ROME -- Members of the Knights of Malta have made the de

NAPLES – Italy’s Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni arrived in Sannio, in the Province of Benevento, earlier Wednesday and visited two of the region’s top companies bearing Italian brands of excellence

 ROME-- Italian journalist Gabriele del Grande landed in Bologna on Monday after being released from a Turkish detention camp. 

ROME – As if defending WFP’s budget were not enough, new Executive DIrector David Beasley may order a review of security at the UN agency’s headquarters following reports that the commute to the lo

 ROME--The Mayor of Lampedusa, Giuseppina Nicolini, and the French NGO, SOS Méditeranée have been awarded the prestigious UNESCO Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize for saving the lives of many refugees a

 ROME — Pope Francis’ media exposure during Easter celebrations confirmed his role as a popular and respected world leader, but this week a group of Catholic lay i

ROME – The judge in the trial of Italian Insider’s chief editor for alleged criminal defamation of the FAO and four of its executives this week postponed hearing of the case until Dec. 21.

ROME – WFP Executive Director David Beasley was having his first face to face meeting Wednesday with staff at agency headquarters, updating them on UN dignitaries he has met recently before arrivin

ROME – FAO DIrector General José Graziano da Silva asked for a “bilateral meeting” with then U.S. President Barack Obama last year, a letter to the U.S.

 ROME – Newly appointed WFP Executive Director David Beasley has engaged with his staff from day one in the job by sending staff a letter outlining his efforts to defend U.S.

ROME – As Kanayo Nwanze cleared his desk at IFAD this week, questions have been raised over the award of the dlrs 100,000 Africa Food Prize to the head of the UN agency by the African Green Revolut

 ROME -- With overbearing IFAD President Kanayo Nwanze ending his second and final term at the UN agency Friday, staff were counting the hours to the end of his reign of terror with many planning t

 ROME – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva announced the appointment of Trump appointee David Beasley as the new Executive Director of the World F

ROME – The World Food Programme has interviewed six purported candidates to be Executive Director of the UN agency in an elaborate charade designed to reassure members that the choice of Trump admi

 ROME -- With advisors to U.S.

 ROME -- The British Embassy has held a round table discussion entitled 'Women in the Workplace: Progress and Opportunities', to mark International Women’s Day, and the appointment of the UK’s spec

 ROME- In the latest letter of request sent to the Egyptian judicial authorities by their Italian counterparts, it has been revealed that 10 high-ranking military officials are thought to be involv

ROME – The FAO in a bizarre move has appointed as its Inspector General responsible for protecting whistleblowers Thierry Rajaobelina who as director of internal oversight at WIPO was responsible f

 ROME -- As if the UN Pension Fund’s own well-documented failings were not enough, the FAO has botched its own Staff Pension Comm

ROME -- When top war photographer Nick Cornish received an impossible assignment from the Sunday Times during the Libyan civil war he resolved three things — to take the pictures, to get out of Lib