ROME – As many as 730 kg of cocaine have been seized from traffickers in Trieste, police said.

ROME – Higher than average temperatures and increased rain is predicted for November and December in Italy, seasonal forecast reports on Thursday. 

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis will travel to Bharain next week to attend the general asian bishops. conference, the Vatican said Thursday.

 PALERMO – More than 400 migrants are stuck aboard the rescue ships Humanity 1 and Ocean Viking in the Mediterranean Sea while the vessels wait for access to a safe port, charities reported.

ROME – A group of young adults have been arrested in Bari due to their affiliation with an international extremist group, police said.

 ROME – Newly inaugurated Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni held a phone call with United States President Joe Biden, discussing the challenges faced by both nations and reaffirming their suppo

ROME – A mother of a nine-year-old child was killed with a hammer in Bolzano in a gender related homicide, police said.

ROME – Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni will have another confidence vote in the senate on Wednesday.

ROME – Pope Franics speaks on a possibility for peace in Ukraine while an announcement is made that Ukrainian military forces have received surface-to-air missile systems from the United States.

VATICAN CITY – On Monday, Pope Francis and president of the Republic of Cyprus met to cordially discuss the divided state of Cyprus. The Cypriot President, Mr.

 ROME – Newly instated Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni held an informal meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday in an effort to improve Italian-French relations.

 ROME – A local Veneto prison recently refused help from outside sources to help a severely ill prisoner, worldwide INGO reported.

 ROME – The putative Italian centre-right coalition was evidently unravelling even as Italian President Sergio Mattarella began official consultations to decide to who he will give a mandate to for

ROME- Italian union workers’ strike severely cripples the transport sector this week, cancelling plans for thousands of travellers.

ROME – Media mogul and Forza Italia leader Silvio Berlusconi destabilised the putative Italian government coalition by boasting of ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin who sent him "20 bottle

 DONETSK – A 28 year-old Italian man was killed in combat in the region of Donetsk on Sunday, while working as a foreign fighter for the Russian military.  The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs c

 ROME - A new immersive contemporary art exhibit has opened in the Piazza Navona, showcasing 54 works of 28 Mexican-American artists.

 According to the Polish envoy, Pro-Russian tendencies of partners will not sway FDI leader Giorgia Meloni

  ROME – Iran has responded to requests by Italy for the release of an arrest Italian travel blogger, Alessia Piperno, who apparently was caught up inadvertently

 ROME -- The World Food Programme has denied that there was a conflict of interest in the Boston Consulting Group's pro bono partnership with the UN agency involv

 SÃO PAULO - The Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), the world’s largest multinational naval partnership, will continue to navigate international waters close to Somalia regardless of the shipping indu

 BERLIN – The non-governmental search and rescue organisation SOS Humanity criticises the state authorities responsible for sea emergencies in the Mediterranean in its rescue report published today

 FERRARA – A number of Erasmus scholarship students from Spain, who started an international exchange at university in the prosperous Emilian city of Ferrara, are being forced to live on the street