ROME-A scow ferry boat with immigrants from Libya sank off the African coast causing death of at least 17 migrants while some 200 have been found alive, a naval spokesm

 REYHANLI, Turkey –Following his 152-day kidnap last year, reporter Domenico Quirico blamed a rebel unit previously known for helping journalists -The Free Syrian Army-aligned Farouq Brigades has m

ROME -The OSCE has denounced the deteriorating media freedom situation in Ukraine including kidnapping and attacks on journalists and the broadcasting infrastruc

ROME-Pope Francis has confirmed his trip to Sri Lanka in January 2015, and he might also visit the Philippines, Vatican sources said Thursday.

ROME-BIT, the Milan International Tourism Exchange gets a new all-in-one concept.

ROME-Strengthening a common energy policy on a worldwide scale in order to ensure a diversified, reliable, and economically sustainable energy supply was the goal of th

ROME-Automaker Fiat Chrysler Group has decided to open a branch in Finland with engineer Alessio Castelli, boasting over ten years of experience in the FIAT group, as manager for the new Scandinavi

NEW YORK-When supporters began celebrating Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s fourth term even before the results of the Algerian presidential election had been confirmed, it was cl

ROME-I founded IPS in 1964 and, until I left in 2001, I tried to give space to Latin American writers - I did the same with film directors for the time I was  RAI director for Latin America ( 1969-

ROME-Following Silvio Berlusconi’s recent faux pas on Nazism, the European People’s Party now faces a dilemma whether or not to expel Forza Italia risking defeat in the upcoming elections.

ROME-Thousands of Christians have gathered in the Chinese city of Wenzhou to form a human shield to protect the Sanjiang Church following demolition threats from the Communist party, Church sources

ROME-A crowd of some 800,000 pilgrims from around the world attended the historic simultaneous canonisation of two popes,  the Vatican press office said Monday.

ROME - In case you missed it, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the final part of a report April 13 which says bluntly we have 15 years to avoid exceeding the “safe” threshold

ROME-As Christendom awaits the canonisation of two beloved popes, the Eternal City battles to welcome as many as seven million people for the historic moment.

VATICAN CITY– Pope Francis marked Easter Sunday by urging the world to “defeat the plague of hunger, aggravated by conflicts and the immense waste with which we are often complicit.”

ROME-An astonishing 382 out of 552 websites checked in 2013 did not respect European consumer law, according to the results of a concerted action co-ordinated by the European Commission.

LONDON-Revanchist nationalists of different stripes have just won 65 percent of the vote in post-democratic Hungary --The mystical Jew-baiting Jobbik party increased its share to 20 percent, so no

ROME – A staffer at a United Nations food agency used an alias to cover his tracks when arranging liaisons with under age call girls in the Eternal City, judicial sources say.

ROME– Former FAO chief Jacques Diouf is being held under house arrest in his native Senegal following a tiff with Senegalese President Macky Sall, diplomatic sources say.

Cape May, NJ--Blaming the Palestinians for the apparent breakdown in Secretary of State John Kerry’s ill-fated shuttle diplomacy is like blaming the victim of a mugging for the crime.