WASHINGTON – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva should make a “’public and humble” apology to FAO members over the fiasco appointment of Peruvian former first lady Nadine Heredia to the UN

 ROME -- The January conference for the Professional Women’s Association (PWA) was held in the luxurious Grand Hotel Palace Wednesday with a talk f

 ROME – The only Asian candidate to become the next head of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, Bambang Brodjonegoro, is a “low value option” who the Indonesian president evidently

 ROME -- What if you could carry with you at all times a lightweight, discreet, proven product that could help protect you from a knife attack, a b

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration will appoint an ambassador to the UN food agencies who will “clean house” at the FAO to combat Brazilian Director General José Graziano da Silva’s “sleazy” eff

 WASHINGTON – Donald Trump will not approve World Food Programme Executive Director’s Ertharin Cousin’s application for a second term at the helm of the UN agency and will replace her with someone

ROME – As FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva enters the twilight years of his flamboyant reign, insiders at the UN agency have identified leggy deputy director general Maria-Helena Semedo

 ROME -- The Italian embassy reopened in Libya in an attempt by Italian PM Gentiloni’s government to stabilize the country and collaborate against human trafficking, the Prime Minister said Tuesday

 ROME -- The real estate guru and owner of the New York Post, Peter Kalikow is rumoured as a likely successor to John R. Phillips as the US Ambassador to Italy, diplomatic sources said Tuesday.

ROME — The Food and Agriculture Organization is becoming “an openly Roman Catholic institution” with the Vatican’s permanent observer to the U.N agency, Spanish Monsigno

ROME – The U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. food agencies David Lane left Rome of his own accord and was not dismissed by the State Department, an U.S. official said Thursday.

 ROME – The British Ambassador to Italy, H.E.

ROME – The FAO barred Italian Insider's Colombian news reporter Nathalie Kantaris Diaz from attending a news conference by the Colombian President, Manuel Santos, at the UN agency Thursday in the l

 LIMA -- Former Peru first lady Nadine Heredia, appointed as head of the FAO’s Geneva liaison office, will be quizzed Wednesday

ROME – Sarah Palin will not be appointed by Donald Trump to head the World Food Programme, Ertharin Cousin, the current WFP Executive Director, has told staff of the U.N.

ROME – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, battling to retain diplomatic immunity after the end of his mandate, has proposed uniting the three Rome-based UN Food agencies including WFP and

 ROME -- Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi left Palazzo Chigi Monday after presiding over a cabinet meeting and went to the Quirinal Palace where he had another 

 ROME -- Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said Monday he will offer his resignation after polls showed the 'No' campaign winning Italy's high-stakes referendum by a huge margin.

 ROME — At least six Organisation of American State countries, spearheaded by Peru, are considering tabling a no confidence vote in FAO director general Jose Graziano da

 KRAKOW – As Theresa May received her equally dour Polish counterpart in London, it fell to the enchanting Anglo-Canadian psyche folk troubadour Simon Finn to bri