ROME – Michael Ivy, who has died at age 70, started work at the British Council in Naples as a young teacher in 1980 and didn’t move to Rome from his beloved Nea

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 ROME - Italian Defence Ministry sources are hailing the arrival at last of the first parts of Italy’s long promised SAMP/T missile defence system in Eastern Euro

 PADUA -After years of declining numbers, the Padova Congress is ready to accelerate the return of conference tourism to the ancient Veneto city in a post pandemi

 ROME -- Former Mexico City Mayor 

 ROME – The FAO evaluation division director has alarmed observers by appointing a friend in Washington as a liason and evaluation officer at sky-high paid P-5 gr

Rome - The Italian Astronaut and Air Force Colonel, Walter Villadei, returned from the Axion 3 mission at the International Space Station with the Sovereign Military Order of Malta’s Flag which he

 ROME – Beleaguered WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain and her 'chopper pilot' chief of staff sought to boost her popularity with a charm offensive at a big all staff meeting of the UN agency to c

 HARARE – Loans made to Zimbabwe by the FAO to help poor farmers, worth as much as dlrs 8 million, are being syphoned off by corrupt government ministers and trad

 ROME -- Italy’s Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano has resigned from his role in the Italian government on Friday, after a week embroiled by his affair scandal and accusations of misusing public

 ROME -- The second round at the US Open ended with two extraordinary upsets.

 ROME -- Sicilian police have reportedly placed three crew members of the sunken Bayesian under formal investigation, including the second-in-command Tijs Koopman, as authorities try to understand

 ROME -- The captain of the luxury Bayesian yacht, which sank off the coast of Palermo last Monday and killed seven people, has been formally placed under investigation after being questioned again

 ROME -- As Italian politics reawakens after the summer break, it has not taken long to explode back into action.

 ROME -- The daughter of Mike Lynch, 18-year-old Hannah Lynch, has been confirmed dead after divers recovered her body on Friday, Giornale di Sicilia is reporting.

 KYIV – After two and a half years of war against the Russian invasion, Ukraine’s capital remains defiant.

 ROME -- The British tycoon Mike Lynch is among five people reported to be dead in the search for missing passengers after the sinking of a luxury yacht, the Giornale di Sicilia newspaper reported

 ROME -- The search has resumed for a second day to find the missing passengers, including four British tourists, of a luxury yacht which sank off the coast of Palermo on Monday morning.

 ROME -- The British tycoon Mike Lynch, 59, is understood to be missing along with his daughter, 18, after a luxury yacht sinking that has killed one man and left another six people feared drowned

 ROME -- The Italian government has been widely criticised after not sending any representative to a commemoration marking 80 years since the Nazi fascist massacre in Sant’Anna di Stazzema, Tuscany

ROME -- Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has named veteran Giuseppe Del Dio as the Deputy Director of the Security Information Department in a change to Italy’s secret services operations.

  ROME -- After chaos in recent weeks on Italy’s rail network, from broken down trains to hours-long delays, new construction work is likely to cause further disruptions until September, Trenitalia

 ROME – Over a third of the FAO Evaluation division employees in the Eternal City have sought medical help to cope with the stress of working under bullying direc