ROME – The Chinese Communist Party ordered FAO director general Qu Dongyu to appoint Mario Lubetkin as the head of the UN agency’s latin american division after the Uruguayan Communist party lobbi

 ROME – The Bahraini Ambassador to Italy, H.E. Dr Naser M. Y.

 TBILISI, Georgia – On May 26, 1991, Georgia declared independence, and every year since 1918 the Georgian people joyfully celebrate this day.

 ROME –  The United Nations World Food Programme thanks the Republic of Korea for their recent decision on increasing their annual contribuition of rice aid to the program.

 JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Ilaria De Rosa, an Italian flight assistant detained in a Jeddah prison in Saudi Arabia, received a visit from the Italian consul general on Monday.

ROME – LGBT+ rights have been the subject of friction between Canada and Italy, as a statement published by the Canadian Presidency stated that it was "concerned by some" of the positions "that Ita

 ROME -- The World Food Programme (WFP) called on the International Group of 7 (G7) to maintain their commitment to global food security in 2023 as new crises in Sudan,

 VATICAN CITY -- Following his meeting with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday, Pope Francis continued to condemn the use of arms and encourage mediation at his weekly Angelus address

ROME – Tempers have flared between the Italian and French governments over the migrant issue following comments from the French Interior Minister, Gérald Darmanin, and Stephane Séjourné, chairman o

 ROME – Arman Soldin, 32, was killed on Tuesday whilst reporting from the warzone in eastern Ukraine after being hit by rocket fire near Chasiv Yar, just west of Bakhmut. Soldin had previously been

 PORT SUDAN – The UN World Food Programme warned on Wednesday that an additional 2 - 2.5 million people in Sudan are expected to slip into hunger in the coming months as a result of the ongoing vio

 CAGLIARI, Sardinia -- A 44-year-old Polish mayor, Radosław Grzegorz Ostałkiewicz, died after falling from the fourth floor of a Sardinian hotel on Monday night, investigators announced. 

 MILAN – The Court of Appeal decided on Tuesday that Monica Rossana Bellini, the accountant of the former MEP Antonio Panzeri, should not be handed over to Belgium, Il Fatto Quotidiano reported Tue

 LAROQUE-DES-ALBERES, France – Namua Rahesha’s lounge-room is a pigsty … literally.

 ROME -- US President Joe Biden has chosen Jack Markell as the new American ambassador to Italy. 

 ROME – The number of people experiencing acute food insecurity and requiring urgent food, nutrition and livelihood assistance increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2022, with over a quarter

 VATICAN CITY– Addressing the Hungarian President, the Prime Minister and the many citizens who had gathered to listen, Pope Francis warned against rising European nationalism and called for a unif

 ROME – During a bilateral meeting with the UK’s Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, in London on Thursday, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni approved of Britain’s policy to send asylum seekers to Rwa

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis arrived in Hungary on Friday morning for a three-day pastoral visit in which he will meet with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Catholic leaders, members of local Catholic

 PERUGIA - Although the name Umbria Jazz might be misleading, the music festival located in “the green heart of Italy” has much more to offer than just jazz.

 ROME – A sit-in has been organised for 11 a.m.

 KHERSON – Repubblica journalist, Corrado Zunino, was injured during a drone attack on Wednesday which left his Ukrainian interpreter, Bogdan Bitik, dead, officials said. 

 ROME - Marcello Vinci, a 28-year-old teacher from Fasano died under suspicious circumstances on the night between 5 and 6 March in Chengdu, China, where he was working as a teacher.

 ROME/KHARTOUM – The escalating violence in Sudan may put millions more at risk of hunger, the United Nations World Food Programm (WFP) said in a statement on Thursday.