ROME -- The President of Italy's Chamber of Deputies has refused to exhibit a collection of photographs of torture carried out by the Syrian regime in the country's prisons, taken by the former Sy

 ROME -- Demand for Italian cosmetic products in the Middle East is on the increase despite years of war and forced displacement in the region, with Jordan-based consumer holding company Nader Grou

 ROME -- A witness has told Italian investigators he saw Giulio Regeni, the Italian researcher murdered in Cairo, being arrested and taken aw

 ROME -- Pope Francis departed for Cuba on Friday morning on the first leg of his 12th international papal voyage, where he is set to make a stop off for a historic meeting with Russian Orthodox pa

 ROME -- Italy politicians and local communities alike have paid tribute to the tens of thousands of Italians killed during an ethnic cleansing perpetrated by Yugoslav Partisans towards the end of

 ROME -- In the wake of the murder of Italian researcher Giulio Regeni, the Egyptian tourism minister has cancelled a scheduled visit to Milan for the annual BIT international tourism trade fair at

 ROME -- Whilst the meeting between Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Iraqi Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi got off to an awkward start with the guard of honour getting it wrong and welcoming

 BOLZANO -- Money that seemed bound for a humanitarian organisation, given by thousands of people, who were for the most part elderly and resident abroad, to a trustworthy priest, only for it repor

 VATICAN CITY -- Marking Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent, Pope Francis spoke in Saint Peter’s Square calling for a redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor.

 VATICAN CITY --  Haydar al-Abadi, the Prime Minister of Iraq had a private audience with Pope Francis to discuss the plight of embattled Christians in Iraq, Vatican sources said,

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has decided not to visit Mexican paedophilia victims who asked to meet him on his upcoming trip to the country

 ROME –  An open letter protesting against the murder of Cambridge student Giulio Regeni, thought to be at the hands of the Egyptian security services, has been signed by over 4,600 academics world

 NEW YORK -- In the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria’s president, promised constitutional reforms.

 ROME -- A Palermo court has sentenced six members of a human trafficking cartel to up to six years and four months for smuggling migrants into and out of Italy, in a landmark case for the issue,

 ROME -- The state-run Italian Railways company, Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), has just launched a new venture with Iranian Railways (RAI) to put new high-speed rail links in place between Teheran and

 ROME -- With 17 months to seek out over 100 businesses in 22 countries Toulouse Business School graduate Jules Coignard and his friend Raphael Masvigner have not set themselves an easy task.  They

 ROME -- Norwegian Air, the third low-cost airline in Europe, focuses on Italy, choosing Rome Fiumicino airport as a new base of opera

 ROME -- In Monday's phone call between Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and British Prime Minister David Cameron, it has emerged, the British leader covered various dossiers and the theme of th

 ROME -- Italy is one of the top countries for foreign language learning, with 98 percent of adolescents studying at least two, however only 16 in 100 then know how to use them.  So why is this?

 ROME – Opposition politicians are up in arms over a "secret contract" between the Italian government and United Arab Emirates air com

 ROME -- We are witnessing the slow agony of the dream of European integration, disintegrating without a single demonstration occurrin

 VATICAN CITY --  Pope Francis will have an historic meeting with Russian Orthodox patriarch Kirill in a move towards greater reconciliation between the two churches, the Vatican announced Friday.