ROME – The 16th edition of the prize of the Taste Group of the Foreign Press Association in Italy will be held in Ascoli Piceno Nov.

ROME – International news agencies were poised to record the possible resignation of embattled World Food Programme Number 2 honcho Amir Mahmoud Abdulla Wednesday as donors to the UN agency quizzed

 ROME – The Italian Insider approaches its 10^th anniversary amidst future uncertainty, but reflects on a decade of journalism from dozens of young reporters, many of them studen

ROME – WFP Executive Director David Beasley has told directors of the UN agency to drop a petition they began circulating in support of beleaguered Deputy Director Amir 'Pasha' Abdulla, telling the

 ROME – WFP Deputy Director Amir Abdulla’s extracurricular amorous activities have been an open secret at the agency for years but controversial Director of Investigators (OIGI) Barnardin Assiene c

 ROME– Four World Food Programme women employees have accused Sudanese Deputy Director Amir Abdulla of coercing them into sex while working at the Rome-based UN f

 ROME – An irate wife’s email to fellow members of the World Food Programme book club blew the whistle on Sudanese Deputy Executive Director Amir Abdulla’s amorou

 ROME – World Food Programme Deputy Director Amir Abdulla came under pressure to resign before he is fired Saturday after an external review on sexual harassment

 VENICE - The first memorial reef balls in Europe have been used to commemorate three people including two Americans in an unusually environmentally friendly way in the crystal-clear waters of the

ROME – Dozens of World Food Progamme women staffers say they have been raped or subject to attempted rape or other sexual assault by senior colleagues or bosses while working at the UN agency, many

ROME – FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has relaxed a curb on business class travel by hungercrats at the UN agency, raising hopes among staff that China may increase its contribution to the embattle

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 ROME – Pakistani Ambassador to Italy H.E.

 ROME — After what now looks like the token axeing of the FAO HR director for alleged serial sex harassment, the new Chinese supremo at the UN poverty-busting agency seems to be following in the fo

 ROME -- A conference on modern slavery will be held at Marymount School on Friday Sept. 27. Details can be found at the following link:

 ROME – The most important newcomer in the new Giuseppe Conte government cabinet is arguably that of the Interior Minister. Why?

 ROME – The following is a list of ministers in Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s new, second government:

 Cabinet under-secretary: Riccardo Fraccaro

 ROME – The Qatari Ambassador to Italy, H.E.

ROME – FAO Chinese supremo Qu Dongyu faced the first major diplomatic test of his reign Tuesday after host country Italy’s nationalist government demanded it be given a deputy director general posi

 ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organization advertised Monday for a new Human Resources director following the dismissal this month by the new Chinese management of HR supremo Fernando Servan in

 ROME — FAO staff and consultants paid tribute Monday at their headquarters to former director general Jacques Diouf, who died last week-end at age 81.

 ROME -- The new Beijing-ruled regime at the FAO has got off to a chaotic start as new Chinese attachés hired to the Cabinet of the UN agency have little or no knowledge and are incapable of speaki