ROME--In his customary bowler hat and impeccable dark suit, Tom Huggan was often taken by Italian journalists for Britain's Ambassador at military ceremonies.
ROME– FAO employees held an extraordinary assembly Wednesday to discuss industrial action in protest at Director General Jose Graziano da Silva’s “shocking” decision to revoke a key labour contract
ROME-Staff cuts by FAO hatchet man Denis Aitken may cost the UN millions in legal compensation and replacing the Performance Evaluation system also will jack up costs at the agency, UN sources say.
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ROME--UK Ambassador Christopher Prentice has given Antonio Millozzi an Honorary MBE from the Queen for his work at Monte San Martino Trust.
HELSINKI -- "The Italian media at a crossroads: evolution or agony" was the theme of a lecture in English in Helsinki, Finland, delivered by correspondent for about 25 years in the foreign press fr
ROME– As the West determines how to punish Syria for using chemical weapons, Syria’s Ambassador to Italy is still on Italian soil despite U.S. protests, diplomatic sources say.
ROME–FAO Chief José Graziano da Silva is “forcing staff to starve” through job cuts contravening the hunger-fighting agency's mission, it is claimed.
ROME – FAO management is reneging on pledges to redeploy staff whose positions are being abolished, telling them are no funds available to keep them in the troubled UN agency, sources say.
ROME– UN Food and Agriculture Organisation staff face swingeing job cuts by year end as Director General José Graziano da Silva slashes dlrs 37 million from the famine-fighting agency’s budget, FAO
ROME -- A bionic former Mailman may receive a "conduct card" from the foreign press circle in the Eternal City for evidently poaching on the turf of a respected female colleague, club sources say.
ROME -- According to a recent release from the White House, John R. Phillips will be the next US ambassador in Italy.
ROME– Michael T Clark, a U.S. political scientist embroiled in a UN nepotism scandal, has joined the growing army of advisers to FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, FAO sources say.
ROME– Turkmenistan, Sao Tome, Niger and Dominican Republic may deserve FAO honours for meeting UN development goals but all are in hefty arrears in paying dues to the UN agency, FAO sources say.
ROME– FAO chief José Graziano da Silva publicly dismissed work by senior colleagues as “huevadas” (bullshit) while working as head of the UN agency’s Latin American operation, FAO sources disclosed
ROME– Staff at the Food and Agriculture Organisation may stage a walk-out at this month’s conference of the UN agency to protest discrimination against staff association leaders, agency sources say
ROME–Latin American diplomats and the companion of former Italy prime minister, Lamberto Dini's daughter Paola are among new staff in FAO chief Jose Graziano da Silva's office, FAO sources say.
ROME–The FAO is paying tribute to Cuba, Nicaragua and 14 other nations who halved their hungry populations but despite the progress donors worry about increased bureaucracy at the UN agency, senior
ROME – Saad Alotaibi, considered a Saudi Royal family unofficial emissary at the FAO, has left his job as Assistant Director General for the mideast following the murky death of a Japanese staffer
ROME–FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva wants a sharp spending increase in the 2014-2015 budget -- the agency denies the hike is intended to facilitate his re-election.
BRUSSELS-Britain will ask the European Council to end Italy's discrimination against UK lecturers in universities if bilateral talks fail, Europe Minister David Lidington told MP Mark Lazarowicz.
