ROME – Pope Francis has announced that he is to set up child protection task forces as he pledged “all out battle” against abuse. He condemned those who engage in abuse as "tools of satan."

ROME – Following pressure from the United States not to use Chinese tech giant Huawei's products for the development of Italy’s 5G infrastructure because of cybersecurity risks, the League party ha

ROME - The Five Star Movement (M5S) are pressuring the State Property Agency to formalise a complaint calling for the eviction of squatters from the Esquiline building occupied by the neo-fascist p

ROME - Low cost airlines Ryanair and Wizzair have been fined millions for their cabin luggage charges.

ROME –  Leading Pennsylvania politician Mark Rozzi, nationally known for his unwavering defence of survivors of child sexual abuse, and himself a victim of rape at the hands of a priest, called for

ROME – Political tension mounted in the Eternal City after reports that the daughter of North Korea's former envoy to Rome, Jo Song-Gil, was taken back to Pyongyang from Italy by force in November.

ROME - On the eve of the Anti-Paedophilia Summit, French author of ‘Sodoma’ Frederic Martel spoke at the Eternal City’s Foreign Press Association, reiterating the claim pronounced in his book that

ROME – The growing possibility of facing a ‘no deal’ Brexit scenario would have considerable implications for Italy, whose exports to the United Kingdom exceeded 23 billion euros in 2017.

ROME – Tuesday morning at around 8.00 a.m., a fire triggered the evacuation and closure of the city’s Ciampino airport.

ROME – Members of Italy’s 5-Star Movement (M5S) have voted in favour of parliamentary immunity for League Leader Matteo Salvini, in a poll held on the M5S online platform Rousseau on Monday.

ROME - The Italian National Press Federation (FNSI) announced their solidarity with the Jewish community affected and offended by the resurgence of anti-Semitism that took place in Paris and in Ita

ROME – One in three songs played on national and private radio stations in Italy must be Italian, said League party MP Alessandro Morelli, who has submitted a bill in the Lower House that would mak

ROME – The Carabinieri Headquarters for the Protection of Cultural Heritage (TPC) returned an important 16th century book, ‘Clarissima et Facillima in Quatuor facra Iefu Chrifti Evangelia,’ to Belg

ROME - Italian President Sergio Mattarella has signed three decrees granting pardon to three elderly men who murdered family members in despair.

ROME - Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio has unveiled the Five Star Movement’s (M5S) manifesto for the countries it will ally with for the European Union (EU) elections, including a new Greek all

ROME - Equilibrio Festival 2019, entitled Northern Lights in Rome, Aurora Borealis, (Revontuli in Finnish) dedicated to north-European countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) is th

ROME - Imperial Rome has been brought back to life thanks to Rome Reborn™, an innovative international project that makes it possible to have the moving experience of touring the ancient city at th

ROME - Once, walking along the Gloucester Road, my habitually elegantly-dressed father was accosted by a bloke, who had stumbled into the cold out of The Zetland Arms, with the words, “Got a light,

ROME – The Italian Davis Cup team have been drawn alongside USA and Canada in group F of the tournament’s Finals in November.

ROME - French President Emmanuel Macron has decided to send France’s ambassador to Italy, Christian Masset, back to the Eternal City after having withdrawn him back to Paris for consultations follo

ROME - Organised crime generated some 24.5 billion euros in business in the Italian agriculture sector in 2018, a rise of 12.4 per cent with respect to the previous year, according to the annual ‘a

ROME – Eradicating poverty and fighting hunger is front and centre of the Pope’s mind, who says we can’t pass the buck on the issue.

ROME – The state-controlled railway system Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) has announced it will enter negotiations with Easyjet and Delta Air Lines to work out a rescue plan for financially under pressu