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WFP wins prize for efforts to combat hunger.
The Rome-based United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has been awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to combat hunger.
WFP has acted "as a driving force in...
Italians had been abducted by Islamist extremists in Mali.
Italy's premier Giuseppe Conte has welcomed the release of two Italians who had been held hostage by Al Qaida-linked Islamist extremists in Mali.
Father Pier...
Pausini to sing from Colosseum in support of I Love Beirut project.
Italian singer Laura Pausini is to perform in the Colosseum as part of the I Love Beirut project organised by the Lebanese singer Mika to support peopl...
Pontifical Academy for Life causes debate with "Black Pietà" tweet.An image of Michelangelo's Pietà depicting Jesus as black, tweeted by the Vatican's Pontifical Academy for Life, has caused much debate in Italy and else...
Baby born in mid-air between Lampedusa and Palermo.
A migrant woman who tested positive for covid-19 gave birth to a baby on board a helicopter as she was flying to Sicily from the tiny southern Italian island of Lamped...
UK street artist funds search and rescue boat to help save migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
Banksy, the anonymous British street artist, has financed a boat to rescue refugees attempting to reach Europe from north A...
Italian senate revokes Salvini's immunity from trial over migrant detention in Open Arms case.
Italy's senate has voted to allow the prosecution of former interior minister Matteo Salvini for blocking a migrant ship off...
Rome UN building will be illuminated with colours of Italian tricolour until end of Covid-19 emergency.
The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is illuminating its Rome headquarters with the green, w...
Holocaust victims remembered in Rome 75 years after liberation of Auschwitz.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January 2020 is being marked in Rome with more than 170 memorial events, organised by the city,...
Rome installs 34 new stolpersteine memorials.
Rome will install 34 new brass cobblestone memorials to victims of the Holocaust at various locations throughout the capital, from the historic centre to the suburbs, on 13...
Artist writes names on Rome street of those who died trying to reach Europe.
Italian artist Fabio Saccomani has undertaken a project to transcribe the names of almost 37,000 migrants and refugees, who died on their way...
Babingtons raises funds for young people in Darjeeling.
Babingtons, the historic English tea room at the foot of Rome's Spanish Steps, will hold a charity auction on 7 October to raise funds for its project Babingtons f...
Street pharmacy opens in Trastevere area of Rome.
A farmacia di strada, or street pharmacy, has opened at Vo.Re.Co., a charitable organisation which helps former prisoners and homeless people, on Via della Lungara in th...
Salvini blasts "illegal" actions of the Vatican's papal almoner.
Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, the pope's apostolic almsgiver, took matters into his own hands by personally reconnecting the electricity to an illegally-occu...
Tailors from west Africa and cooks from Syria build new lives in Rome through dignified employment in fashion and food.
There was goodness in the air as visitors thronged the Christmas market at St Paul's Within-the-Wal...
19 United Nations personnel among 157 killed in Ethiopian Airlines crash.
Flags are flying at half mast at the Rome World Food Program (WFP) and the Food and Argiculture Organization (FAO) as the United Nations (UN) age...
Holocaust victims remembered in Rome 74 years after Auschwitz liberation.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January 2019 is being marked in Rome with dozens of memorial events until 1 February.
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Man is believed to be tenth homeless person to die from hypothermia in city this winter.
A man who was found dead in Rome's Flaminio district on 23 January is believed to be the 10th homeless person to die from the cold...
Church leaders and politicians express concern for future of asylum seekers following surprise closure of major reception centre outside Rome.
The CARA reception centre for asylum seekers at Castelnuovo di Porto north...
Charity says evictions leading to illness and creation of shantytowns in Rome.
Rome's continuing policy of evicting people from illegally-occupied buildings, without offering them alternative accommodation, is creating...
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