ROME -- As FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has started campaigning for re-election next year, a circle of Western ambassadors have been meeting to discuss if ther

 ROME -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has stopped short of calling Russia's war in Ukraine an invasion or war, referring to the conflict as only

 ROME -- A former FAO employee has won a hard-fought victory and was awarded damages in a lengthy legal battle against the UN agency management after the ILO Administrative Tribunal recognized her

 ROME -- The Italian Supreme Court is scheduled to hear March 29  the appeal lodged in the Court of Cassation against the unfair conviction of Insider editor John

 ROME – African travel expert Michelina Sanquest has been named as a Goodwill ambassador for tourism from Italy to Zambia, the Zambian Embassy in the Eternal City announced.

 ROME – Diplomats accredited to the World Food Programme and sister agency FAO are waiting gripped for the outcome of the "internal selection process" of the WFP Executive Director under way as the

 VATICAN CITY -- Zambian President Haikainde Hichilema had a private audience with Pope Francis Saturday and discussed the economic and social situation in the so

 ROME-  The Italian Universities and Research ministry, seeking to head off EU infringement proceedings, has allocated as much as 43.5 million euros for overdue b

 ROME – The European Commission will pursue infringement proceedings against Italy for discrimination against foreign lecturers until the Italian universities “fu

 ALGIERS -- The representative of the Polisario Front to the UN and coordinator with MINURSO, Sidi Mohamed Omar, who is currently in the Tindouf refugee camps as p

ROME -- Edward Llewellyn, a political appointee as the former British Ambassador to France, has been chosen as the UK ambassador to Italy, he announced on Twitter Wednesday.

 ROME -- An Azerbaijani inter-faith delegation climaxed a five day visit to the Vatican Monday by reiterating an appeal for Pope Francis to mediate a peace agreem

 ROME -- World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley's increasing involvement in peace initiatives in Africa and central Asia has divided senior executives at the UN agency with some clai

 ROME – The current political situation in Iraq post-elections poses a grave threat to the long-term peace and stability in the country due to the continuing power of militias raised to d

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis in his Christmas Urbi et Orbi (to the city and the world) message cautioned Saturday that in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic confl

 ROME – In an opening statement to the recent FAO Council, Director General Qu Dongyu pledged “to take FAO’s work out of the castles and bring it to the people in

 LONDON – The British Government has paid rare tribute to the work of beleaguered British lecturers in Italian universities in contributing to relations between the two countries and indicated that

 JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s government has been rocked by a chorus of protest over its decision to drop its former officially endorsed candidate to head the IL