The following are thumbnail profiles of key ministers in the government being sworn in Friday:

 Paolo Savona

The following is a list of the ministers in Italian Prime Minister’s cabinet:

 Undersecretary to the Prime Minister: Giancarlo Giorgetti

ROME – The Five Star Movement fought hard on Wednesday to retrace the steps of their collapsed coalition, and are now willing to form an alliance without the controversial Paolo Savona as economy m

ROME - Mr David Tongue, a master with wide international experience ranging from Thailand to the Falklands, has been announced as the new Principal of St George’s British International School in Ro

ROME — FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, is evidently in a rush to fill vacant posts, fearing negative repercussions from country members of the UN agency which have been raising questio

 ROME –  Programme and Finance Committee Meetings of the FAO being held this this week were expected to hear 'flimsy excuses' from Director General José Graziano da Silva seeking to justify delayin

ROME – As the end of FAO Director General Josè Graziano da Silva’s turbulent term off office approaches, foreign diplomats are asking whether the Brazilian agronomist will, like his predecessors, d

ROME – The FAO in its latest curb on press freedom has banned a reporter from attending a Year of Zayed event to which Italian Insider was invited by the Embassy of the United Arab Emirates, disreg

ROME – Chilean honcho Samuel Varas is expected to become Assistant Director General for Corporate Services at the Food And Agriculture Organisation as Brazilian Director General José Graziano da Si

 ROME -- The World Food Programme said Wednesday it cannot confirm or deny reports by UN sources that a second WFP country director has been suspended following an investigation. 

 ROME -- A second senior WFP executive and country director of the UN agency has been suspended from duty following a sexual harassment investigation, UN sources said Wednesday.

ROME –  Wily IFAD president Gilbert Houngbo has given give hungercrat Marco Marzano de Marinis a lucrative “consolation prize” as a “Senior advisor” after bouncing the well-connected Italian out of

ROME – The relatives of three men from Naples who were allegedly sold by Mexican police officers to a drug cartel have offered a reward of two million pesos for “news” as to the whereabouts of thei

ROME – The Italian Foreign Ministry firmly rebutted Israel’s suggestion that African migrants would be relocated to the country on Tuesday, after the latter’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, an

TURIN – France’s minister in charge of overseas customs was forced to deny that Italy’s sovereignty had been violated on Tuesday and called a meeting to address the issue, after a row over customs’

 ROME – Rival would-be candidates from India to head the U.N.

ROME – The Association of the Foreign Press in Rome has elected its first female president for two decades in a move that is being hailed as an important and innovative step forward. 

ROME – Italy has joined countries across the European Union, Canada and the United States, by expelling two Russian diplomats from its shores in solidarity with the United Kingdom, despite clear si

ROME – A number of senior diplomats, advisors, scientists and business figures assembled at the Villa Wolkonsky in Rome on Friday for a conference jointly hosted by the UK and Canadian embassies, c

ROME - As the Canadian government prepares to host the G7 Summit in June 2018, the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, as the largest and most influential business organization in the country,

ROME – The Commonwealth Club gathered for their annual lunch to commemorate Commonwealth Day amidst the panoramic views of the Italian capital from Hotel Savoy.

BRUSSELS - Having declared 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage, the EU have set about hosting a series of events to emphasise the continent’s array of treasures and the corresponding “European

 ROME – The flamboyant Brazilian Ambassador to the FAO, João Carlos de Souza-Gomes, was expected to return to his post in the Eternal City this week despit

GENEVA -- The FAO director general and management are planning to abolish the living allowance for the UN agency's interns, according to the Fair Internship Initiative, an advocacy group based in G