Protest rallies were held in cities across the world on Saturday in solidarity with Iranians protesting over the death of a young woman in police custody last month.
Twenty-two-year-old Mahsa Amini died after being arrested by Iran's so-called (...)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been elected president of the 36th session of the Committee on Fisheries of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which will be held in the third quarter of 2024 in Rome, Italy.
The Ministry of Environment, (...)
Located just outside the ancient Aurelian Walls that surround the historic part of central Rome, the neighborhood of Pigneto is widely considered the most progressive part of the Italian capital.
On Sunday, far-right firebrand Giorgia Meloni and her (...)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been elected president of the 36th session of the Committee on Fisheries of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which will be held in the third quarter of 2024 in Rome, Italy.
The Ministry of Environment, (...)
The far-right Brothers of Italy, led by Giorgia Meloni, won Monday the Italian elections with 26 percent of the votes, followed by the Democratic Party, which won 19 percent and five star movement with 15.4 percent.
The right wing coalition, which (...)
Far-right leader Giorgia Meloni has claimed victory in Italy's election, and is on course to become the country's first female prime minister.
Ms Meloni is widely expected to form Italy's most right-wing government since World War Two.
That will (...)
Italian parties held their final rallies on Friday ahead of a snap general election on Sunday that is expected to be won by the Giorgia Meloni-led right-wing bloc.
A trio of center-left, populist and centrist groups held their closing meetings in (...)
Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has defended Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine, saying Russia's leader was "pushed" into the conflict.
The 85-year-old said Russian troops were meant to replace the government with "decent people" then leave.
The (...)
The Brothers of Italy party, which looks set to win the country's general elections on 25 September, has suspended one of its candidates on Tuesday after he was found to have praised Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler in online posts.
Brothers of Italy (...)
Italy is readying itself for a snap general election on Sunday, Sept. 25. Italy's upcoming set of general elections was originally slated for next spring. So why have politicians been battling this summer's torrid temperatures to campaign for (...)
Migrants have been paying up to €20,000 to be smuggled into Europe on private aircraft, say police.
They were given fake diplomatic passports and put on flights in Turkey that were supposedly heading to the Caribbean.
But the planes stopped over in (...)
National Center for Archives and Records (NCAR) will participate in the annual International Council on Archives Conference, to be held in Rome, Italy, from 19 to 23 September this year. The center's delegation will be headed by its Director (...)
Italy's net energy import costs are set to more than double this year to nearly 100 billion euros ($99.5 billion), the economy minister said, warning Rome could not spend indefinitely to cushion the blow on the economy.
Italy relies on imports for (...)
World food prices have fallen for a fifth consecutive month but are still nearly eight per cent higher than a year ago, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Friday.
Its latest Food Price Index shows that the prices of five (...)
The World Food Program (WFP) is supporting Pakistan as the country takes stock of floods which have reportedly killed more than 1,000 people and displaced some 33 million, the UN agency said on Monday.
Through its National Disaster Management (...)
Pope Francis is creating 20 new cardinals on Saturday, a further step in the preparation of his succession.
The consistory, the eighth of Francis' pontificate since his election in 2013, comes against a backdrop of speculation that the 85-year-old (...)
The robbery of over half a million tonnes of fuel from the World Food Programme (WFP) in Ethiopia's Tigray region will make it impossible to continue operations that support millions of hungry people, the UN agency said on Thursday.
Armed men (...)
Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air, Europe's fastest growing and most sustainable airline, has announced an expansion to its network, entailing as many as 20 new routes from Europe to Saudi Arabia.
By next year, Wizz plans to offer more than one (...)
Wizz Air, Europe's fastest growing and most sustainable airline, is launching 20 exciting new routes with a capacity of one million new seats from Bucharest, Budapest, Catania, Larnaca, Milan, Naples, Rome, Tirana, Varna, Venice and Vienna to (...)
An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.2 was registered on the Italian island of Sicily on Sunday morning, the dpa reported.
The quake's epicentre was at a depth of some 4 kilometres and located some 80 kilometres south of the island's capital, (...)
Weeks of baking drought across Europe have seen water levels in rivers and lakes fall to levels few can remember, exposing long-submerged treasures - and some unwanted hazards, Reuters reported.
In Spain, suffering its worst drought in decades, (...)
Powerful storms have battered areas of central and southern Europe, killing at least 12 people including three children.
The deaths, most from falling trees, were reported in Italy and Austria, and on the French island of Corsica.
Heavy rain and (...)
Following widespread rains in Yemen, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) remains on high alert as the threat of desert locust emergence looms, the UN agency said on Wednesday.
To avert losses triggered by the voracious pest, FAO recently (...)
The first vessel transporting Ukrainian wheat grain to support humanitarian operations run by the World Food Programme (WFP) has left the port of Yuzhny, also known as Pivdennyi, the UN agency reported on Tuesday.
The MV Brave Commander departed (...)
Italy's worst drought in decades has reduced Lake Garda, the country's largest lake, to near its lowest level ever recorded, exposing swaths of previously underwater rocks and warming the water to temperatures that approach the average in the (...)
