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FAO Spanish comeback marks Chinese DG second term bid
ROME – Spanish FAO executive Rodrigo de la Puerta, who three years ago was banished to the UN agency's sleepy Brussels office, has made a remarkable comeback as director of a recently created Log
FAO Mauritanian mideast kingpin axed by Chinese DG
ROME – The Mauritanian Food and Agriculture Organization Assistant Director General, Ahmed ould Abdelassam, brought in as a safe pair of hands to run the 32 countries in the Near East operation of
Exclusive:IFAD women bosses quit over ‘heavy’ Houngbo
ROME -- Two respected senior women in the top team at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) from Holland and Norway resigned suddenly this week after challenging the “top he
Khashoggi's fiancee mounts criticism on Renzi's Saudi links
ROME - Pressure has mounted on former Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to cut his ties with Saudi Arabia following ANSA’s interview with the fiancee of Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist as
Ex British Council head 'grabbed diplomat's breast'
ROME - Paul Sellers, the fun-loving former head of the British Council in Italy, has resigned from the post after being accused of sexual harassment.
Italy demands WFP investigation into diplomat's death
ROME - Italy demanded Wednesday an official investigation to be carried out by the UN and the World Food Programme into the ambush and murder of the Italian ambassador to the Congo and his Carabi
Turkey slams international comments on Bogazici protests
ANKARA -- Students and faculty members at Bogazici University, one of Turkey’s most prestigious universities, are protesting the appointment of a new rec
Draghi's new Italian government sworn in at Quirinal Palace
ROME -- Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and his 23 ministers were sworn in by President Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinal Palace Saturday, ending Italy's gov
EGIC conference: 'cultural revolution' in Middle East
ROME - There is “a new vibe within the Israeli Arab population”, and indeed in much of the Middle East, according to the Chair of the Jewish Economic Forum Jonathan Pacifici, with a culture of in
Conte resigns to concoct new cabinet with starlet Boschi
EGIC conference: Whither the Abraham Accords after Trump?
ROME - The legacy of the Abraham Accords rapprochement between Israel and the Gulf states brokered by the Trump administration may be to prevent Benjamin Netan
British Ambassador, “We have left the EU, not Europe”
PD wizard Martina hired by FAO as ADG
ROME -- Italian Democratic Party politican Maurizo Martina is joining the UN Food and Agriculture Organization as an Assistant Director General, taking up a host country slot vacated by former EU
Conte fights to survive after Renzi ministers quit
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
Comment: Italy and the dubious honor of chairing the G20
SOS Mediterranée rescue ship returning to central Med
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
In FAO 2021 musical chairs, USA eyes China DG
Comment: The Second Cold War is coming
ROME -- While the Coronavirus has rightly taken much of our attention, a fundamental geopolitical
Twenty drown in migrant shipwreck off Tunisia
Italians battle to return home from UK
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
Libya releases 18 Italian fishermen
MAZARA DEL VALLO, Sicily – Libya has released 18 Italian fishermen, detained in Libya for some three months, foreign ministry officials said Thursday.
Exclusive:FAO fires whistleblower for exposing plant convention manipulation
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
OMD agency slashes Italy Brexit expat ad campaign
ROME -- UK advertising agency OMD has cancelled an order with Italian Insider for a British Government advertising campaign to inform British expatriates in Ital
Four Egyptian spies charged with brutal murder of Cambridge student
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