ROME – Police in Turin were investigating Friday, how a tourist bus reversed into the river Po, hitting three women and killing the driver, shortly before it was due to pick up a group of school children, police said.
ROME – Nicaragua, under the regime led by Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo, has withdrawn from the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and ordered its staff to leave in a spat over hunger statistics in the poverty-stricken country, diplomatic sources say.
ROME – Former mayor of Capaccio Paestum, Franco Alfieri and the former head secretary to the governor of Campania, were amongst the 10 arrested Thursday morning in Salerno during the latest anti-mafia (DIA) spate of arrests.
ROME – According to new IPC data, a combination of conflict and rising food prices has driven the Congolese into one of the world’s worst food crises with an additional 2.5 million people being pushed into acute food insecurity.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced Thursday that new data from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis revealed the highest number ever recorded of acutely food insecure populations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Last spring, over coffee near Piazza Navona, I met a diplomat’s family fresh from Brussels.