ROME - Controversial FAO CIO division chief Florentin "Dracula" Albu has bowed out of the UN agency after apparently agreeing to reject an extension of his contract, FAO sources said.
ROME –After Australian MPs read the Italian Insider story on Kanayo Nwanze’s lavish lifestlye, Australia has formally told IFAD's director general it will not re-join the UN agency, officials said.
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis postponed at the last minute Friday a pastoral vistit to the Gemelli hospital because of an “indisposition,” the Vatican said.
ROME -Kuwait is committed to using its financial punch to help Italy exit recession, endorsing “important” Italian diplomatic efforts for mideast peace, says the Kuwaiti Ambassador
CASSINO -Britain's Prince Harry and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk attended ceremonies Sunday to mark the 70th anniversary of the Polish victory at Monte Cassino.
ROME –Despite the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation being five months into the new year, many units still have no idea what their budget is, FAO sources say.
ROME– Prof. James Walston, a distinguished British political scientist, pundit on Italy and founding father of the American University of Rome, has died after a long illness, the AUR said.
REYHANLI, Turkey –Following his 152-day kidnap last year, reporter Domenico Quirico blamed a rebel unit previously known for helping journalists -The Free Syrian Army-aligned Farouq Brigades has m
VATICAN CITY –Former US Ambassador to the Holy See Miguel Diaz quit Dayton University after a probe into sexual harassment involving “unwanted advances” to a married couple, Il Messaggero reported.
LAKE GARDA- The fifth Col. Darby 40 Mile Ranger Challenge- an annual trek from Peschiera del Garda to Torbole, was led by retired Ranger Rick Tscherne in memory of Darby, the Rangers founder.
ROME – UN food agencies strongly deny Italian media reports that staff are being investigated for exploiting under-age call girls -but judicial sources identified at least one U.N.
ROME– Colleagues of Mario Lubetkin have launched a “witch hunt” to find the source of leaks about his alleged fast-track hire to head the FAO communications division, IPS sources say.
ROME –IFAD staff held hands singing Kumbaya recently but Director General Kanayo Nwanze has ended the euphoria by hiring a new Budget Director from his native Nigeria, UN sources say.
ROME–The FAO faces staff fury at the brazen rigging in appointing its Latin American communications officer, spurning qualified women to hire Juan Toha, nephew of Chile’s Socialist leader, FAO sour
ROME–American Overseas School Head Beth Pfannl reveals in an interview how the “American system of education produces students like global leader Steve Jobs.”
ROME– Britain has told Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s Government that Italy must “find a solution” to “unacceptable and illegal” discrimination of UK lecturers, Europe Minister David Lidington says.
ROME – Poverty buster José Graziano da Silva surprised neighbours the other day when he kicked in the doors of the elevator in his smart apartment block on the Aventino hill, FAO sources say.
ROME – A staffer at a United Nations food agency used an alias to cover his tracks when arranging liaisons with under age call girls in the Eternal City, judicial sources say.
ROME– Former FAO chief Jacques Diouf is being held under house arrest in his native Senegal following a tiff with Senegalese President Macky Sall, diplomatic sources say.
Cape May, NJ--Blaming the Palestinians for the apparent breakdown in Secretary of State John Kerry’s ill-fated shuttle diplomacy is like blaming the victim of a mugging for the crime.
ROME -- US President Barrack Obama had a "cordial and warm" audience with Pope Francis Thursday at the start of his visit to Italy and the Vatican, the Holy See said.
ROME – Chilean Samuel Varas, an associate of FAO DG Jose da Silva Graziano, has been hired as interim IT chief operating officer at the agency, bypassing normal UN procedures, FAO sources say.
ROME -- IFAD has vowed to cooperate with authorities investigating alleged involvement by United Nations Rome staff in a "baby call girl" racket rocking Italy's establishment.
