VATICAN CITY – In what Holy See commentators are describing as a surprising move, retired pope Benedict XVI has made a statement in defence of priestly celibacy in response to a proposal to allow m

 New York -- Just 11 days after Abdelmadjid Tebboune was elected president of a deeply polarised Algeria, the country’s powerful military chief, Lt Gen.

MACERATA - The children of the ancient Andriatic town, thanks to the solidarity of Qatar, received Saturday a modern school complex to replace the one damaged by the earthquakes that hit Central It

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 ROME – FAO investigators are dragging their feet over opening a formal probe into ADG Roberto Ridolfi’s evident conflict of interest using his position at the U.

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 ROME – Donald Trump will seek to whip up racism and xenophobia among Americans increasingly as the 2020 election approaches, with potentially catastrophic consequences for the United States now be

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 ROME – British Ambassador to Italy Jill Morris held a conversation with writer and television creator Daisy Goodwin about the topic of women in leadership in an inspiring evening at Villa Wolkonsk

ROME — Chilean CIO director at the FAO, Samuel Varas, has been sacked as part of a wide ranging purge at the UN agency in which Chinese officials have taken over the IT division, FAO sources said.

 ROME -- FAO Assistant Director General Roberto Ridolfi's son Francesco sent an email to the Fiera di Roma president Pietro Piccinetti last year attaching a draft consultancy contract under which t

 ROME – A party for two hundred guests was held at the British Ambassador’s Residence in honour of St Andrew’s Day, featuring Scottish traditional dances and music.

 ROME – The Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) was scheduled to host the launch of a new book about American foreign policy and counter-terrorism strategy under Donald Trump next week on Dec 6.

ROME – FAO ADG Roberto Ridolfi played a key role this year in advising the Fiera di Roma trade fair how to garner funds from the ENEL energy corporation for the ExCo cooperation fair and Fiera di R

 ROME -- A senior Italian Food and Agriculture Organization executive's bid to become No 2.

 ROME-- FAO Assistant Director General Roberto Ridolfi has strongly denied any conflict of interest between his institutional role and his support of the EXCO cooperation fair held in the Eternal C

 ROME - Jude Kirton-Darling MEP has written to the EU Commissioner for Justice, Věra Jourová asking for infringement proceedings against Italy concerning 30 years of 'pass the parcel' discriminatio

 ROME – Poland’s new ambassador to Italy, Anna Maria Anders, daughter of World War Two hero General Wladyslaw, marked the beginning of her new posting and her family's return to the Eternal City wi

 ROME -- The new Director General of the FAO, Qu Dongyu, has underlined his emphasis on the UN agency's work in Africa by appointing as a special advisor a Zimbab

ROME – The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will splurge as much as half a million euros of taxpayers’ money on building a huge tent structure on its headquarters car park to