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

 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

  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

  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

  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.

  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

  ANKARA -- Students and faculty members at Bogazici University, one of Turkey’s most prestigious universities, are protesting the appointment of a new rec

 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

  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

    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

 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

 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

 ROME -- Italy has been given, for 2021, the Chairmanship of the Gr

 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

 ROME -- While the Coronavirus has rightly taken much of our attention, a fundamental geopolitical

 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

 MAZARA DEL VALLO, Sicily – Libya has released 18 Italian fishermen, detained in Libya for some three months, foreign ministry officials said Thursday.

 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

 ROME -- UK advertising agency OMD has cancelled an order with Italian Insider for a British Government advertising campaign to inform British expatriates in Ital

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