ATHENS – Italian tourists arriving in Greece from the Italian regions of Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto, will be subject to swabs and a quarantine of a minimum of seven days, according
ROME – The United States remains “fully engaged” in the UN Food and Agriculture Organization as the largest single contributor despite owing the UN agency as much as dlrs 46 million in arrears, a s
ROME – The China ambassador to Italy, Li Junhua, has said that China respects the US-Italy alliance, and that it should not be an obstacle to the Italy China partnership, and further said that Chin
ROME -- A surprise decision by the FAO Director General, Qu Dongyu, to reallocate radically six assistant directors' job descriptions and move the once powerful
ROME – In a ceremony to commemorate Florence Nightingale, the 'mother of modern nursing' who emphasised data and hygiene in field hospitals, projections illuminated the facade of the Spallanzani ho
MOGADISHU — Kidnapped Italian aid worker Silvia Romano, 25, has been released, officials said Saturday.
Beppe Zaccaria, who has died at age 69, was a star foreign correspondent for la Stampa newspaper covering the Balkans and the Middle East with distinction throu
ROME – Between Jan 22 and April 1 more than 150 cases of pro-Kremlin disinformation about COVID-19 were recorded in the 'EUvsDisinfo' database, with this 'infodemic' during the epidemic sparking a
ROME - Lazio regional authorities complained that they hadn't been informed by the Italian Civil Protection Agency about the transfer of 229 tourists to Rome from the Costa Luminosa cruise ship, an
ROME - An FAO employee from the UN agency's headquarters staff who was infected with Covid 19 has died of the virus, FAO sources said.
VATICAN CITY – The Holy See may consider introducing a general lockdown after a prelate living in the Santa Marta guesthouse where Pope Francis resides was hospitalized with Coronavirus as the pon
ROME — An employee of the FAO tested positive earlier this month with Coronavirus and was hospitalized, Director General Qu Dongyu disclosed Tuesday.
ROME – FAO’s new chief of cabinet has cracked the whip on the UN agencies’ assistant director generals, apprising each of them of their duties under an ‘overseer’ deputy director general in an appa
ROME – A satirical video clip, broadcast by the French TV station ‘Canal +’ and circulated online during Tuesday morning, has caused Italian politicians to defend their food products and call for a
ROME – The British ambassador to Italy, Her Excellency Jill Morris, has spoken out about antisemitism on an all-woman panel set up to explore the sociological and cultural factors that cause intole
ROME - The Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government H.E.
ROME -- Uruguayan executive Mario Lubetkin was terminated as FAO chef de cabinet Friday by the Chinese director general of the UN agency, Qu Dongyu, and replaced by Godfrey Magwenzi, a Zimbabwean
ROME – The appointment of convicted Russian moneylaunderer Vladimir Kusnetsov to the FAO finance committee was opposed in vain by the United States and FAO’s new Chinese Qu Dongyu has turned a bli
ROME -- Investigators probing a former head of the human resources department at the FAO on charges of allegedly demanding cash in return for jobs as well
ROME – On Friday Chinese government officials voiced their displeasure at the suspension of flights to and from China, with the closure of flights between the Italy and China having been signed off
ROME -- Diplomats from Costa RIca, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Romania and China are among envoys who have failed to upgrade their subscriptions to Italian Insider’s modest diplomatic subscr
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