BRESCIA -- A 30 year old Italian woman who was trying to make her way out to Syria to join rebel fighters linked to so-called Islamic State has been stopped in her Lombardian hometown.  She had re

 ROME -- The turnover for mafia run ecological projects across the world is growing faster than GDP, it has been reported.  In 2016 it’s calculated that it reached a sum of 258 billion dollars, wit

 ROME -- The Chinese company Suning Commerce Group Ltd has bought the majority of Italian football club Inter Milan.  In a press conference in Nanchino to reveal the transfer of the ‘nerazzurro’ [b

 QANDIL, Iraqi Kurdistan -- “They’ve killed my uncle, massacred my friends in the street like animals.

ROME – FAO Director General Jose Graziano da Silva surprised donors this week by disclosing that he intends to widen the brief of the famine-fighting UN agency to include migration, an area that is

ROME—Italy will lose as much 2 billion worth of orders for Finmeccanica defence equipment with India after the Indian government placed state-run industrial concern ENI on the black list in apparen

 ROME -- When it comes to trying to understand the issues surrounding “Brexit,”—migration, sovereignty, taxes, competitiveness—it seems that

ROME – British expatriates in the Eternal City climaxed a debate on Brexit by voting symbolically for the UK to remain in the European Union, accepting by majority the arguments elucidated by the A

 ROME -- There’s been a new shipwreck in the Mediterranean.  The boat, which was carrying over 500 migrants, got into difficulty just off the coast of Libya where two Italian Navy vessels went to t

 ROME -- Prince and Princess Akishino of Japan paid an Official Visit to Italy, in which they were welcomed by President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, during a trip to Rome recently.

 ROME -- MPs are currently running an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons to note that a number of discrimination cases brought before the Brescia Court of Appeal by British lecturers working

 ROME -- Italy and the United Arab Emirates have renewed their links with a large number of joint projects set for 2016-2017.  They have around 30 collaboration projects, which focus particularly i

 ROME -- Oil-rich Venezuela continues its slide into poverty, misery and oppression, turning Hugo Chavez’s dream of “socialism for the 21^st century” into an Orwellian nightmare.

 ROME – Andy Murray laid down an impressive marker in the last tournament before the year’s second Grand Slam, beating Novak Djokovic 6-3, 6-3 in the final of the Rome Masters.

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has opened the door for female deacons in a surprising and historic move for the Catholic Church.  The pontiff announced he would soon be establishing a commission to

 Rome - Cosa Nostra’s top fugitive has been using British telecommunications 

SULAYMANIYA, Iraq -- “Our next enemies will be the Shia”, says Lt.