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IFAD staff incandescent over job 'reassignments'
Di Maio in Libya to counter mounting threats to unity
TRIPOLI – To protect Italy’s interests and work to ensure the Libyan conflict doesn't escalate as the competing powers of Turkey, Egypt, and Russia all vie for control, the Italian Foreign Minister
IFAD defends decision to recall staffers to Italy
ROME -- The International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD has defended a decision by President Gilbert Houngbo to recall to the Eternal City employees who
Venezuela denies backdoor financing of Five Star founder
ROME – The Venezuelan President, Nicolás Maduro, has become embroiled in a brewing Italian corruption scandal, with allegations that he sent 3.5 million euros to finance the Italian political party
Cairo-Rome military naval contract under assessment
ROME – The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Luigi Di Maio, has said that assessments are being made on the agreed sale of two frigates, the ‘Spartaco Schergat’ and the ‘Emilio Bianchi’, to be s
Heated summer in store as Greece lists 'high risk' Italians
ATHENS – Italian tourists arriving in Greece from the Italian regions of Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto, will be subject to swabs and a quarantine of a minimum of seven days, according
Exclusive:United States dlrs 46 mln FAO debt fuels concern
ROME – The United States remains “fully engaged” in the UN Food and Agriculture Organization as the largest single contributor despite owing the UN agency as much as dlrs 46 million in arrears, a s
China ambassador to Italy talks 'Kung-fu panda' diplomacy
ROME – The China ambassador to Italy, Li Junhua, has said that China respects the US-Italy alliance, and that it should not be an obstacle to the Italy China partnership, and further said that Chin
FAO shake-up of ADGs rocks UN agency
ROME -- A surprise decision by the FAO Director General, Qu Dongyu, to reallocate radically six assistant directors' job descriptions and move the once powerful
UK and Italy remember Nightingale and honour nurses
ROME – In a ceremony to commemorate Florence Nightingale, the 'mother of modern nursing' who emphasised data and hygiene in field hospitals, projections illuminated the facade of the Spallanzani ho
FAO loses court battle with union over illegal job curbs
Kidnapped aid worker Silvia Romano released
MOGADISHU — Kidnapped Italian aid worker Silvia Romano, 25, has been released, officials said Saturday.
Obituary: Giuseppe Zaccaria, foreign correspondent who obtained Slobodan Milosevic’s last interview
Beppe Zaccaria, who has died at age 69, was a star foreign correspondent for la Stampa newspaper covering the Balkans and the Middle East with distinction throu
Pope in Easter message warns EU faces "epochal challenge"
FAO conferences 'on hold' amid Covid impact uncertainty
Italian press embroiled in Russian row over medical aid
ROME – Between Jan 22 and April 1 more than 150 cases of pro-Kremlin disinformation about COVID-19 were recorded in the 'EUvsDisinfo' database, with this 'infodemic' during the epidemic sparking a
Obituary: Marek Lehnert, Polish radio correspondent who chronicled Pope John Paul II
British Embassy in Italy whisks tourists out of cruise debacle
ROME - Lazio regional authorities complained that they hadn't been informed by the Italian Civil Protection Agency about the transfer of 229 tourists to Rome from the Costa Luminosa cruise ship, an
FAO mourns employee dead from Coronavirus
ROME - An FAO employee from the UN agency's headquarters staff who was infected with Covid 19 has died of the virus, FAO sources said.
First Corona case in Pope Francis' residence
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
Exclusive: First Coronavirus case at FAO
ROME — An employee of the FAO tested positive earlier this month with Coronavirus and was hospitalized, Director General Qu Dongyu disclosed Tuesday.
FAO chief moves to purge 'top heavy' management
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
'Coronavirus pizza' too hot to handle for Italian politicians
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
British ambassador to Italy hosts antisemitism workshop
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