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 ROME - Luca Cecca, 34 year-old waiter in a Roman restaurant, has been listed as "Missing in action”, having been in Ukraine since August 2024.

 SIRACUSA, Sicily – Sunday afternoon, at 15:03 local time, the MV Ocean Viking, search and rescue vessel chartered by SOS MEDITERRANEE in partnership with the IFRC, was deliberately targeted in a s

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 ROME - Italy is offering to send troops to Ukraine for demining operations, Palazzo Chigi, the prime minister's office, has been quoted as saying, in what may be a departure from Italy's staunch o

 TRAPANI, Sicily - The Ocean Viking, the humanitarian ship of the NGO SOS Méditerranée, rescued a rubber boat in international waters north of Libya, Saturday night, writes Il Fatto Quotidiano.

 ROME/GENEVA/NEW YORK – More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths, according to a new Integ

 RIMINI - A man of Ukrainian origin has been arrested in Italy on charges of involvment in the underwater explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines between Russia and Germany in 2022 as

 ROME - After the authorship of the mutual aid proposal for Kiev in the wake of Article 5 of the Atlantic Treaty was registered in the living room of the White House, Giorgia Meloni definitively co

 LAMPEDUSA - In a rather bizarre case, three Palestinians attempted to undertake a risky journey across the Mediterranean on a jet ski, reports Bernt Koschuh.

  ROME -- Italian consultants at the World Food Programme who have been at the UN agency for as long as 10, 15 or 20 years and promised a post but never given one, are being chopped by not having t

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 CHENGDU, China - Mattia Debertolis, an Italian athlete who had been hospitalised in Chengdu, China, after falling ill during the opening race of the World Games, has died at the age of 29.

GENOA - Protesters blocked the gates of the port of Genoa after discovering the presence of numerous American military vehicles and explosives going to Israel on board the ship Bahri Yanbu, on Frid

 ROME – Speaking in an interview with La Stampa, later reported by Il Fatto Quotidiano, Defence Minister Guido Crosetto said “I think that the occupation of Gaza and certain serious acts in the Wes

 ROME —The Foreign Ministers of the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Italy, and New Zealand have issued a joint statement strongly condemning Israel’s decision to launch a new large scale milita

 ROME - In an interview with Il Messaggero, Ettore Sequi, former secretary general of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and former ambassador to China, is convinced that “the sanctions

 ROME - Daniel O'Connell, who was born in 1775 in County Kerry and died in Genoa in May 1847, is Ireland's most celebrated hero, a father of the nation to whom monuments, streets and ongoing celebr

 ROME – The Eternal City and The Pearl by the Sea have signed, hand in hand, a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the field of cultural heritage, under which the Capitoline Superintende

 ROME - While the war continues unabated after three and a half years, the summer reception programme ‘È più bello insieme’ (It's better together) will continue in the summer of 2025.

MOSCOW - Steve Witkoff arrived at the Kremlin to meet Vladimir Putin on his fifth visit to Russia this year, reports Il Fatto Quotidiano.

 ROME - Paraphrasing the famous British anthem “God Save the King,” this time Roman restaurateurs are shouting “God Save Cacio e Pepe”.

ROME – The World Food Programme announces that the population in El Fasher faces starvation and humanitarian needs continue to escalate as access to the besieged city has been cut off despite WFP’s

 ROME - There are now 13 victims in Italy in 2025 of West Nile, the virus transmitted by infected mosquito bites.