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 ROME - Dozens of ships are ready to set sail in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, according to reporters at Il Fatto Quotidiano.

 SIRACUSA, Sicily – Sunday afternoon, at 15:03 local time, the MV Ocean Viking, search and rescue vessel chartered by SOS MEDITERRANEE in partnership with the IFRC, was deliberately targeted in a s

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 ROME - Italy is offering to send troops to Ukraine for demining operations, Palazzo Chigi, the prime minister's office, has been quoted as saying, in what may be a departure from Italy's staunch o

 TRAPANI, Sicily - The Ocean Viking, the humanitarian ship of the NGO SOS Méditerranée, rescued a rubber boat in international waters north of Libya, Saturday night, writes Il Fatto Quotidiano.

 ROME/GENEVA/NEW YORK – More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths, according to a new Integ

  ROME -- Italian consultants at the World Food Programme who have been at the UN agency for as long as 10, 15 or 20 years and promised a post but never given one, are being chopped by not having t

 LAMPEDUSA - At least 26 people have died in a shipwreck about 14 nautical miles south of Lampedusa. Two boats carrying 97 people capsized, with 60 of them being rescued and brought ashore.

 ROME – Speaking in an interview with La Stampa, later reported by Il Fatto Quotidiano, Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said “I think that the occupation of Gaza and certain serious acts in the Wes

 ROME – The Eternal City and The Pearl by the Sea have signed, hand in hand, a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the field of cultural heritage, under which the Capitoline Superintende

ROME – The World Food Programme announces that the population in El Fasher faces starvation and humanitarian needs continue to escalate as access to the besieged city has been cut off despite WFP’s

 ROME -- African poverty-buster Godfrey 'crocburger' Magwenzi, the No.

ROME – Gaza faces the grave risk of famine as food consumption and nutrition indicators have reached their worst levels since the conflict began, according to data shared in the latest Integrated F

Abuja — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced it will suspend all emergency food and nutrition support for 1.3 million people in north-east Nigeri

 ROME – Amid concern over ICCROM’s hiring of a constellation of cronies from the FAO by the cultural quango's Director-General, Aruna Francesca Maria Gujral, dipl

ROME – The recruitment by ICCROM of highly paid, officialy retired FAO consultants could be in direct violation of the United Nations Pension Fund rules of which the cultural quango is a participan

 ROME – The appointment of multi-millionaire heiress Annick Van Houtte to a sinecure at a Rome-based UN cultural quango has called into question again the leaders

  Sir, Stephanie Hodge, a former senior manager within the UN system, has publicly revisited her grievances about her departure—echoin

 ROME – The ICCROM cultural heritage quango director general Aruna Francesca Gujral is “running unchecked, squandering public money on her friends while crying for an increase in funding,” diplomat

 ROME – The proposed 2026-2027 regular budget for troubled ICCROM completely ignores the likelihood of the United States pullings its funding for the Rome-based c

 VIENNA -- Rafael Grossi, the UN atomic agency chief, proudly touts gender parity at the IAEA while performing a comical tightrope act—distancing himself from the very DEI policies he once champion

 VIENNA -- Rafael Grossi, the IAEA’s fun-loving Director General, is parading as a reformer while presiding over a cesspool of privilege and hypocrisy that inside

 ROME – An ‘honorary judge’ has ruled that the trail of Italian Insider’s chief editor on charges of allefgedly threatening the FAO chief economist, Maxim Torero,

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