ROME — Asia, Africa and Europe evidently have fielded candidates to become the FAO new director general though the secretive UN agency stopped short of disclosing the names of those running in the

 ROME – Foreign investors in the African Development Bank (AFDB) spearheaded by Italy increasingly are concerned by the flamboyant management style of its

ROME – British Member of European Parliament (MEP) Jude Kirton-Darling backed the Association of Foreign Lecturers in Italy’s (ALLSI) call to European Commissioner of Justice Věra Jourová for the C

ROME – Three veteran journalists, an American, a Spaniard and a Turk, are battling to become the new president of the Foreign Press Association grouping hundreds of foreign correspondents based in

ROME – Fun-loving FAO deputy chef de cabinet Rakesh Muthoo is tipped to become the new Director of FAO Conference Services imminently, in time to head the team that will organize the voting procedu

 FLORENCE -- The German government has acknowledged that a painting looted by Nazi soldiers during the Second World War does indeed belong to the Uffizi Galleries in Florence.

ROME - Women in Finance returns once again for its second edition, with the awards ceremony set to take place on March 7 at the Borsa Italiana headquarters in Milan, Corriere della Sera reports.

ROME – An Italian judge on Tuesday adjourned to Jan.

 VATICAN CITY -- The American head of the Vatican press office, Greg Burke, has resigned together with his deputy, Paloma Garcia Ovejero, the Vatican announced Monday, as the firece infighting betw

ROME – Brazilian FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, preparing to step down in 2019, secretly has appointed his Uruguayan chef de cabinet Mario Lubetkin to the position of Assistant Direct

 ROME -- Silvia Romano, the 23 year-old volunteer abducted by gunmen in Kenya last November, is alive and is in Kenya, says Noah Mwivanda, Kenyan Coast Regional P

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis called Tuesday in his urbi et orbi message for peace around the world, saying that the universal message of Christmas is that “we are all brothers and sisters.” He urged

ROME – An Italian technology firm, the Milan Hacking Team, is suspected of providing the Saudi Arabian government with the spy software used to follow Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist murdered in th

NAPLES – Jill Morris, the British Ambassador to Italy, has been welcomed at the Palazzo San Giacomo by the mayor of Naples as part of her visit to the South of Italy this week.

 ROME – The ambassadors of Armenia and Lebanon to Italy joined respected Lebanese correspondent Talal Khrais and dozens of colleagues at a reception this week marking 30 years of distinguished repo

 ROME – Plans by International Fund for Agricultural Development President Gilbert Houngbo to allow the UN agency to buy and sell companies in developed countries rather than making loans to develo

ROME – The FAO has dismissed an eyewitness account of sexual harassment by HR chief Fernando Servas as “a rumour concerning activities outside the workplace” and in typical UN whitewash style claim

 ROME – The Peruvian director of Human Resources at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Fernando Servan, climaxed an alcohol-fuelled evening with

ROME – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva and his wife took time off the other day to join a rally in support of PT Brazilian candidate Fernando Haddad outside the Brazilian Embassy in Pia

 ROME – The FAO Director General, José Graziano da Silva, has conceded that the UN agency is in a ‘cash crisis’ due to late contributions payment by member countries though he stopped short of disc

ROME – Scores of Italian consultants have left the FAO after the UN agency told them that their contracts would not be extended beyond the end of October as part of a new policy by Director General