ROME – A senior FAO officer during a coffee break on the FAO panoramic terrace with female colleagues "openly discussed his preferences about women’s physical attributes," investigators at the UN

 VENICE - The Venice councillor for tourism, Simone Venturini, received the British ambassador to Italy, Ed Llewellyn, at Ca' Farsetti who came to Venice to attend the "Venice Coronation Reception"

 ROME – The abrupt withdrawal of two candidates from Iraq and Tajikistan from their official bid to challenge the re-election of the Chinese director general of the FAO, Qu Dongyu,

 VATICAN CITY – Security was tightened around Pope Francis’s tiny city state Friday after a deranged driver Thursday evening crashed a car at high speed through two Swiss Guard and gendaremie check

 ROME – Arman Soldin, 32, was killed on Tuesday whilst reporting from the warzone in eastern Ukraine after being hit by rocket fire near Chasiv Yar, just west of Bakhmut. Soldin had previously been

  ROME -- A new decree law issued by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's cabinet urging universities to pay back wages and pensions to foreign lecturers evidently is a 'half-hearted attempt' to

 ROME – On the occasion of the coronation of King Charles, Dario Pizzetti, who has been the head chef at the British Embassy in Rome for almost 20 years, recalls that the King cannot be without mas

 WARSAW - Italian President Sergio Mattarella was welcomed at the Presidential Palace in the Polish capital by Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda and his wife Agata on his state visit.

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis will not attend the traditional Good Friday open air Way of the Cross service and procession at the Colosseum due to cold weather in the Eternal City, the Vatican pres

 ROME – American Academy and Grammy Award nominated actor, Matt Dillon, was enchanted by the new “Stars of San Lorenzo” exhibition at its opening on March 31, reported gallery officials. 

 VATICAN CITY – Walking with a stick, Pope Francis opened the celebration of a solemn Palm Sunday Mass in St Peter’s Square on Sunday, a day after being discharged from hospital where he was treate

 ROME -- Pope Francis will remain hospitalized at the Gemelli Polyclinic for several days to treat what is described as a respiratory infection, the Vatican said, throwing into doubt whether he wil

  TBILISI, GEORGIA – Georgians hailed their Serie A Napoli club striker Khvicha ‘Kvara’ Kvaratskhelia’s engagement to glamorous fiancée Nitsa Tavadze, climaxing h

 ROME – A professor at the Bocconi University has demanded Italian Insider’s chief editor pay him as much as 130,000 euros for civil damages he claims he is owed

 ROME – Ambassadors in the Eternal City climaxed Commonwealth Day by raising plastic glasses of prosecco to toast King Charles III but the envoys were divided ove

    ROME – Harry Shindler, one of the last surviving British veterans of the battle of Anzio in 1944, a tireless, anti-fascist campaigner who spent decades tracin

 ROME – Italian officials preparing for an inspection next month of the Eternal City’s capacity to host the EXPO 2030 are concerned that the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director Gene

 ROME – The FAO and a constellation of other Chinese-run UN agencies have hired softwear engineers from hi-tech companies such as Bytedance, Huawei, Zoom, and ZTE software to run surveillance of st

 Every Italian prime minister for the past 30 years, from Carlo Ciampi’s administration up to the present government led by Giorgia Meloni has been told by the Eu

 ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organization’s internal oversight investigators carried out covert surveillance of former Assistant Director General Roberto Rido

 ROME –The election of radical feminist Ellie Schlein as the new secretary of the previously flagging Democratic Party boosted support for the former communist grouping by as much as thre

 WARSAW - US president Joe Biden and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg met with the Bucharest Nine Summit to discuss how to proceed in Ukraine.

 VIENNA -- As Russian President Vladimir Putin threatens to withdraw from the Comprehensive Nucear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and resume nuclear testing, two Vienna-b

 NEW YORK -- In Algeria, the old guard is back in power. And the repressive measures have resumed.