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

 LIMA – FAO Director General Josè Graziano da Silva is part of an “international mafia” interfering in money laundering probes in Latin America by arranging safe h

ROME – As Peru formally protested to the FAO Thursday over the U.N.

  LIMA -- The Peruvian Foreign Ministry has issued an "energetic protest" to the Food and Agriculture Organisation over the UN agency's Brazilian director general

ROME — FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva has appointed former Peruvian first lady Nadine Heredia Alarcón to head the UN agency’s liaison office with the UN in

ROME -- Flamboyant Finnish FAO Forestry department director Tiina Vahanen has raised eyebrows at the UN agency after she allegedly hired an unqualified trainer and boyfriend to represent the hunger

ROME — Britain has continued to press Italy to end “unacceptable discrimination" against UK and foreign lecturers in Italian universities, the British Minister for Europ

 ROME -- Following the recent declarations of Phil Hogan, European Agriculture Commissioner, announcing his plan to allocate 15 million dollars a year to promote meat consumption in Europe, plus an

ROME – Donald Trump’s election throws into question World Food Programme Executive Director Ertharin Cousin’s candidature for re-appointment to a second term at the head of the humanitarian agency

ROME — The judge in the trial of Italian Insider’s chief editor for alleged defamation has called on FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva to appear in court in Ap

LONDON – An Italian academic, Federico Formenti, who is Senior Lecturer at King’s College London and former Senior Research Fellow at the Universit

 ROME –  UNESCO is supporting only Palestinian interests regarding Muslim holy places in Jerusalem and di

 SAN MARINO CITY -- The Kuwaiti Ambassador to Italy and to San Marino, HE Sheikh Ali Khaled Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, took part in the turning of t

 VATICAN CITY -- The papal emissary to Syria has been named as one of a group of new cardinals announced on Sunday by Pope Francis, including 13 who are eligible to succeed him.

ROME — World Food Programme executive director Ertharin Cousin is expected to backpedal on implementation of new UN rules allowing staff to postpone retirement up to age

ROME — Britain will continue to seek an early resolution to the problem of UK lecturers in Italy who constantly are forced to go to court for payment of arrears on wages

ROME -- Indian diplomat Vimlendra Sharan has been offered the job of heading the FAO’s Washington liason office, meaning that the post would be held for the first time in recent memory by someone f

ROME — The United States has become the country with the greatest under-representation of professional staff members at the FAO despite being the biggest contributor to

ROME — British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has urged Italy to allocate compensation in the next Stability law budget for discriminated UK lecturers (lettori) working

ROME – The U.S. Congress is stepping up pressure on the Obama administration to remedy the erosion of U.S.

ROME— The U.S.