Embassy Row

 ROME – Staffers from the embattled World Food Programme shed few tears on WFP facebook pages and other social media over the news that Executive Director Cindy Mc

 ROME – WFP chief of staff Meghan ‘chopper pilot’ Latcovich is expected to depart the hunger-fighting programme imminently following the resignation of WFP Executive director Cindy McCain though st

 ROME -- Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme, Thursday said she will step down, raising the prospect that US Ambassador to the UN agencies, Lynda Blanchard, a millionairess

 ROME--Maurizio Martina, former Italian Minister of Agriculture, is Italy’s pick to lead the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

 HELSINKI - Professor Emeritus Martti Koskenniemi (b.

Rome – Rwanda’s growing profile as a premier African destination for tourism and investment took centre stage at the “Visit Rwanda” Business Cocktail held in Rome.

 TAIPEI -- Coercion of Taiwan by Beijing "could never bring about peace," Taiwanese President Lai Ching-Te has told Pope Leo XIV amid rising speculation the Ameri

 Rome-- The Italian government has confirmed that agents from the United States’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will be present in Italy during the Milan Cor

 ROME – The humourless World Bank President, Ajay Banga, is axeing thousands of consultants who make up as much as 25 percent of the poverty busting agency's workf

 GENEVA -- One year after the United States announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, a former WHO Headquarters Staff Association President refl

 The great Trump has once again launched an attack, with all the force of an apparent superhero who only causes damage! 

ROME–Italy will host the first F-35 Lightning II pilot training school outside of the United States.

 Italian Insider received the foillowing information from Whistleblower Team Suisse regarding alleged corruption at UNIDO: 

 VIENNA – IAEA chief Rafael Grossi has announced he is firing one of the top French nuclear inspectors whom he previously qualified as expert after the Iranian au

Rome-- Russian ballet star Svetlana Zakharova, a former deputy in Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party, is set to perform in Rome this March, despite recent protests that led to the cancellation of

 ROME – William Supple, an Irish former senior accounts executive at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) with a colourful sense of humour and a gift fo

 ROME – FAO director general Qu Dongyu has ushered in the new year in true Chinese Communist style by promulgating  five new dubious appointments to assistant dir

 MILAN -- Italian cuisine has been officially recognised on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, a milestone hailed by mi

 BRUSSELS – The European Ombudsman, Teresa Anjinho, has opened an inquiry into a complaint by David Petrie, the head of the association of foreign university lecturers in Italy, over the Commission

  ROME -- Concerns about political favoritism have resurfaced at the UN F

 ROME – Byzantine efforts by the wily FAO Human Resources director Serge Nakouzi eveidnelty designed to keep a West African poverty-buster in a series of high pai

 ROME – The latest report of the Ombudsman at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, due to be published in July, still has not been released, evidently becaus

 ROME – Cultural quango ICCROM’s General Assembly this month rejected budget proposals by beleaguered Director General Aruna Gujral and exposed a collapse of confidence in her leadership — through

   ROME – FAO watchers have been whiling away the long winter evenings by following the nepotistic fortunes of Filippo P