ROME -- Following the EU elections, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni reaffirmed the Brothers of Italy (FDI) as Italy’s dominant political party, however, figures show that despite this victory the p

  ROME – FAO Director General Qu Dongyu surprised senior executives at the UN agency the other day by telling his subordinates they should work “16 hours a day,”

  ROME -- A cruise ship in the port of Brindisi which was expected to host 2,600 security agents for the G7 summit, was found in “inhumane sanitary conditions” trade unions have said. 

 ROME – Speculation that the ambitious Dutch agronomist Hans Hoogeveen has begun campaigning to be the next FAO director general has alarmed members of the Dutch community in the Eternal City after

 ROME – The FAO, in an apparent reprisal, has not renewed the contract of an Italian consultant who announced last year he was, together with other like-minded co

  ROME -- Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party won the most votes in the European Parliamentary Elections, securing 28.8 per cent of the votes, according to projections issued by

  ROME -- Amanda Knox announced her intention to appeal after being reconvicted of slander for accusing Patrick Lumumba of the 2007 murder of British exchange stu

 VENICE -- A ‘Superyacht’ parked outside an exhibition so focused on highlighting ecological balance, simply serves as an odious reminder of how far we haven’t co

  ROME – The diplomatic community has been astonished by the suspension of the respected director of communications at the International Fund for Agricultural Dev

  ROME -- The Small and Medium Business Owners' Confederation (Conf PMI Italia) has celebrated its third national congress in Pompeii, where main founder Tommaso Cerciello was unanimously

  VENICE -- With massive destruction, and

 ROME – As the Food and Agriculture Organization prepares for a crucial Council meeting next month, the embattled UN agency has been rocked by increasing tension

  ROME -- A five-month-old baby has died during a crossing attempt on the Central Mediterranean Route according to the municipality of Lampedusa. 

  VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis has now apologised after allegedly claiming there was “too much faggotry” in the seminaries during a speech to 200 Italian bishops, as reported in Dagospia and confir

 ROME – World Food Programme Executive Director Cindy McCain is seen as ‘a disaster’ by senior staff at the UN agency, rarely leaves her office in the Eternal Cit

 ROME – A high-ranking delegation of Cuban opposition politicians visiting Europe is lobbying the EU and Britain to end development aid payments and financial sup

 ROME -- Angelo Onorato, husband of MEP Francesca Donato, has been found strangled in his car in Palermo, police said. 

  ROME -- The Italian president, Sergio Mattarella, declared in a statement on Thursday that “the mafia is always lurkin

  ROME -- Baris Boyun, an alleged Turkish mafia boss was arrested on Wednesday morning in Viterbo, according to sources from the Antimafia Investigation Directorate. 

  CASSINO --The Duchess of Edinburgh flanked by a sprightly 100-year-old veteran former warrior led ceremonies at the town of Cassino Sunday to commemorate the sacrifice of 20,000 British and Commo

 ROME — Well-placed sources inside the Food and Agriculture Organization report rising speculation that Italian Maurizio Martina, the UN agency's deputy director general, will run for director gene

  ROME -- Earthquake tremors of up to 4.4 magnitude n the Richter scale hit the Phlegraean Fields area near Naples on Mo