ROME -- China may have 'bought votes' in the FAO election by paying the back dues to the UN agency of up to 24 poor countries in return for a pledge to vote for Beijing's candidate, diplomatic sour

 ROME – Georgia’s candidate for the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director General, Davit Kirvalidze, pledged Wednesday to involve all professional staff at the UN agency in planning a bo

ROME - A pioneer and trend-setter in Italian 20th century film and opera, Franco Zeffirelli died last week aged 96 at hi

ROME - Some 2,000 people last night celebrated Queen Elizabeth II’s 92nd birthday at a colourful event inaugurating the Eternal City’s high summer season in the V

 ROME -- India pulled its candidate out of the race to become Director General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation Thursday, leaving Georgia as the only developing country in the contest ag

ROME – Two weeks before the election of the Food and Agriculture Organisation new Director General,  Georgia’s dark horse candidate Davit Kirvalidze is emerging as a compromise figure who might win

ROME — A Kuwaiti diplomat and chargé d’affaires has asked for a ’50 percent’ cut of money owed to the Italian Insider by the Kuwaiti Embassy, which has refused to pay for years for work the Embassy

ROME — FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva is plotting to retain effective control of the UN agency by negotiating with China to remain a high level consultant while Beijing’s candidate to

 BRUSSELS – The International Federation of Journalists condemned the UN Food and Agriculture (FAO) criminal libel case against the Italian Insider Friday calling

PALERMO - Lebanon’s Ambassador to Italy Mira Daher was amongst those present at the inauguration of the Mosaic of Peace, a new art project symbolising a global collaboration to tackle the migrant c

ROME – The British embassy hosted an event on Tuesday celebrating the revolutionary role of fashion and highlighting its support for the LGBT campaign, Love is GREAT.

  ROME – FAO conference services director Raqesh Muthoo has axed a key elections officer at the UN agency and appointed a reputed acolyte to the sensitive post at the UN agency amid jockeying for p

ROME - Venezuela's ambassador to Italy, Isaías Rodríguez, has resigned his position due to financial difficulties caused by the US embargo meaning the Embassy cannot pay employees and faces eviciti

ROME - Dr Nelson Robelly Lozada, the Ecuadorian ambassador to Italy, warned that greater dialogue and humanity are needed if the international community are to transcend politics and conflicts and

ROME – The United States is considering supporting dark horse Georgia in the upcoming election for the new chief of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on the ground that the former Soviet

 ROME -- Francophone African countries have endorsed France's candidate to run the FAO as Uruguay announced it will vote for China's deputy agriculture minister Qu Dongyu in a sign that outgoing di

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis expressed his “sadness and pain” Sunday at the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka that killed circa 300 Christians at churches across the

ROME - UK Ambassador to Italy hosted a delegation of the British and Italian cultural elite on Tuesday evening, official sources report.

ROME –  Candidates competing to be the next FAO director general set out their platforms during a Council Session last week but their speeches mysteriously were not broadcast on the webcast system

ROME - The University of Cambridge English Language Assessment has announced the best schools in Italy for English language learning.

 ROME – The International Fund for Agriculture and Development (IFAD) President, Gilbert Houngbo, is asking the UN agency's board to leave the International Labour Organization Administrative Tribu