ROME – Magistrates who prevented Ignacio Lula da Silva attending an FAO conference in Africa last week-end suspected the trip may have heralded an attempt by the former Brazilian president to avoid

 ROME — A senior Food and Agriculture Organization human resources executive “tried to force himself” on a female member of staff and in another episode began groping an employment candidate during

ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO)  claims it is tightening its policy on sexual harassment but critics at the UN agency say the policy is “going backwards” by removing clear deadli

ROME – Apparently a typical former British Army officer, the senior WFP official at the heart of a mushrooming sexual harassment probe became a member of the UN committee setting up rules on sex ab

ROME – A senior World Food Programme executive responsible for the UN agency’s hunger-fighting operations in strife-torn Afghanistan has been suspended from duty in Kabul following an external inve

ROME - The vibrancy of Beirut's art scene is on full display at Rome's MAXXI museum until May 2018, in a sprawling show that tackles the themes of place, conflict and memory.

ROME— One of the few women executives to reach a high-level position in the macho-dominated world of the Food and Agriculture Organisation, Fernanda Guerrieri, has been

 VATICAN CITY – Mornings will not be the same for tens of thousands of expatriates in Rome and elsewhere in 2018 after the Holy See over the past few months axed

ROME – The World Food Programme boosted its income by up to dlrs 1 billion last year as the UN agency retained “strong support” in the United States while Britain, Germany and the EU also are stepp

HELSINKI -- In the various international rankings, Finland regularly conquers top positions despite its relatively small number of inhabitants.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis issued a heartfelt Christmas Day appeal for peace in Jerusalem and the Holy Land Monday, calling for “peaceful co-existence of two States” in an Urbi et Orbi address tha

ROME – A senior FAO official told a court Thursday that Italian Insider had "scandalously" accused him of "providing prostitutes" for former FAO director general Jacques Diouf, strongly denying any

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ROME - The Euro-Gulf Information Centre began their historical lecture series this month with a talk on the Italian scholar of Libyan history, Leone Caetani, b

ROME – FAO staff representation bodies have lambasted Director General José Graziano Da Silva at the UN agency’s annual council, saying that under his leadership “FAO seems to continue on a path to

ROME – British homeless activist Steven Barnes has been experiencing the trials of living on the streets of the Eternal City again as temperatures plummet and his mates sleeping under a motorway br

ROME – A number of high level FAO staff are asking for and receiving from Director General José Graziano da Silva a special exemption to the UN agency’s official retirement age of 62, FAO sources s

ROME - A professional training conference will take place next week aiming to instruct Italian businesses on how to expand their corporations, and invest intelligently, in the American ma

 ROME — FAO staff are up in arms over the Brazilian management’s decision to close the UN agency over Christmas week but t