ROME–Inter Press Service’s quest for a new “director general” succeeding Mario Lubetkin at the radical organ raises questions over autocratic management under failed politician Giovanni Spinelli, m
ROME– Foreign Policy Magazine has included Cecile Kyenge, Italy’s first black Cabinet minister, on its the list of 100 most influential global thinkers.
ROME–FAO chief medical officer Cedric Dumont has been reprimanded for offering potentially suicidal staff at the UN agency a course on “managing stress in a changing workplace,” FAO sources say.
ROME–FAO has hired Brazil`s controversial former agrarian reform guru Rolf Hackbart to head the UN agency`s partnership division in yet another nepotistic top appointment, FAO sources say.
ROME -- Harry Shindler, head of the Italy Star association of former British servicemen, has been appointed MBE in the Queen's New Year's Honours list, Buckingham Palace said.
Dear Mr Philips,Reference is made to the letter of the co-founder of IPS, published by you on 23rd December 2013- We are writing to you to clarify a series of mistakes published by your site concer
Dear Mr Filipowicz, I am the founder of IPS, and I think It is clear that you are engaged in a hatchet job against the appointment of Mario Lubetkin as Director of Communication of FAO , or may be
ROME–FAO watchers have urged a review of procedures used to appoint Mario Lubetkin as Communications chief at the UN agency, the latest in a series of unorthodox hirings in the FAO's media division
ROME – World Bank flak Sergio Jellinek has been chosen to head the troubled IPS agency in Rome amid speculation IPSTV will be refinanced by Argentinian entrepreneur Jose Luis Manzano, media sources
ROME – As IPS agency chief Mario Lubetkin prepares to head FAO’s byzantine communications division, Italy has pledged dlrs 250,000 to the UN agency to commission articles from IPS about Expo Milan
ROME–Two women development experts discarded in a rigged FAO job appointment for Latin American Communications officer are considering appealing against their rejection in favour of Juan Jose Toha,
ROME–FAO has signed Mario Lubetkin, head of IPS news agency, as its Communications chief, climaxing the unusual rapport between the UN agency and the Italian-funded news agency, FAO sources say.
ROME – An Asian clan bid to increase influence at FAO failed after a Japanese rival became Evaluation Director but the subcontinent "mafia" catapulted a female companion to promotion, FAO sources s
ROME—FAO’s staff selection committee questioned the rigged hiring of the Mayor of Santiago’s nephew, Juan Tohà, to the agency’s Latin American communications job but was overruled, FAO documents sh
ROME– Senior FAO officials convened an “emergency meeting” to discuss fall-out from the disclosure of blatant rigging of the agency’s high-profile Latin American communications job, FAO sources say
ROME – The FAO is cutting 50 more project or short term posts from its Global Resource Management system as Florentin Albu and rogue directors defy orders to redeploy axed staff, UN sources say.
ROME -- The Italian Senate approved the expulsion of Silvio Berlusconi from parliament Wednesday following his conviction and sentence for tax fraud, officials said.
MILAN – Italy at last has agreed to seek a solution to long-running discrimination against foreign lecturers in Italy's universities in what UK Europe Minister David Lidington calls “real progress,
Dear Mr Letta-This month I testify to the European Parliament Petitions Committee and meet UK Europe Minister David Lidington in London.
