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

 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