ROME – Nigerian entrepreneurs will travel to Italy next month for a Nigeria – Italy business mission July 19-21, jointly organised by the Association "Nigeria - Italy Business" and the Italian Ass

 ROME -- As reported previously in The Italian Insider, the European Commission opened infringement

 LONDON -- A BBC current affairs documentary on whistleblowers exposing sexual abuse and other malfeasance at the United Nations features the nefarious activities of

 ROME – When Italian lawyer Antonio Capuano set off a storm by arranging for the Russian Embassy to pay for League leader Matteo Salvini’s air fare to Moscow recently, Italian media recalled that t

 MILAN – Poland has reached an agreement to buy as many as 32 AW149 helicopters from the Italian defence giant Leonardo in a deal estimated to be worth up to some

 ROME – After as long as 69 years in business supplying English books and publications to the Eternal City, the Anglo American Bookshop is moving from its histori

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis, frustrated by ill health that led him to cancel a July trip to Africa, is considering resigning from St.

 ROME -- Chinese media hailed the opening this week of the new IFAD East and Southern Africa regional office, underlining Beijing’s interest in using the UN agency and its development projects as a

 ROME – According to the Moscow diplomatic office in Italy, the Russian embassy "assisted Matteo Salvini and the people who accompanied him in the purchase of airline tickets" to Moscow, which were

ROME – Italy’s Democratic Party (PD), came out on top at local elections on Sunday, as the far right wing 'post-Fascist' party, Brothers of Italy, gained momentum, fuelling its leader, Giorgia Melo

PERUGIA – The Court of Appeal of Perugia exonerated the defendants accused of kidnapping Alma Shalabayeva on Thursday, after more than nine years of investigation and almost ten hours in the counci

NAPLES - Ed Llewellyn, the new British ambassador to Italy, held his first Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth II at Villa Doria d’Angri after three years of pandemic cancellations.

STOCKHOLM – The Western film and television industry’s “entrenched and closed off” nature toward diverse representation can contribute to radicalisation of second and third generation migrants from

 ROME – The father of the Italian ambassador killed in Congo while travelling in a WFP convoy has called the UN agency “immoral” for insisting its’ employees, who are under investigation in Italy o

 ROME – IFAD’s upcoming presidential election may leave the development bank for small farmers vulnerable to manipulation by China, increasing Beijing’s control o

 NAIROBI -- IFAD presidential candidate Raychelle Omamo, the Kenyan foreign minister, frequently has hit headlines in the Kenyan capital Nairobi in the past for h

 ROME – Italy’s education ministry, seeking to head off EU infringement proceedings for decades of racist discrimination against UK and other foreign university lecturers, has ordered Italian unive

 ROME –  Kenya’s foreign minister, Rachelle Awuor Omamo, has emerged as the front runner to become the next president of IFAD, and the first woman to hold the post, after Western donor countries ye

 MONTE CASSINO – Polish veterans of the battle of Monte Cassino and officials from Warsaw have attended solemn ceremonies to mark the 78th anniversary of the Allied victory, in which the final assa

 ROME – Five little known candidates, each from a different continent, have thrown their hats in the ring to succeed Togolese kingpin Gilbert Houngbo as the president of the International Fund for

 ROME -- Scores of members of the Ukrainian community in Italy have staged a protest outside the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), calling for Russia to be expelled from

 ROME -- Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune will make a two-day state visit to Italy next week, underlining Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi's efforts to

 ROME - The English Theatre of Rome presents NSFW, by Lucy Kirkwood, directed by and with Daniel Roy Connelly, produced by Gaby Ford, from May 20 at the Teatro Arciliuto.  

 ROME – FAO’s Ombudswoman is investigating complaints that the UN agency abusively is obliging staff and their spouses and children to produce Covid-19 vacc

 ROME -- The International Fund for Agriculture and Development is remaining tight-lipped over the identity of candidates to replace Togolese Gilbert Houngbo as president of the poverty-busting org