GENOA – Rubens’ painting was confiscated due to illegal exportation and money laundering concerns. 

 ROME – Disregarding Western criticism of his pro-Moscow stance, the FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has inaugurated a “Russian room,” funded by the Russian phosph

 ROME – The Ndrangheta mafia affiliated group is being hunted down and arrested in both Calabria and New York, police reported on Tuesday.

 ROME – A boat transporting 50 migrants onboard sank ten miles south of Lampedusa, with 43 people currently rescued, and one two-year-old girl found dead, emergency services reported.

ROME -- Antonio Panzeri, former MEP for the Democrats of the Left and president of the ONG “Fight Impute” was arrested last Friday, by Belgian Federal Attorney, together with Niccolò Figà

 LIVORNO - “The ammunition used in Iran to shoot down protesters are Italian” is the motive for the protest on Thursday, in front of the factory that produces them in the Tuscan region, organisers

ROME – Activists gather in front of the UK Embassy on Human Rights Day, to protest the extradition of Julian Assange to the US.

 Milan– A doctor, 76-year-old Giorgio Falcetto was attacked and killed with a hatchet just outside of a clinic, police reported Thursday.

 ROME- Italy’s centre right government is sending back to Slovenia hundreds of asylum seekers and migrants trying to enter the country in freezing temperatures al

 ATHENS - A car bomb targeting Susanna Schlein, advisor to the Italian embassy to Greece and sister of Elly Schlein, candidate for PD secretary, was claimed by the Greek anarchist group “Carlo Giul

 ROME – As David Beasley’s tenure as head of WFP draws to a close, diplomats reflect that while the former Republican governor has been a good fundraiser, helping

 ROME – Sweden’s exports to Saudi Arabia are likely to climb further on the back of Riyadh’s increased oil revenue, Economist and Senior Fellow at the Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) Keith Boyf

 NAPLES – The United States aircraft carrier George H.W.

ROME – Gaetano Alaimo, a well-respected cardiologist in the city of Favara in the Agrigento region was shot and killed by a patient he had been treating for years, police reported Tuesday.

 HELSINKI - The Finnish Government decided on November 17 that Finland will take ten asylum seekers rescued by the rescue vessel Ocean Viking that docked in France.

 ROME – Italian football fans were said to be supporting Argentina at the Qatar World Cup, in the painful absence of the Azzurri, who were knocked out during the qualifying stages by Macedonia.

ROME – Violence against women is on the rise this year in Italy, with 95 women killed between January and November of 2022, half of which were murdered by their partners, police said.

 ROME – In an interview given to La Stampa on Friday morning, Pope Francis reiterated the importance of resolving the conflict in Ukraine and confirmed that the Vatican was willing to act as a medi

 ROME - Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni came back on Wednesday night from the G20 summit in Bali, and aside from the energy agreements with US President Joe Biden, stabilizing the relations w

 ROME – Prosecutors have requested the indictment of two World Food Programme employees accused of manslaughter for their alleged role in the death of the Italian Ambassador and his Carabiniere gua

 ROME – Tensions continued to rise between Italy and France over the migrant crisis, with Italian President Sergio Mattarella intervening in an attempt to defuse the situation.

ROME – Bahrain’s parliamentary and municipal elections were met with enthusiasm despite human rights campaigns against the country’s ban on opposition candidates and crackdown on dissent.

 ROME – The prison at Santa Maria Capua Vetere, north of Naples, is denying their prisoners clean water, heating,

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis held an audience with His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan at the Vatican Palace to maintain warm relations and to discuss peace and stability in the middle East, the

 CATANIA – All remaining migrants held on the humanitarian ships Humanity 1 and Geo Barents disembarked onto Sicilian soil on Tuesday after a long standoff between Italian authorities and organisat