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

 NEW YORK – Women attending a UN international civil servants conference complained to organisers Wednesday over the presence of FAO Human Resources Director Fernando Servan who has been dubbed a '

ROME — Cameroon has withdrawn its candidate to be the next FAO Director General following pressure from France and China, narrowing the contest to candidates from Georgia and India as well as the F

ROME — A judge at the Rome Tribunal has ordered an investigating magistrate to place Italian Insider ’s chief editor under a new investigation for alleged ‘clandestine publication’ after a lawyer f

BEIRA – The United Nations World Food Programme has stepped up its food distributions in and around Beira following the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai, the worst natural disaster to have struck

 VALLETTA, Malta -- Spearheaded by the venerable Times of Malta, the English-language press remains effectively the last bastion of democracy in this troubled Mediterranean island following the gra

 VALLETA, Malta -- Supporters of Daphne Caruana Galizia last week-end staged protests for a 17th month demanding Malta hold a public inquiry into the murky murder of the investigative journalist.

 ROME -- The World Food Programme said Tuesday that is staff may refuse to fly on an airline or type of aircraft allocated to them for official travel.

ROME - The South African government have renewed their commitment to a partnership with the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) that aims to tackle scientific and

ROME – As many as eight employees from the Rome-based UN food agencies WFP and FAO were among the 157 people killed Sunday when an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner crashed soon after take off from Addis

 ROME -- FIve candidates from Cameroon, China, France, Georgia and India have thrown their hats officially in the ring for the election of the new Director General of the FAO in June, the UN agency