ROME – The heads of the World Food Programme (WFP) and its sister agency, the FAO, have dismissed senior executives at director level found to be sex predators.

BRUSSELS — UNDER PRESSURE from Irish MEPs, the European Commission sued Italy for failing to protect the rights of foreign lecturers.

  PALERMO, Sicily -- Two months after creating a glittering sensation at the Taormina film festival, a street installation of metallised gold and silver ribbons h

 ROME – IFAD president Gilbert Houngbo’s bid to jump ship and become director General of the International Labour Organization may have hit a snag after South African ‘thought leader’ Mthunzi Mdwab

 ROME – The Biden administration is pushing for WFP Executive Director David Beasley to stand down and be replaced by an American former diplomat, David Lane, whe

 ROME – Spain’s decades-long run of bad luck in the politics of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) evidently continues as an expected show of unity by

 ROME -- IFAD President Gilbert Houngbo was under pressure to resign Wednesday following his surprise bid to head the International Labour Organization, diplomati

 ROME -- In a move evidently backed by the Islamic Conference Organization and China, the controversial International Fund for Agricultural Development (IF

BRUSSELS — Italy’s failure to compensate for discrimination against foreign university lecturers “constititutes a serious reason for concern” and the EU Commission “is currently preparing next step

 ROME -- In a move that has surprised the diplomatic community in Rome and UN staff, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)  President Gilbert

 ROME - Bruno Botta, Vice Chancellor for International Affairs at La Sapienza University, is urgently engaged with the foreign ministries, asking to persuade the

 ROME – Dutch influence at the FAO could be set to increase further with speculation that Netherlands wheeler-dealer Ilja Betlem may be promoted to Chinese DG Qu D

 ROME-- Italian special forces troops have rescued some of the hundreds of former Afghan interpreters with the Italian army who were waiting for several days with

 ROME -- The appointment of Iraqi 'hungercrat' Raschad Al-Khafaji as the head

 ROME -- The Chinese Embassy in Rome has lambasted the Forza Italia senator Maurizio Gasparri after he lashed out at Beijing in a tweet saying "China is the shame

  MOSCOW -- The 15th International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS 2021- the first international airshow since the start of the pandemic- was held on July 20-25  in

 BEIRUT – On Aug. 4 one year ago a human tragedy erupted on an apparently peaceful afternoon in the Lebanese capital. It was 6 p.m.

 NEW YORK —Days after the most recent flare-up between Algeria and Morocco over the thorny issue of Western Sahara, the

 ROME -- FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has launched a charm offensive toward France, appointing French astronaut Thomas Pesquet as a goodwill ambassador of the U