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SARAJEVO-- The sickening crack from a Serbian sharpshooter's rifle made my American colleague jump bolt upright in the driver's seat.

 RIYADH -- UNIDO director general Gerd Müller begins his second term with a costly jamboree in the Saudi capital Sunday but internal critics describe the UN agency as troubled monarchy where qualif

ROME – An Anglo-Australian family that had been living off-grid in an Abruzzo forest has been ordered to send their three children, aged 8 and twins 6, to an “educational community”, accompanied by

 ROME –- Experts gathered at the Euro-Gulf Information Centre in Rome to discuss the global crisis of learning poverty and the need for education in emergencies, with the goal of raising awareness

 VIENNA – The head of the UNIDO Somalia investment team, Ygor Scarcia, has been suspended and placed under investigation on suspicion of allegedly pumping the UN agency’s money into fraudulent sche

 ROME – British and Commonwealth military personnel, diplomats and civilians gathered at the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in the Roman district of Testaccio to mark Remembrance Day, 80 years af

 ROME – Confimpresaitalia, an organisation of small businesses, convened in Rome for their annual national council, presided over by the Consul General of the Republic of Sierra Leone in Rome, Dr L

GAZA, Palestine – Three weeks into the ceasefire, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has distributed food parcels to

 ROME – Five Italian mountaineers have died in two separate incidents in Nepal after severe weather hit the country, the Italian Foreign Ministry said.

KINGSTON / HAVANA / PORT-AU-PRINCE– As the full extent of Hurricane Melissa’s destruction emerges, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is intensifying relief efforts in t

 PADUA – On Saturday, students assembled in Padua’s Palazzo Bo to mark one year since the Novi Sad tragedy in Northern Serbia.

PANJAKENT- Driving in the remote Seven Lakes region of Tajikistan in Central Asia, takes tremendous skill. The roads are in poor condition, and single lanes are used for two-way traffic.

 ROME -- Finnish Minister of Defence Antti Häkkänen and his Italian counterpart Guido Crosetto officially have confirmed Italy’s participation in NATO’s Forward Land Forces (FLF) in Finland.

SAMARKAND-In this stunning Uzbek city, the most popular item on the menu,is Plov the national dish, a culinary masterpiece, cooked with rice, lamb or beef, carrots, onions, and cumin.

 PADUA -- OliviCultura di Pace is a grassroots joint-initiative between the Associazione di Cooperazione e Solidarietà (ACS), a secular and not-for-profit organisation based in Padua, and the Arab

BISHKEK-They call this mountainous country the Switzerland of central Asia but the traffic jams that force even foreign visitors to drive on the wrong side of the road in this sand-swept capital of

  ROME – On Wednesday, the Italian Supreme Court announced its decision to overturn the ruling by the Bologna Court of Appeal to extradite Ukrainian Serhii Kuznietsov who previously was arrested in