ROME—FAO chief José Graziano da Silva has cut some 16 jobs from the UN agency’s IT division in what staff claim is “random, rather personal” culling of employees, FAO sources say.

ROME--UK Ambassador Christopher Prentice has given Antonio Millozzi an Honorary MBE from the Queen for his work at Monte San Martino Trust.

ROME – FAO management is reneging on pledges to redeploy staff whose positions are being abolished, telling them are no funds available to keep them in the troubled UN agency, sources say.

ROME– UN Food and Agriculture Organisation staff face swingeing job cuts by year end as Director General José Graziano da Silva slashes dlrs 37 million from the famine-fighting agency’s budget, FAO

 NEW YORK-Algeria, a major oil-gas exporter with a young population of 37 million, is led by a 76-year-old who says he fought France --Abdelaziz Bouteflika represents a generation legitimising hege

SKOPJE -- When I mentioned to friends in Italy and the UK that I was coming to work in Macedonia, most had only the dimmest idea of the country, or even that it exists as an independent state.

ROME -The Corriere della Sera recently reported on “A European police force answerable to no Parliament” - the European Gendarmerie Force, an embryo EU paramilitary riot-police batallion, with 800

ROME – The past year has seen a dramatic increase in sales of British memorabilia among the expat community, according to online supermarket British Corner Shop.

ROME– FAO chief José Graziano da Silva dropped plans to hire consultant Telma Viale as HR chief after viewing an artistic  video in which she apparently strips to the buff, FAO sourc

ROME -- The world’s largest expat survey has been launched this week, offering participants the chance to win £1,000 in cash.

 ROME -- UN World Food Programme's Executive Director, Ertharin Cousin, left Saturday on a 10 day trip to review hunger challenges in four African countries.

ROME--Remittances sent home by migrants, “can empower rural people to blaze a trail out of poverty and exclusion,” Kanayo Nwanze, IFAD'S controversial president, says.

VATICAN CITY– Police arrested a prelate working with the Vatican bank, a spy and a broker on money laundering charges Friday as Italy tightened pressure on the Holy See’s dubious financiers.

ROME– Michael T Clark, a U.S. political scientist embroiled in a UN nepotism scandal, has joined the growing army of advisers to FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, FAO sources say.

ROME- An American stewardess was arrested at Fiumicino airport after police discovered a gun in her hand luggage that may be linked to recent criminal activity in the capital, police sources say.