ROME- The other day, the glamorous Maltese Ambassador to Italy Vanessa Frazier was criticised online by commentators because of her choice of handbag.

 ROME- The new French ambassador arrived Wednesday in the Italian capital.

ROME- The British Embassy spokesperson Pierluigi Puglia has spoken out against an article from the Italian newspaper, Il Foglio, suggesting that “Brexit can only be hard for the UK”.

ROME – Peruvian former cab driver Fernando Servan’s appointment as top Human Resources honcho at the FAO has made the UN agency seem like a Latin American junta more than ever with senior executive

 ROME -- The parents of Cambridge student Giulio Regeni, widely suspected to have been murdered by Egyptian security forces, said they are outraged after Italy, citing 'developments' in cooperation

 ROME – The FAO introduced draconian new employment terms for consultants this week, stating that consultancies won’t be renewed if less than six months in duratio

ROME – The United States has told the Food and Agriculture Organisation it will slash its funding of the UN agency by some 20 percent, or some dlrs 32 million, FAO sources say.

ROME — A senior Food and Agriculture Organization human resources executive regularly offers young women positions at the UN agency in return for sexual favours and at one point began groping a can

ROME — The arrest of Nadine Heredia on corruption charges has underlined the imprudence of FAO supremo José Graziano da Silva’s decision to hire the former Peruvian firs

ROME — Despite the summer heat the FAO’s Latin American clique continues to consolidate its grip on top jobs at the UN agency.

VATICAN CITY- The monsignor who was arrested by the Vatican Gendarmerie following a raid on an apartment in the Palazzo dell’ex Sant’Uffizio, in which a soirée fuelled by drugs and homosexual activ

BRENNER - Austria deployed Tuesday four armoured APC vehicles on the Brenner border between Italy and Austria to underline its opposition to Italian authorities allowing migrants to entering Austri

ROME- Spanish archbishop, Luis Ladaria SJ, who was recently appointed by Pope Francis to be the next Head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), was involved in a cover-up operati

 ROME –  As the FAO 40th annual Conference opened Monday, FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva is believed to be bolstering support from member countries b

 VATICAN CITY - A spending splurge by Cardinal George Pell, the head of the Vatican's finances, contributed to his losing the confidence of Pope Francis as he was charged in Australia for alleged i

 VATICAN CITY -- Cardinal George Pell said Thursday he is temporarily stepping down from his role as Vatican financial chief following the Australian police’s decision to charge him with multiple c

ROME --  Professional staff at the Food and Agriculture Organisation are considering protesting at the upcoming FAO Conference to dramatise a “systematic erosion of conditions of service” and a “ne