ROME -- The FAO Conference has elected Ambassador Hans Hoogeveen, the Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations in Rome,
ROME - On Sunday June 6, in the evocative setting of the Antico Caffè Greco, for centuries a point of reference for cu
ROME – Algerian journalist Mourad Rouighi and his Spanish and Turkish colleagues Ana Quiles and Dundar Kesapli have received coveted awards for their professiona
ROME - The Italian Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, has summoned the UAE’s Ambassador in Italy, Omar Al Shamsi, to the Farnesina after a plane full of Italian journalists blocked from flying over
HERAT - Several Afghan civilians who worked in various functions for the Italian, British and American armed forces during conflict in their country have launched an urgent appeal for help gettin
ROME – An Italian appeal court on Friday rejected an appeal by Italian Insider’s chief editor against his lower court conviction on charges of criminally "tarnish
ANKARA - Turkey's determination to start a fresh dialogue with Washington was revealed at diplomatic talks between U.S.
ROME -- Western diplomats accredited to the FAO have been mulling the relevance to the UN poverty-busting agency of the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedne
ALGIERS - The clampdown and arrests of demonstrators and civil society activists taking part in the Hirak, Algeria's pro-democracy movement, are on the rise again in the weeks before the 12 June
BUCHAREST -- We are in a period of relative peace and a ceasefire armistice, fighting and destruction in the Middle East as agreed by Israel and the Palestinian
ROME -- Jaded FAO staff struggling to work from home without human contact with their colleagues were not overly impressed by a town hall meeting presided over b
ROME -- EU countries are divided and evidently increasingly at odds with the EU Commission in Brussels over extra-budget financing for FAO activities including relief of emergencies, diplomatic so
ROME – Dominic Republic Ambassador Mario Arvelo Caamano is the favourite in the race with two EU candidates (Netherlands and Hungary) for the influential post of
ROME - The British Ambassador to Italy, Jill Morris, has pledged that “there will be no more cases of this kind,” in r
CUETA - According to many analysts, the sudden influx of about 8,000 migrants in the past 48 hours in the small Spanish enclave of Ceuta, was a message from Mor
TBILISI – Georgia is celebrating the 700th anniversary of the birth of Dante Alighieri with a constellation
ROME - In light of the numerous reported cases of Italian and European citizens being detained and deported by the UK’s border force, Benedetto Della Vedova, Undersecretary of State for Foreign A
ROME - With the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia over, there is a need to transform the “after” into an opportunity.
ALGIERS – An FAO Representative has left his post in a north African capital after the UN agency executive was found by local police wearing women’s clothing dur
KHARTOUM – A fun-loving FAO representative in one of the largest countries in Africa has as many as three wives but surprised staff by embarking on a further rom
ABU DHABI - Italians diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates are at an all time low, with several defence contracts being directed to other countries and former Prime Minister Giuseppe
ROME - Almost a month after Italy expelled two Russian officials working in the Rome embassy, Russia has finally responding, kicking out a Defence Attaché from the Italian embassy in Moscow.
ROME - The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Luigi Di Maio, is visiting the United Arab Emirates on 25-27 April 2021.
