ROME -- FAO Evaluation Division chief Clemencia Cosentino has bewildered staff by flouting the rule against directors of the UN agency teleworking from home, regulalrly vanishing from the office on Fridays and Mondays to the consternation of her employees, FAO souces say.
JAN FILIPOWICZ
ROME -- African top poverty-buster Godfrey 'crocburger' Magwenzi has climaxed his elevation to being the No. 2 man at the Food and Agricultural Organization by telling staff "I am a devoted Christian" and promoting his statuesque Russian-speaking female lover to a P-5 sinecure worth nearly half a million dollars a year in the rudderless UN agency, FAO sources say
23 Mar 2025
John Phillips
ROME -- Pope Francis blessed well-wishers from his window at the Gemelli hospital Sunday, making his first public appearance since he was admitted five weeks ago for treatment for double pneumonia and set off fears that he was at death's door. Smiling and speaking somewhat breathlessly, the 88-year-old pontiff waved and gave the thumbs up sign from his wheelchair on the balcony window before returning to the Vatican where he is due to spend two months convalescing.
23 Mar 2025
Ophelia Gregory
ROME – The Superenalotto which has a Jackpot of 88,232,801.88 million euros has just been won in Rome.
21 Mar 2025
INSIDER NEWSDESK
ROME -- The American Academy in Rome, a dynamic international institution supporting artists and scholars with the space to learn, create, and work toward interdisciplinary breakthroughs, presents the first exhibition dedicated to the influence of a group of trailblazing women who helped record archaeology and landscapes from new vantage points.
21 Mar 2025
INSIDER NEWSDESK
ROME – The Italian Insider wishes to state that Mr Osama Owaneh, of Amman, Jordan, has never had any contact with the Italian Insider or any of its journalists and has never been a source of information directly or indirectly for any of our articles about the UN agencies in the Middle East including the Food and Agriculture Organization.
20 Mar 2025
Ophelia Gregory
ROME – As tensions been Ukraine and Russia soar following Trump’s scepticism of Zelensky’s cause, the EU have proposed plans to rearm themselves, which Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of Lega, Matteo Salvini has opposed.
20 Mar 2025
Ophelia Gregory
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis continues to get better as it is announced that he no longer requires the use of a mechanical ventilation device to breathe at night in latest medical bulletin released by the Vatican press office.
20 Mar 2025
Ophelia Gregory
ROME – The search for bodies has continued Thursday after a storm the day prior led to the shipwreck of a migrant boat off the coast of Lampedusa, which so far has 10 survivors and has left over 40 missing.
‘They fell in one after the other. We were not able to save any of them because the boat was filling with water,’ said the survivors of this latest Shipwreck in the Sicilian channel. The boat had come from Sfax in Tunisia and was wrecked just a few hundred metres from the island of Lampione.
20 Mar 2025