ROME – The US is a hopelessly divided, and dysfunctional country.

 ROME - High-profile soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo is in quarantine after testing positive for Covid, the Portuguese Football Federation said on Tuesday.

Statement by WFP Executive Director David Beasley

 ROME – Anti-child abuse aid charity Hear Their Cries has slammed the Nobel Peace

 MALI – Two Italian hostages kidnapped by Islamic extremists in Niger have been freed, Malian government officials said on Friday.

ROME --A flight carrying the leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (North), Abdulaziz Al-Hilu, was expressly authorized by the WFP Executive Director, David Beasley, to facilitate negotiatio

 ROME – Algeria’s upcoming referendum gives the north African nation a chance to reform its constitution meaningfully for the first time since independence

 KANO – The Nigerian Government and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today launched a cash and food assistance programme in the three urban COVID-19

 ROME – Staff at the WFP office in Sudan are concerned they may be at risk from retaliation after Gavin Gramstad, a Special Assistant to the WFP Executive Directo

 IMPERIA – The body of a woman recovered in waters off Borgo Prino, Imperia, in Italy’s Liguria region, is believed to have drifted from France, Italia media reported on Monday.

 NEW YORK  - Earlier last month, President Donald Trump described the agreement to "normalise relations and forge a new relationship" between the UAE-Bahrain and

 ROME – The devastating economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic has done little to dampen Italians’ desire to travel to the UK, a senior British diplomat said

 LAMPEDUSA – The Finance Police have opened fire on a Tunisian fishing boat that ignored orders to stop, rammed the patrol boat and attempted to flee, police sources said on Wednesday.

 ROME - Little over three weeks since being controversially ejected from the US Open after accidentally hitting a line judge in the throat when striking a ball in

 ROME - Reviving an old tradition, the Algerian Ambassador to Rome, H.E.

 ROME – Italy will take in 300 refugees left homeless following the blaze earlier this month that destroyed Greece’s largest migrant camp on the island of Lesbos, government sources said on Wednesd

 ROME – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has urged Pope Francis not to renew a two-year-old agreement between China and the Vatican, Italian media reported on Monday.

 ROME – COVID-19 has, in appreciable ways, been good for women. A bold statement, indeed. But that is the case, according to a leading senior executive.

 ROME -- With two important anniversaries coming up - the Bicentenary of the death of John Keats' in 2021, followed by that of Shelley the year immediately after, heritage and conservation expert N

 MONZA – Police have found ‘precious’ books, stolen from a London warehouse almost four years ago, concealed under a house at a rural Romanian property, Monza police said Friday.

 In the photograph above it looks as though Saint John Paul II is blessing the Trumps. Washington Archbishop Wilton Gregory called Trump’s visit ‘reprehensible.’

Transcript as delivered of remarks by UN World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley to today’s virtual session of the UN Security Council on the Protection of Civilians in Arme

 FLORENCE – Police have made dozens of arrests, seizing tonnes of cocaine and millions of euros, in a maxi anti-drug operation targeting a key Albanian drug trafficking cartel, local sources said o