ROME - FAO head Jose da Silva Graziano wants increased support against hunger from the Pope but some observers claim influence of controversial Opus Dei at the UN agency already is excessive.
ROME – FAO’s communications chief lashed out at Italian Insider’s coverage as “highly inaccurate” and “shameful” this month as Lamberto Dini strongly denied influencing staffing at the UN agency.
ROME -- FAO protocol chief Paola Dini has become a key figure in the agency's magic circle, accompanying Director General José Graziano da Silva to Calabria for his honourary citizenship recently,
AFFILE – The recent inauguration of a taxpayer-funded monument to Fascist Field Marshal Rodolfo Graziani has struck a chord with those attentive to a recent, worrisome drift to the far right.
ROME --The tragedy of a Japanese FAO staffer who jumped to his death raises questions whether the U.N. agency gives sufficient priority to staff welfare, UN sources say.
ROME- We all knew Gore Vidal. How could we not? Ubiquitous on television, as driven as an Olympic athlete, he described himself as "a third-generation celebrity."
ROME– The British Second World War veterans' leader, Harry Shindler, has been made an honourary citizen of Porto d’Ascoli in tribute to decades of work toward Anglo-Italian friendship.
ROME– FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva has strongly denied he is favouring Latin Americans since he took office at the food agency in January.
ROME-The dazzling Diamond Jubilee birthday party of Queen Elizabeth II held in Villa Wolkonski was an outstanding effort by British Ambassador, Christopher Prentice and his talented staff.
ROME- Professor, scholar and former Lemonhead guitarist Corey Brennan gave an animated, extensive farewell lecture at the American University of Rome the other day.
ROME -- Richard Vaughan has announced his resignation as chairman of the Commonwealth Club of Rome as his family prepares to relocate to the United States.
ROME-Interior Minister Annamaria Cancellieri has met with Finnish counterpart Päivi Räsänen to exchange ideas on church-state relations an
ROME- The Accademia Tedesca hosted their Festa dell’Estate or summer festival in the enchanting Villa Massimo property last week.
ROME– Christian Mersmann, the respected head of the UN’s Global Mechanism combating desertification, was sacked with two days’ notice by IFAD chief Kanayo Nwanze, UN sources said.
ROME– Kuwait is optimistic the Arab Spring will usher in political democracy throughout the Middle East with many countries following the Kuwaiti example of a parliamentary constitution and freedom
ROME– Italy, along with other major Western nations, has expelled the Syrian embassy.
KABUL -- In Afghanistan’s northern Takhar province, 120 girls and 3 teachers have been hospitalized after toxic substances were sprayed into the classrooms - only a month after 150 others fell ill
ROME -- The former Keats-Shelley curator Catherine Payling has married the well known and respected literary academic and author, Duncan Wu.
Brendan J Murphy, a distinguished author and journalist, set an apparent record for a reporter going without sleep during a hijacking when he covered a lengthy drama singlehandedly in Algiers.
ROME -- Families of WFP staffers "crack at the seams" and their children "can grow up alienated, rootless ... with heavy emotional 'baggage,' a study by the agency finds.
ROME – In celebration of the 30th anniversary of full ambassadorial relations between Britain and the Holy See, the Venerable English College in Rome hosted several high profile panel di
ROME -- Former mujahedin leader and current Afghan Parliamentary Justice Commission chief Hajji Mohammad Mohaqiq visited Rome recently at the invitation of the Afghan community in Italy.
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ROME -- Italy has closed its embassy to Syria and withdrawn all diplomatic staff from the country.
ROME -- Commonwealth Day was celebrated in the Eternal City with a panel discussion between high profile diplomats and members of the Commonwealth Club of Rome.
ROME -- Not following the rules is fine as long as you succeed but when an operation fails, especially a military operation where lives are at stake, then there is inevitably a double blame – for
