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ROME-- Holding elections in Mali in July "is going to be difficult", given the large number of displaced people and the adverse climate conditions, but "we have to organize what has become a fragmented society", UN special envoy for the Sahel,  Romano Prodi, told Foreign Affairs Committee MEPs on Monday 8th.

ROME -- Italian Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi resigned Tuesday, saying he opposed bowing to India over the trial of two Italian marines accused of shooting Indian fishermen.

ROME-- Pope Francis spoke this morning to 180 diplomats and ambassadors to the Holy See to tell them how he hopes to 'build bridges' during his pontificate.

VATICAN CITY - Catholic cardinals today chose Argentine Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio as leader of the Church, taking the name Pope Francis.

 ROME – Chilean Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz and Italian Cardinal Domenico Calcagno should be excluded from the conclave for covering up for paedophile priests, abuse victims say.

 The Roman Catholic Church has been in the business of communications for 2,000 years, but can still find a way to surprise.

ROME - In the borough of Haringey in North London a building called the Chocolate Factory is home to over 220 artists and providing work for some 500 peopl

 VATICAN CITY– Catholic Cardinals sent a white smoke signal this evening from the Sistine Chapel after they were able to elect a new pope.

ROME - Both military and political efforts are vital if Mali’s partners are to help the country emerge from its ongoing crisis, the United Nations political chief has stressed.

HELSINKI- Key stakeholders of the aviation industry met to discuss the way forward for the Single European Sky project at the Public Hearing organised by the European Economic and Social Committee.

ROME - Today Barack Obama is sworn in for his second term, a visibly older and, I would guess, politically wiser man than four years ago.

ROME - There is much talk of corruption in Italy and for the last year and more, we have been bombarded with accounts of kickbacks, bribes and embezzlement by civil servants and above all, elected

EU consumers have once again expressed their dissatisfaction with the performance of some key services markets, according to the Commission’s 2012 Consumer Markets Scoreboard.