ROME – Local staff at the Catholic Relief Services in Sudan are increasingly concerned about being obliged to undertake birdwatching excursions into dangerous war zones with the Vatican-linked char

 ROME — FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva has dismissed the top two German executives at the UN agency in evident retaliation for criticism of his autocratic style of management levelled

ROME — French former head of the European Food Security Agency (EFSA) Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle will run as a candidate to be the next Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization

ROME – Amid scores of concerned British citizens following the UK’s planned break from the EU, Ambassador to Italy Jill Morris made assurances that a smooth transition was "top of the agenda" whils

VATICAN CITY - The managing director of the Sistine Chapel Choir, the oldest Church choir in the world, reportedly has been suspended following an internal Holy See investigation into alleged finan

Dear valued reader, The Italian insider Chief Editor John Phillips will appear in the Rome Tribunal on June 14 (cq) on

The following are thumbnail profiles of key ministers in the government being sworn in Friday:

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The following is a list of the ministers in Italian Prime Minister’s cabinet:

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ROME – The Five Star Movement fought hard on Wednesday to retrace the steps of their collapsed coalition, and are now willing to form an alliance without the controversial Paolo Savona as economy m

ROME - Mr David Tongue, a master with wide international experience ranging from Thailand to the Falklands, has been announced as the new Principal of St George’s British International School in Ro

ROME — FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, is evidently in a rush to fill vacant posts, fearing negative repercussions from country members of the UN agency which have been raising questio

 ROME –  Programme and Finance Committee Meetings of the FAO being held this this week were expected to hear 'flimsy excuses' from Director General José Graziano da Silva seeking to justify delayin

ROME – As the end of FAO Director General Josè Graziano da Silva’s turbulent term off office approaches, foreign diplomats are asking whether the Brazilian agronomist will, like his predecessors, d

 ROME – The Kuwaiti Ambassador to Italy, Sheikh Ali Khaled Al Jaber Al Sabah, has bilked the Italian Insider out of 10,000 euros owed for work the diplomat

ROME – The FAO in its latest curb on press freedom has banned a reporter from attending a Year of Zayed event to which Italian Insider was invited by the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates, disreg

ROME – Chilean honcho Samuel Varas is expected to become Assistant Director General for Corporate Services at the Food And Agriculture Organisation as Brazilian Director General José Graziano da Si

 ROME -- The World Food Programme said Wednesday it cannot confirm or deny reports by UN sources that a second WFP country director has been suspended following an investigation. 

 ROME -- A second senior WFP executive and country director of the UN agency has been suspended from duty following a sexual harassment investigation, UN sources said Wednesday.

ROME –  Wily IFAD president Gilbert Houngbo has given give hungercrat Marco Marzano de Marinis a lucrative “consolation prize” as a “Senior advisor” after bouncing the well-connected Italian out of

ROME – The relatives of three men from Naples who were allegedly sold by Mexican police officers to a drug cartel have offered a reward of two million pesos for “news” as to the whereabouts of thei

ROME – The Italian Foreign Ministry firmly rebutted Israel’s suggestion that African migrants would be relocated to the country on Tuesday, after the latter’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, an

TURIN – France’s minister in charge of overseas customs was forced to deny that Italy’s sovereignty had been violated on Tuesday and called a meeting to address the issue, after a row over customs’

 ROME – Rival would-be candidates from India to head the U.N.

ROME – The Association of the Foreign Press in Rome has elected its first female president for two decades in a move that is being hailed as an important and innovative step forward.