Turkey, US officials resume talks after Erdogan Armenian debacle
ANKARA - Turkey's determination to start a fresh dialogue with Washington was revealed at diplomatic talks between U.S.
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ANKARA - Turkey's determination to start a fresh dialogue with Washington was revealed at diplomatic talks between U.S.
ROME -- Western diplomats accredited to the FAO have been mulling the relevance to the UN poverty-busting agency of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedne
ALGIERS - The clampdown and arrests of demonstrators and civil society activists taking part in the Hirak, Algeria's pro-democracy movement, are on the rise again in the weeks before the 12 June
BUCHAREST -- We are in a period of relative peace and a ceasefire armistice, fighting and destruction in the Middle East as agreed by Israel and the Palestinian
ROME -- Jaded FAO staff struggling to work from home without human contact with their colleagues were not overly impressed by a town hall meeting presided over b
ROME -- EU countries are divided and evidently increasingly at odds with the EU Commission in Brussels over extra-budget financing for FAO activities including relief of emergencies, diplomatic so
ROME – Dominic Republic Ambassador Mario Arvelo Caamano is the favourite in the race with two EU candidates (Netherlands and Hungary) for the influential post of
ROME - The British Ambassador to Italy, Jill Morris, has pledged that “there will be no more cases of this kind,” in r
CUETA - According to many analysts, the sudden influx of about 8,000 migrants in the past 48 hours in the small Spanish enclave of Ceuta, was a message from Mor
TBILISI – Georgia is celebrating the 700th anniversary of the birth of Dante Alighieri with a constellation
ROME - In light of the numerous reported cases of Italian and European citizens being detained and deported by the UK’s border force, Benedetto Della Vedova, Undersecretary of State for Foreign A
ROME - With the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over, there is a need to transform the “after” into an opportunity.
ALGIERS – An FAO Representative has left his post in a north African capital after the UN agency executive was found by local police wearing women’s clothing dur
KHARTOUM – A fun-loving FAO representative in one of the largest countries in Africa has as many as three wives but surprised staff by embarking on a further rom
ABU DHABI - Italians diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates are at an all time low, with several defence contracts being directed to other countries and former Prime Minister Giuseppe
ROME - Almost a month after Italy expelled two Russian officials working in the Rome embassy, Russia has finally responding, kicking out a Defence Attaché from the Italian embassy in Moscow.
ROME - The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, is visiting the United Arab Emirates on 25-27 April 2021.
ROME - The embassies of Denmark, Norway and Sweden in Italy kick off the "Be smart be equal" project, a cycle of events in 2021 focused on equal opportunities a
BENGHAZI - "The reopening of the Italian Consulate in Benghazi is imminent," announced Italian Minister for Foreign Affairs Luigi Di Maio after a meeting at the Farnesina with Najla El Mangoush,
ROME – A UN security officer working for FAO has defended his Italian boss against charges of cronyism and issued a thinly-veiled death threat against Italian Insider, saying on Twitter that an ar
ROME – Western diplomats are outraged that FAO DG Qu Dongyu has turned the UN agency, as foreign envoys see it, into a small-scale “Wuhan on the Tiber” using Covid to continue to prohibit diplomat
ROME -- The widow of Senator John McCain, from Arizona, is under consideration for appointment by the Biden administration as US Ambassador to the FAO and WFP, d
ROME - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has fired back at Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, who in a press conference last week ca