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Canada offers helping hand to Italy's lost youth
ROME – Italy’s lost youth trapped by the peninsula’s depressed labour market are being given a unique chance to broaden their horizons and find temporary employment in Canada.
From freedom fighter to healer
Bittersweet Rome farewell for Israeli Ambassador Meir
Personal Finance: Market optimism despite depression threat
Consul in Japan accused of exalting fascism at rock concert
Famine caused by delayed response
New WFP Chief announced
By ALYX BARKER
ROME – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has named Ertharin Cousin as the next Executive Director of the Rome-based food agency.
Ratings and the Lexicographer's Quandary
French colonel killed in Libya
Lords differ on expats’ voting rights
Institute for Human Dignity praises Romanian Charity
Italy backs EU sanctions against Iran
IFAD states pledge dlrs 1.5 billion for food security
Labour Lord says “no chance” for expats’ votes
By ALYX BARKER
ROME -- Labour peer Lord Lipsey said in a BBC Radio 4 debate just after Christmas that there was “no chance whatsoever” of British expats’ voting rights being expanded.
Bahraini opposition HQ tear-gassed, militarization and sectarianism brewing
ROME -- On Friday government forces attacked the headquarters of Bahrain’s main opposition party Al Wefaq, injuring its deputy secretary general and other senior members.
Pope lashes out at commercialisation of Christmas
New FAO DG “currying favour” with corporations
1 million expats await ECHR decision
By ALYX BARKER
ROME -- Harry Shindler’s hearing in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has been concluded, and the verdict is awaited.
Obituary: Charles Ridley, UP man who scooped papal attack
ROME – Captain Charles Ridley, a soldier and top foreign correspondent for UPI, climaxed an extraordinary career with a worldwide scoop by breaking the news of the 1981 assassination attempt on Po
Italy and Libya friends again
Expats’ voting rights battle enters long haul
Video raises hope of end to hostage drama
South Sudan faces “storm of hunger”
Kenya charity expands with help of former U.N. Ambassador
By ALYX BARKER
ROME-- Care for Kenya is launching a new women's centre with the close support of former Kenyan Ambassador to the United Nations Bob Jalang'o.