ROME -- The Italy-Africa Summit, which was being held by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s Government Monday and Tuesday in the Italian Senate building, is

 NAPLES – After allegedly physically abusing his wife for more than 20 years, a drunken 56-year-old Neapolitan was finally arrested after his two sons locked him out on the balcony to stop him from

 ROME - The Italian Chamber of Deputies has voted in favour of a controversial agreement which would see migrants arriving in Italy be deported to Albania.

 ANZIO – British, American and Italian soldiers and veteran’s families paid tribute to the English veteran and campaigner for expatriate rights Harry Shindler dur

 VIENNA – The International Atomic Energy Agency has held a “joint nuclear management school” with China under which 40 young nuclear professionals from 23 countr

  ROME – The embattled World Food Programme Executive Director Cindy McCain has come under fire from senior WFP executives who claim she has not been seen at the

  ROME – Saudi Arabia can be expected to take “bold moves” that could lead to the establishment of a two state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, exper

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis lashed out at gluttony Wednesday and called for eating habits to be “moderate and socially responsible,” saying that Western societie

 VIENNA – The ambitious IAEA chief Rafael Grossi’s laudable Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship programme aimed at boosting women’s opportunities in nuclear technol

 VIENNA – International Atomic Energy Agency supremo Rafael Grossi has raised accountants’ eyebrows at the purportedly cash-strapped organization by splashing out some 1 million euros on a fleet of

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis in his traditional Christmas Day Urbi et Orbi (to the city and the world) address called for the Palestinian question to be resolved and the release by Hamas terrorists

 Under a recent conciliation agreement at Milan University, all foreign-language lecturers, or Lettori, have received salary arrears in full, and those still in s

 ROME – Journalists from the Foreign Press Association in Italy bade farewell to the palazzo in 'Humility Street,' a stone’s throw from the Trevi Fountain, where

 ROME – The popularity of World Food Programme Executive Cindy McCain among staff has plummeted as staff accuse the maverick Republican party supporter and person

 VIENNA – Consultants at the International Atomic Energy Agency are incandescent over what they say is the hiring of a Chinese national by the German Director of

 ROME -- Renowned Tunisian-Egyptian actress Hend Sabry has resigned from her role as a goodwill ambassador the World Food Programme amid growing protests by staffers and the Arab world over WFP Exe

 MILAN – The State University of Milan signed landmark compensation agreements with 11 British and other foreign lecturers this week as part of a watershed

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis began a busy Monday of public audiences by saying that he was ill and not able to read his speech but the Vatican chief spokesman sai

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 TEHRAN – An Iranian delegation has embarked on a “transformative study tour in China with FAO support” in a development that is sure to raise Western concern ove

 ROME – As if hiring the IAEA chief’s daughter to a staff job in his cabinet office over the heads of other young consultants were not enough, FAO chief QU Dongyu

 VIENNA – United Nations employees in the Austrian capital have “valid concerns” about suspected nepotism in the appointment of IAEA chief Rafael Grossi’s wife to

 VIENNA – Concern by donor countries over rampant nepotism at the CTBTO has mounted amid speculation that Cinthia Echavarria Grossi, the fun-loving wife of the Ar

 VIENNA -- After FAO consultants raised questions over the meteoric rise of Rafael Grossi's daughter to the office of the Chinese DG of the UN poverty-busting agency, Qu Dongyu, diplomatic sources

 MESSINA, Sicily – The rector of Messina University, Salvatore Cuzzocrea, has announced his resignation over an expenses scandal that erupted when the university’