ROME– In a bid to shed new light on the shadowy world of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, a FAO Technical Consultation has agreed to begin developing the Global Record of Fishing Vessel

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ROME — Amid growing outrage over IFAD President Kanayo Nwanze’s wild spending on a sprawling villa on Rome’s posh via Appia Antica, IFAD acknowledged Sunday that its Ex

ROME — Felix Kanayo Nwanze, the President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has instituted spending cuts at the U.N.

ROME – Hundreds of millions of euros invested in Montenegro by Italy are syphoned into accounts controlled by Montenegrin leader Milo Djukanovic and

ROME — While France and Belgium debate the merits of a ban on the burka, the Northern League mayor of the Italian town of Novara has forged ahead with a by-law forbidding the wearing of clothes tha

ROME — Anger over corruption and nepotism in the government of President Kurmanbek Bakiev contributed to the violent unrest that broke out in the central Asian republic

The recent earthquake that struck Italy is a vivid example of the deadly consequences corruption in a government can have on a population.

Erich Kusch, a distinguished Rome-based foreign correspondent and broadcaster who in 1961 became the first German to reach the South Pole, ha

At least two ships carrying hundreds illegal immigrants trying to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa have sunk off the Libyan coast in one of the worst tragedies of

Brilliantly and ironically written, this book shades a bright light on most foggy areas around the concept of sustainabi

ROME —The row over Brazil’s refusal to extradite convicted Italian murderer Cesare Battisti showed li