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Italy offers €300,000 in relief to Pakistan
Lecturers appeal to EU Commission Vice President
US diplomat: FAO "poster child of UN corruption"
Enrico Letta to chair XXI Pontignano Conference
EU letter outrages foreign lecturers
Turkish Ambassador to Italy says cooperation is "successful"
EU to Italy: You must fix ILVA problem
OBITUARY: Lt. Col. Thomas Huggan OBE. Popular soldier and diplomat
ROME--In his customary bowler hat and impeccable dark suit, Tom Huggan was often taken by Italian journalists for Britain's Ambassador at military ceremonies.
WFP stresses importance of hunger at UN General Assembly
FAO staff to strike over job cuts, skulduggery
FAO staff protest "dictatorial" Graziano
ROME– FAO employees held an extraordinary assembly Wednesday to discuss industrial action in protest at Director General Jose Graziano da Silva’s “shocking” decision to revoke a key labour contract
FAO purge "to cost massive compensation"
ROME-Staff cuts by FAO hatchet man Denis Aitken may cost the UN millions in legal compensation and replacing the Performance Evaluation system also will jack up costs at the agency, UN sources say.
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Honorary MBE to Monte San Martino Trust
ROME--UK Ambassador Christopher Prentice has given Antonio Millozzi an Honorary MBE from the Queen for his work at Monte San Martino Trust.
ITALIAN MASS MEDIA UNDER FINNISH SPOTLIGHTS
HELSINKI -- "The Italian media at a crossroads: evolution or agony" was the theme of a lecture in English in Helsinki, Finland, delivered by correspondent for about 25 years in the foreign press fr
Syrian envoy "still barricaded at FAO"
ROME– As the West determines how to punish Syria for using chemical weapons, Syria’s Ambassador to Italy is still on Italian soil despite U.S. protests, diplomatic sources say.
FAO job cuts "forcing staff to starve?"
ROME–FAO Chief José Graziano da Silva is “forcing staff to starve” through job cuts contravening the hunger-fighting agency's mission, it is claimed.
FAO, reneging on redeployment, threatens to fire whistleblowers
ROME – FAO management is reneging on pledges to redeploy staff whose positions are being abolished, telling them are no funds available to keep them in the troubled UN agency, sources say.
"Terror" at FAO as veterans' jobs axed
ROME– UN Food and Agriculture Organisation staff face swingeing job cuts by year end as Director General José Graziano da Silva slashes dlrs 37 million from the famine-fighting agency’s budget, FAO
Phantom filer of Knox trial in hot minestrone again?
ROME -- A bionic former Mailman may receive a "conduct card" from the foreign press circle in the Eternal City for evidently poaching on the turf of a respected female colleague, club sources say.
Obama selects new ambassador to Italy
ROME -- According to a recent release from the White House, John R. Phillips will be the next US ambassador in Italy.
Bureaucrat in UN nepotism case joins FAO
ROME– Michael T Clark, a U.S. political scientist embroiled in a UN nepotism scandal, has joined the growing army of advisers to FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, FAO sources say.
UN honours states "heavily in debt" to FAO
ROME– Turkmenistan, Sao Tome, Niger and Dominican Republic may deserve FAO honours for meeting UN development goals but all are in hefty arrears in paying dues to the UN agency, FAO sources say.
FAO chief lambasted “bullshit” by underlings
ROME– FAO chief José Graziano da Silva publicly dismissed work by senior colleagues as “huevadas” (bullshit) while working as head of the UN agency’s Latin American operation, FAO sources disclosed