ROME – Diplomats and spooks of key FAO member countries, starved of informal information, have been holding inconclusive meetings on the future of the UN agency prior to formal meetings leading up
ROME - It has been announced that an additional £1 million of funding has been pledged to charities and voluntary organisations across Europe supporting vulnerable UK Nationals applying for resid
ROME – The arrival in Beijing of American educated Honduran national Carlos Watson as the new FAO Representative in China has reinforced fears among Western diplomats that FAO Director General Qu
ROME - An officer of the Italian Navy has been arrested by Carabinieri ROS investigators in flagrante for passing state secrets to a Russian officer working at the Russian Embassy in Rome, offici
ROME – The head of security at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Piergiorgio Trentinaglia, has blocked the UN agency’s 52 security guards from futu
ROME – The Italian Ambassador assassinated in the Congo while, riding in a WFP convoy had asked the Italian Foreign Ministry in Rome for more protection but the
ROME - Over 29 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine “ready to leave for the United Kingdom” have been discovered in the Catalent factory in Anagni, near Rome.
ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has said that it ‘summarily dismissed’ a senior manager who was found guilty of sexual harassment as well as of obstructing an investigation whil
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
