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Chiara Griffini, the first lay woman to hold a management role within the Italian Bishops' Conference's pastoral offices, has launched a pilot study of alleged abuse by clergy against minors in Italy in recent decades.
Bolstering water resources, environmental and higher education collaboration with "strategic" Central Asian countries is the main aim of a meeting in Rome on Wednesday attended by over 30 major firms and trade associations as well as foreign minister Antonio Tajani and counterparts from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Italy has tweeted "concern" at Venezuela's withdrawal of an invitation to the European Union to monitor the presidential election in July, in which leftist Nicolas Maduro will seek a third term, with his main rival, Marina Machado, disqualified from running.
"Excellent" bilateral relations and new areas for collaboration and investment were the focus of phone talks between Italy's premier Giorgia Meloni and United Arab Emirates president Mohamed bin Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan.
Israel has received "very clear messages of condemnation" from Italy for the overnight airstrike on a tent camp in the southern Gaza town of Rafah that killed dozens of displaced Palestinians in a designated safe zone, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Monday.
The long-awaited opening of Italy's new Italian Consulate General in Brussels, which is being inaugurated by foreign minister Antonio Tajani on Tuesday, "continues to strengthen the presence of its embassies and consulates around the world," Tajani said in a statement.
Following Moscow's takeover of heating firm Ariston and German household appliances firm Bosch's local units last month, the European Union has to protect Italian and European companies operating in Russia, according to Italy.
The government vows to help de-escalate the Middle East conflict and to get humanitarian aid to war-ravaged Gaza, both of which are necessary to achieve a 'just and lasting peace' in the region, foreign minister Antonio Tajani tweeted on Monday.
Pristina "must respect the commitments it has made with Europe", especially on the minority ethnic Serbs in Kosovo's troubled north, Italy's foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Friday.
Telecom Italia's submarine cable unit Sparkle has announced the laying of the BlueMed submarine cable to Crete, offering the Greek island high-speed Internet connections, Italy's foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday.
Italy's government tracks the cases of all citizens detained in other countries and has been instrumental in helping obtain their release from jail, according to foreign minister Antonio Tajani.
Despite Russia's recent territorial gains in northeast and eastern Ukraine, it is "not yet" winning the war and must be stopped from doing so by continuing to help Kiev, according to Italy's foreign minister Antonio Tajani.
The lower house of parliament's Indo-Pacific foreign policy panel is set on Wednesday to question representatives of the pro-democracy Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong, the parliament said in a statement.
Italy "strongly" rejects human rights violations and the oppression of women in Iran, foreign minister Antonio Tajani said in an interview on Tuesday - the day after he other top Italian officials sent condolences on the death of the country's hardline president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash.
The arrest warrants sought on Monday by the International Criminal Court prosecutors for Israel's premier Benjamin Netanyahu and defence minister Yoav Gallant alongside Hamas' leaders are "unacceptable", "absurd" and could fuel anti-Semitism, according to Italy.
UN Food and Agriculture Organization chief Qu Dongyu has welcomed the decision to award the King Hassan II of Morocco Great World Water Prize to the organization at the 10th World Water Forum, held in Bali.
Italy hopes that the new president Iran is set to elect within 50 days after the death of Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on Sunday will seek to forge stability, peace and dialogue in the Middle East.
Italy has voiced regret to Iran over the deaths of its president Ebrahim Raisi and foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in a helicopter crash at weekend, calling the incident "a tragic accident".
Young people's ideas are crucial to tackling the major global challenges, foreign minister Antonio Tajani will tell a summit opening in Rome on Monday being attended by some 130 delegates aged 20-35 who will hammer out proposals for Italy's G7 presidency
Italy has given the University of Tripoli's library 600 books to foster knowledge of Italian and "friendship and mutual knowledge" with Libya, the embassy tweeted on Thursday.
