VATICAN CITY – Walking with a stick, Pope Francis opened the celebration of a solemn Palm Sunday Mass in St Peter’s Square on Sunday, a day after being discharged from hospital where he was treate

 ROME -- Pope Francis will remain hospitalized at the Gemelli Polyclinic for several days to treat what is described as a respiratory infection, the Vatican said, throwing into doubt whether he wil

  TBILISI, GEORGIA – Georgians hailed their Serie A Napoli club striker Khvicha ‘Kvara’ Kvaratskhelia’s engagement to glamorous fiancée Nitsa Tavadze, climaxing h

 ROME – A professor at the Bocconi University has demanded Italian Insider’s chief editor pay him as much as 130,000 euros for civil damages he claims he is owed

 ROME – Ambassadors in the Eternal City climaxed Commonwealth Day by raising plastic glasses of prosecco to toast King Charles III but the envoys were divided ove

    ROME – Harry Shindler, one of the last surviving British veterans of the battle of Anzio in 1944, a tireless, anti-fascist campaigner who spent decades tracin

 ROME – Italian officials preparing for an inspection next month of the Eternal City’s capacity to host the EXPO 2030 are concerned that the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director Gene

 ROME – The FAO and a constellation of other Chinese-run UN agencies have hired softwear engineers from hi-tech companies such as Bytedance, Huawei, Zoom, and ZTE software to run surveillance of st

 Every Italian prime minister for the past 30 years, from Carlo Ciampi’s administration up to the present government led by Giorgia Meloni has been told by the Eu

 ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organization’s internal oversight investigators carried out covert surveillance of former Assistant Director General Roberto Rido

 ROME –The election of radical feminist Ellie Schlein as the new secretary of the previously flagging Democratic Party boosted support for the former communist grouping by as much as thre

 WARSAW - US president Joe Biden and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met with the Bucharest Nine Summit to discuss how to proceed in Ukraine.

 VIENNA -- As Russian President Vladimir Putin threatens to withdraw from the Comprehensive Nucear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and resume nuclear testing, two Vienna-b

 NEW YORK -- In Algeria, the old guard is back in power. And the repressive measures have resumed.

 WARSAW – Ukrainian authorities revoked the press passes of the two Italian reporters Alfredo Bosco and Andrea Sceresini – that are now stuck in Kiev. 

 ROME -- When the young Spanish finance geek Alvaro Lario took over as President of the troubled International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) last year, hopes were high among staff and We

  ROME – The Italian-Palestinian stylist, Jamal Taslaq

 ROME – The UN World Food Programme claims it is accelerating its humanitarian response to help earthquake victims in northern Syria but observers say “UN incompetence” and Russian spitefulness are

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis Monday said he was “deeply saddened” by the earthquakes that have killed more than 1700 people in Turkey and Syria, the Vatican said.

 ROME -- British and other foreign lecturers at Italian universities appealed Friday to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to adhere to an ultimatum by the Eur

 BRUSSELS – The European Commission said Friday it will take Italy to the EU Court of Justice if the Italian Government fails to pay within two months arrears in wages and pensions of British and o

 ROME – Applications are invited from authors of original short stories to send copies of an example of their recent work to compete for the Italian Insider literary prize established by the newspa

 VATICAN CITY -- Australian Cardinal George Pell, an outspoken conservative prelate whose attempt, at request of Pope Francis to reform Vatican finances, was inte