Christopher Matthews, who has died at age 79, was a Russian-born, bohemian godson of Graham Greene with a larger than

ROME – The UN Agencies cricket team won the Queen’s Championship Cup, beating the Commonwealth Club in the 2022 final, organisers said. 

 ROME – Prosecutors have requested the indictment of two World Food Programme employees accused of manslaughter for their alleged role in the death of the Italian Ambassador and his Carabiniere gua

 ROME – A Commonwealth Remembrance Day service was held in the Rome War Cemetery in Testaccio.

ROME – Police reported that a Naples policewoman was raped directly outside of the police station on Thursday, and subsequent investigation led to the arrest of a Bangladeshi migrant as the arreste

 ROME – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's center-right government was sworn in at the Quirinal Palace Saturday with Italy's first woman prime minister pledging "to serve with pride."

 ROME – As FAO Director General Qu Dongyu prepares for probable re-election to a second term, diplomats from member states have been trying to make sense of a ram

 According to the Polish envoy, Pro-Russian tendencies of partners will not sway FDI leader Giorgia Meloni

  ROME – Iran has responded to requests by Italy for the release of an arrest Italian travel blogger, Alessia Piperno, who apparently was caught up inadvertently

 ROME -- The World Food Programme has denied that there was a conflict of interest in the Boston Consulting Group's pro bono partnership with the UN agency involv

 ROME – The Brothers of Italy leader Giorgia Meloni was poised Monday to become Italy’s first female prime minister after her centre right coalition won over 44 p

 ROME – Azione party leader, Carlo Calenda and former Prime Minister and leader of Italia Viva reached a deal on Thursday to form an alliance between their two centrist parties.

  ROME – The United Kingdom is hopeful that a resolution will be possible to solve the longstanding thorny issue of UK citizens’ driving licences in Italy, the British Ambassador, Lord Edward Llewe

 ROME – The annual Commonwealth Cricket Cup is set to return to Rome on Sept 24 for its 2022 edition.

 ROME – The Secretary General of the Farnesina, Ettore Sequi met the Ambassador of Poland to Italy, Anna Maria Anders on Thursday at the ministry to talk about the communication between countries r

 ROME – In the lead-up to the Sept 25 elections, Carlo Calenda, leader of Azione, backed out of the election pact with the Democratic Party (PD) on Sunday.

 ROME – Italian President Sergio Mattarella accepted Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s resignation on Thursday evening, dissolving Parliament, and calling for new elections on Sept 25. 

 ROME -- Prime Minister Mario Draghi went to the Quirinal Palace Thursday, confirming his resignation to President Sergio Mattarella after three coalition parties snubbed him in a crucial Senate co

 ROME – ROME -- Italy's political crisis sparked by party differences over Ukraine and how to clear the Eternal City of mountains of rubbish deepened Friday after

LONDON – In response to a parliamentary question on Tuesday, the British government has pledged to ‘continue to advocate’ with Italy for a solution to the longstanding problem of failure by Italian

  ROME – The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has undergone “corporate capture” by accepting under its Chinese director general, Qu Dongyu, large scale funding from multinationals from th

 ROME -- The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has appointed its Spanish top finance executive, Alvaro Lario, to be its next president, choosing a champion of private sector in