WARSAW – The Italian Ambassador to Poland, Aldo Amati, highlighted the considerable business potential of the central European country in an interview with Italian financial newspaper, T

ROME – The city’s public and military prosecutors have requested that Italian Navy officer Walter Biot be indicted on charges of spying for Russia, judicial authorities said Monday.

 ROME-  The Italian Universities and Research ministry, seeking to head off EU infringement proceedings, has allocated as much as 43.5 million euros for overdue b

 ROME – A flight from Athens to Fiumicino brought 48 refugees to Italy Friday morning, thanks to humanitarian corridors organised by the Community of Sant'Egidio.

 ROME – The European Commission will pursue infringement proceedings against Italy for discrimination against foreign lecturers until the Italian universities “fu

 ROME – The annual celebration of the Scottish poet Robert Burns was marked at Villa Wolkonsky with an unconventional seafood menu, created by Michelin-star chef Giuseppe Di Iorio and res

LAMPEDUSA – A boat carrying 280 people arrived in Lampedusa during the night, of which seven on board were found dead, the port authorities said.

ANZIO – The centenarian head of British war veterans in Italy, Harry Shindler, has paid tribute to his fallen companions duriing ceremonies to mark the 78th anniversary of the Battle of A

 ROME – A Finnish ecumenical delegation visited Rome for the Mass of Saint Henry, celebrated in the Basilica of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva.

 BOLOGNA – The first edition of the Sana Slow Wine Fair will be held in the Emilia-Romagna capital from March 27 to 29, to allow full participation of operators, professionals and visitor

 ALGIERS -- The representative of the Polisario Front to the UN and coordinator with MINURSO, Sidi Mohamed Omar, who is currently in the Tindouf refugee camps as p

 LAMPEDUSA – Over 500 migrants landed on the southernmost island of Italy during the night between Thursday and Friday, said the coast guard.

 VATICAN CITY – The Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has been accused of negligence while he was the archbishop of Munich and Freising, according to a long-awaited report on child sex abuse in

 GOMA – Doubts have been cast around the liklihood that the six men arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo are those who took part in the killing of Italian Ambassador to the centra

 FLORENCE -- Finnish designer Ervin Latimer has chosen Pitti Uomo, the men's fashion event held annually in the Renaissance city, to debut his new brand Latimmier, which aims to redefine t

 At a time when women in the cockpit were frowned upon in the world, Klimovich made a name for herself flying aerobatics as a Soviet and then Russian National Aerobatic Team pilot.

 ROME – Italian retirees who live abroad are now required to show proof they are alive in order to receive their pension payments, according to the National Social Security Institute (INP

 ROME – The current political situation in Iraq post-elections poses a grave threat to the long-term peace and stability in the country due to the continuing power of militias raised to d

 AUGUSTA – The Geo Barents, a Doctor's Without Borders rescue ship, has found safe port for the 558 migrants it was carrying to disembark, after having waited at sea for days, while The S

 AGRIGENTO – During the night a further 119 migrants arrived on Lampedusa, bringing the number of refugees in the centre to 370, substantially above its intended capacity, the coast guard

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis met the Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion Alfeyev, in the study of the Paul VI Hall at 7:50 Wednesday morning, before his General Audience, t

NICOSIA -- The government of the Republic of Cyprus will pledge a donation to support the vaccination campaign for the Covid-19 pandemic in two African countries, Mozambique and the Centr

 ROME - The new Ambassador of the Algerian Democratic and Popular Republic in Italy, Abdelkrim Touahria, was yesterday received by the Italian President, Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinal Palace, t