIRO - For the umpteenth time the nightmare that Patrick Zaki is living has been extended, after it has decided by the Cairo Tribunal that Zaki’s pre-trial detention will last a further 45 days.

  MEKELE – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has provided emergency food assistance to 1 million people since starting distributions in Northwestern and Southern zones of Tigray region

  ROME - On his first official visit to Italy since he took office in March, Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah met with Italian PM Mario Draghi and spoke at an Italy-Libya business forum at

  ANKARA - Turkey's determination to start a fresh dialogue with Washington was revealed at diplomatic talks between U.S.

  ZARZIS - “It will be a heaven on earth,” has said the creator of a new cemetery for dead refugees, those thousands who have died attempting to cross the Mediterranean.

  ROME - The Centre for Global Development has published a report on the Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA) measuring and comparing the performance of 49 countries and global agenci

  FLORENCE - The 19-year-old Swiss Moto3 racer, Jason Dupasquier, has died in hospital after injuries sustained during a crash in a qualifying session for the Italian Grand Prix.

  ROME - Economic empowerment of rural women as farmers, entrepreneurs and leaders contributes towards alleviating pover