VATICAN CITY – The Holy See may consider introducing a general lockdown after a prelate living in the Santa Marta guesthouse where Pope Francis resides was hospitalized with Coronavirus as the pon
ROME — An employee of the FAO tested positive earlier this month with Coronavirus and was hospitalized, Director General Qu Dongyu disclosed Tuesday.
ROME – FAO’s new chief of cabinet has cracked the whip on the UN agencies’ assistant director generals, apprising each of them of their duties under an ‘overseer’ deputy director general in an appa
ROME – A satirical video clip, broadcast by the French TV station ‘Canal +’ and circulated online during Tuesday morning, has caused Italian politicians to defend their food products and call for a
ROME – The British ambassador to Italy, Her Excellency Jill Morris, has spoken out about antisemitism on an all-woman panel set up to explore the sociological and cultural factors that cause intole
ROME - The Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government H.E.
ROME -- Uruguayan executive Mario Lubetkin was terminated as FAO chef de cabinet Friday by the Chinese director general of the UN agency, Qu Dongyu, and replaced by Godfrey Magwenzi, a Zimbabwean
ROME – The appointment of convicted Russian moneylaunderer Vladimir Kusnetsov to the FAO finance committee was opposed in vain by the United States and FAO’s new Chinese Qu Dongyu has turned a bli
ROME -- Investigators probing a former head of the human resources department at the FAO on charges of allegedly demanding cash in return for jobs as well
ROME – On Friday Chinese government officials voiced their displeasure at the suspension of flights to and from China, with the closure of flights between the Italy and China having been signed off
CAIRO – Patrick Zaky, 27, an exchange student studying gender and human rights at the University of Bologna, was arrested Friday at Cairo airport and has been beaten and given electric shocks, acco
LONDON – Italian Prime Minster Giuseppe Conte met with UK Prime Minster Boris Johnson on Tuesday at the launch of the UN Climate summit COP26, to discuss diplomatic relations between the two countr
TRIPOLI – Turkey has claimed that its warship, the frigate ‘Gaziantep', saved 30 migrants from drowning on Wednesday, but new information seems to suggest that the ‘Gaziantep’ was actually ferrying
ROME – Iraq’s security forces have killed more than 600 protesters and wounded over 10,000 more, which raised questions concerning the likelihood of a Sunnistan or Shiitestan breakaway at ‘The Iraq
ROME – An Italian preliminary judge has scheduled a new court hearing for March 26 in the second criminal libel case brought by the FAO director general against
BOLOGNA – League leader Matteo Salvini has sparked a diplomatic firestorm after questioning Tunisian immigrants over the intercom at their home.
Rome — Fierce competition has erupted in legal circles in the Eternal City to replace the veteran FAO Portuguese legal counsel, Antonio Tavares, who is retiring as the head of the UN agency’s legal
ROME – The British Embassy launched Wednesday “UK in… tour,” a diplomacy initiative that will see Ambassador Jill Morris promote links between Britain and Italy through visits to a number of Itali
ROME – A bizarre and partly rigged scheme by FAO Director General Qu Dongyu for staff to elect the 100 Best Employees at the UN agency and the Best Young 100 employees has left most hungercrats baf
VATICAN CITY – In what Holy See commentators are describing as a surprising move, retired pope Benedict XVI has made a statement in defence of priestly celibacy in response to a proposal to allow m
MACERATA - The children of the ancient Andriatic town, thanks to the solidarity of Qatar, received Saturday a modern school complex to replace the one damaged by the earthquakes that hit Central It
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