NAYPYITAW – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned of rising food and fuel prices as the current political unrest in Myanmar starts to impac
ROME – Amid widespread bloodletting at the FAO, as Chinese director general Qu Dongyu ruthlessly consolidates his position, the future of Republican-backed Deputy Director General Beth Bechdol evi
ROME -- Three FAO assistant director generals,Hiroto Mitsugi from Japan, Bukar Tijani from Nigeria and glamorous Ms Dilek Macit from Turkey have been forced to resign from their lucrative sinecure
ROME – Spanish FAO executive Rodrigo de la Puerta, who three years ago was banished to the UN agency's sleepy Brussels office, has made a remarkable comeback as director of a recently created Log
ROME – The Mauritanian Food and Agriculture Organization Assistant Director General, Ahmed ould Abdelassam, brought in as a safe pair of hands to run the 32 countries in the Near East operation of
ROME -- Two respected senior women in the top team at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) from Holland and Norway resigned suddenly this week after challenging the “top he
ROME - Pressure has mounted on former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to cut his ties with Saudi Arabia following ANSA’s interview with the fiancee of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist as
ROME - Paul Sellers, the fun-loving former head of the British Council in Italy, has resigned from the post after being accused of sexual harassment.
ROME - Italy demanded Wednesday an official investigation to be carried out by the UN and the World Food Programme into the ambush and murder of the Italian ambassador to the Congo and his Carabi
ANKARA -- Students and faculty members at Bogazici University, one of Turkey’s most prestigious universities, are protesting the appointment of a new rec
ROME -- Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and his 23 ministers were sworn in by President Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinal Palace Saturday, ending Italy's gov
ROME - There is “a new vibe within the Israeli Arab population”, and indeed in much of the Middle East, according to the Chair of the Jewish Economic Forum Jonathan Pacifici, with a culture of in
ROME - The legacy of the Abraham Accords rapprochement between Israel and the Gulf states brokered by the Trump administration may be to prevent Benjamin Netan
ROME -- Italian Democratic Party politican Maurizo Martina is joining the UN Food and Agriculture Organization as an Assistant Director General, taking up a host country slot vacated by former EU
ROME -- Italy was plunged into political chaos Thursday after former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi withdrew his Italy Viva party's support from embattled Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte's gove
MARSEILLE -- The rescue ship Ocean Viking of European search and rescue association SOS MEDITERRANEE sailed from this French port Monday headed for the central Mediterranean for the first time in
ROME -- While the Coronavirus has rightly taken much of our attention, a fundamental geopolitical
ROME -- Thousands of Italians were struggling Thursday to return home from the UK for Christmas after flights between the two countries were temporarily banned b
MAZARA DEL VALLO, Sicily – Libya has released 18 Italian fishermen, detained in Libya for some three months, foreign ministry officials said Thursday.
