MILAN – Italian foreign fighter, Maria Giulia ‘Fatima’ Sergio, was sentenced to nine years in prison by a Milan Court Monday for terrorism.

 ROME – Anti-terrorism and security measures have been strengthened in Italy in the run up to Christmas following the attacks in Berlin and Ankara.

 ROME – Italian police have arrested a 20-year-old Rom and denounced another aged 16 on charges of stealing a bag and mo

 ROME - The FAO held Friday the gender event, "Step it up together for rural women to end hunger and malnutrition,” in which speakers discussed the importance of focussing on rural areas and the fe

 ROME -- Civil war has broken out in the Knights of Malta after the Order’s English Grand Master, Fra' Matthew Festing, thre

 ROME -- French multinational mass media conglomerate Vivendi took 12 percent in shares of media mogul Silvio Berlusconi's television empire Mediaset, and still aims for 20, causing a direct clash

 ROME -- The Istituto Affari Internazionali (International Affairs Institute) IAI contributed to the organisation of a half-day event entitled ‘Youth and Intercultural Dialogue: Italian and GCC Voi

 CATANIA -- The smuggler transporting migrants from Libya last year before the ship sank, causing the deaths of over 700 migrants, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison, judicial sources said Tu

 ROME -- A total of 1,134 migrants were rescued in the Central Mediterranean throughout one day in nine different rescue operations coordinated by the Roman Coast Guard’s Operation Centre, the Ital

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis called His Holiness Father Tawadros II, Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alessandria, to express his condole

 ROME -- The UN development bank for small farmers, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), says it will disclose candidates to

 VATICAN CITY -- In a speech released by the Vatican for the Day of Peace in January 2017 (Giornata della Pace), Pope Francis asks for nuclear weap

 ROME --U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S.

 ROME -- As international banks cannot guarantee their contribution to Italy's oldest bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena’s recapitalisation, the Treasury is ready to allow it another week, despite nati

 ROME -- The Sant’Egidio Catholic community expressed solidarity Monday for the attack against the Egyptian Coptic Church carried out in Cairo by Saint Mark’s Cathedral, killing innocent civilians,

 LIMA -- Results of a survey circulating Monday show that 75 percent of Peruvians believe their ex-first lady Nadine Heredia’s new FAO job to be a strategy to evade justice, newspaper Perú21 report