ROME — The first version of the hallowed FAO 70th year book was among the documents that had to be destroyed and re-written from scratch due to the poor language skills
ROME — Britain’s newly-appointed ambassador to Italy, Jill Morris, has told the Italian government that the Foreign Office will seek to persuade Cambridge University to
ROME -- Palazzo Chigi's official photographer was too quick for FAO honcho Mario Lubetkin (right) in this snap of those participating at a meeting between a suntanned Italian Prime Minister Matteo
ROME — The Italian Parliament shortly will be considering one of many government requests to buy more weapons from the Ministry of Defence or state-controlled defence companies such as FInmeccanica
ROME – The quality of FAO documents and publications has plunged in recent months, becoming frequently unreadable gibberish as increasing numbers of poorly qualified Spanish staff are hired to the
ROME - - Following the imminent retirement of Father Federico Lombardi, Pope Francis Monday appointed new heads of the Press office of the Vatican, Gregory Joseph Burke and Paloma Garcia Oviedo, t
ROME — IFAD President Kanayo Nwanze may have had to move out of his luxury villa because of an expenses scandal but Warwick University has recognized the Nigerian poverty buster's sterling qualitie
ROME -- A fashion show was set to be held in the Dutch ambassador Joep Wi
VATICAN CITY -- As the final day of the Vatileaks trial takes place on Tuesday the sentences have been requested as four prison terms and o
DAKHA, Bangladesh— Several Italians were killed by throat-slitting Isis terrorists who took dozens of foreigners hostage in an attack on a
ROME -- On the occasion of World Refugee Day, OSCE parliamentarians have called on countries across the OSCE region to more equi
Rome-- A World War II veteran living in Italy, Harry Shindler, is preparing an appeal to the United Nations Human Rights Council to overturn
ROME -- The Qatari ambassador to Italy Abdulaziz Bin Ahmed Al Malki Al Jehani invited 40 guests to join him for Iftar, the evening meal eaten by Muslims to break fast at the end of a day during th
ROME – United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ambassador to Italy HE Saqer Alraisi has been accused by staff of abusing the visa system after Italy reje
ROME – The presence of Cardinal Bernard Law, the Roman Catholic prelate disgraced in the Boston child abuse scandal, among the guests at the British Embassy to the Holy See’s garden party to celeb
ROME—Seven employees of the United Arab Emirates embassy in Rome have started proceedings against the UAE Ambassador, H.E.
ROME – Cambridge dons who supervised the research of Giulio Regeni, the 28 year old Italian student at Girton College, Cambridge, brutally tortured and murdered by Egyptian security services while
ROME -- The body of Mauro Monciatti, a 63 year old official for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs who was originally from Sinalunga in the province of Siena and serving in Caracas, has been
QANDIL, Iraqi Kurdistan -- “They’ve killed my uncle, massacred my friends in the street like animals.
ROME – FAO Director General Jose Graziano da Silva surprised donors this week by disclosing that he intends to widen the brief of the famine-fighting UN agency to include migration, an area that is
BRASILIA— FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva has indicated he will give cash-strapped Brazil a 25 percent discount on its annual contribution to the UN agency worth some dlrs 3 million to
ROME—Italy will lose as much 2 billion worth of orders for Finmeccanica defence equipment with India after the Indian government placed state-run industrial concern ENI on the black list in apparen
