ROME -- Italy was plunged into political chaos Thursday after former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi withdrew his Italy Viva party's support from embattled Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte's gove
MARSEILLE -- The rescue ship Ocean Viking of European search and rescue association SOS MEDITERRANEE sailed from this French port Monday headed for the central Mediterranean for the first time in
ROME -- While the Coronavirus has rightly taken much of our attention, a fundamental geopolitical
ROME -- Thousands of Italians were struggling Thursday to return home from the UK for Christmas after flights between the two countries were temporarily banned b
MAZARA DEL VALLO, Sicily – Libya has released 18 Italian fishermen, detained in Libya for some three months, foreign ministry officials said Thursday.
ROME -- The FAO has sacked a whistleblower who fought to prevent the UN agency diluting the vital International Plant Protection Convention, which is designed to prevent the spread between countri
ROME -- UK advertising agency OMD has cancelled an order with Italian Insider for a British Government advertising campaign to inform British expatriates in Ital
ROME – Italian magistrates charged four Egyptian intelligence agents for the “abject and futile” murder of Cambridge student Giulio Regeni who was tortured to a slow death in 2016 by the Cairo spie
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ROME -- Four members of the 18-member Staff Council of the World Food Programme’s Professional Staff Association have resigned in the past six weeks including the Treasurer responsible for the co
ROME – Pesticide Action Network, Public Eye, Third World Network and other environmental watchdog NGOs have circulated a petition urging the FAO to drop plans to
ROME — A judge at the Rome Tribunal Friday ordered the archiving of a second case brought against Italian Insider chief editor John Phillips by the Food and Agri
ROME -- An unprecedented letter of intent signed by the FAO Director-General, QU Dongyu, and Giulia Di Tommaso, President and CEO of CropLife Internationa
ROME -- The axeing of former EU investment guru Roberto Ridolfi from his position as an FAO Assistant Director General has left five other ADGs being held
ROME -- The FAO former ADG Roberto Ridolfi evidently has had his contract terminated and left the UN agency amid concern over alleged conflicts of interests the
ROME --A flight carrying the leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (North), Abdulaziz Al-Hilu, was expressly authorized by the WFP Executive Director, David Beasley, to facilitate negotiatio
ROME – Algeria’s upcoming referendum gives the north African nation a chance to reform its constitution meaningfully for the first time since independence
ROME – Staff at the WFP office in Sudan are concerned they may be at risk from retaliation after Gavin Gramstad, a Special Assistant to the WFP Executive Directo
ROME – A self-styled group of ‘concerned WFP staff’ has raised questions about the appointment of American aid worker and consultant Gavin Gramstad as a Special
BRUSSELS – European Parliament Members from across the spectrum have urged the European Commission to crack down on Italy for its “unacceptable” decades-long dis
ROME -- A former senior economist at the UN Food and Agriculture organization has strongly denied reports that he allegedly defrauded the UN agency of as much as
