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

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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

 ROME -- The FAO Director General, José Graziano da Silva, reportedly has applied for Italian citizenship but the Italian authorities evidently are dragging their feet over the request, perhaps bec

ROME - The ex trophy, second wife of the former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, Veronica Lario, has been ordered to repay 60 million euros to media mogul whose net worth is estimated at 4.1 bill

 ROME - Previously undisclosed documents on Giulio Regeni, the University of Cambridge student murdered in Cairo last year, have been seen by La Repubblica, and will air in a documentary

  ROME --The Commonwealth Club of Rome celebrated its 70th anniversary Friday with speeches and a luncheon at the Villa Wolkonsky, the British Ambassador’s residence in Rome, spearheaded

ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organisation, in an evident, costly move to provide support for the growing flock of rooky Latin American staff members hired by Director General José Graziano da Si

 ROME – The FAO plans to close shops and commercial banks in its building evidently to prepare for hosting a UN secretariat to coordinate the work of  UN agencies in the Eternal City and provide a

ROME - Shaking off the dust of almost 40 years, the Rome Ashes revived in the wide green open fields of Capannelle cricket ground on Saturday afternoon.

ROME – Will IFAD President Gilbert Houngbo be able to resist the charms of the UN agency’s veteran American spin doctor Cassandra Waldon?