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 — 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

ROME – The World Food Programme Executive Director, David Beasley, says he “would probably sleep in a tent” rather than live in a lavish villa of the kind enjoyed by some other United Nations food

ROME- Anthony Allard is Principal for Middle and High School at Rome International School (RIS). He studied Agriculture and Biology at Bangor University in Wales.

ROME — WFP Executive Director David Beasley has told his predecessor Catherine Bertini he expects to follow “all but one” of 10 recommendations she made for cost savings

ROME — World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley has called an all staff meeting of the UN agency at headquarters Tuesday in an evident effort to bolster fla

ROME - The British Embassy’s celebrations in honour of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II’s 91st birthday took place at Villa Wolkonsky, the Ambassador’s residence in Rome. 

ROME – The Minister of Happiness in the Government of the United Arab Emirates, H.E.

ROME — Japan is likely to increase military cooperation with Italy to acquire hi-tech defence technology in an effort to fend off escalating threats from North Korea and

ROME –  Controversial former IFAD president Kanayo Nwanze has been hired by FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva to drum up support in Africa as a goodwill ambassador for the Brazilian agron

ROME – FAO supremo José Graziano da Silva is seeking to consolidate his vice-like grip on the UN agency by backing the candidature of veteran Pakistani hungercrat Khalid 'booby' Mehboob as 'Indepen