ROME -- The U.S.

 NAPLES – The United States aircraft carrier George H.W.

  Christopher Matthews, who has died at age 79, was a Russian-born, bohemian godson of Graham Greene with a larger than

ROME – The UN Agencies cricket team won the Queen’s Championship Cup, beating the Commonwealth Club in the 2022 final, organisers said. 

 ROME – Prosecutors have requested the indictment of two World Food Programme employees accused of manslaughter for their alleged role in the death of the Italian Ambassador and his Carabiniere gua

 ROME – The prison at Santa Maria Capua Vetere, north of Naples, is denying their prisoners clean water, heating,

 SHARM EL SHEIKH – PM Meloni raised the issue of respect for human rights during the Cop27 conference but has not focused more on the cases of Giulio Regeni and Patrick Zaki.

 ROME – As world leaders gather at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is calling on the international community to invest in building t

ROME – Pope Franics speaks on a possibility for peace in Ukraine while an announcement is made that Ukrainian military forces have received surface-to-air missile systems from the United States.

 ROME – A local Veneto prison recently refused help from outside sources to help a severely ill prisoner, worldwide INGO reported.

 ROME – As FAO Director General Qu Dongyu prepares for probable re-election to a second term, diplomats from member states have been trying to make sense of a ram

 ROME -- The World Food Programme has denied that there was a conflict of interest in the Boston Consulting Group's pro bono partnership with the UN agency involv

 COLOMBO – An estimated 6.3 million people in Sri Lanka are facing moderate to severe acute food insecurity and their situation is expected to worsen if adequate life-saving assistance and liveliho

 ROME – Juan José Coy Giron, a former General Secretary of the Association of Prefessional Staff of FAO, has won a symbolic court case against the FAO in which closure of the UN agency's luxurious

 NAIROBI – The UN World Food Programme (WFP) is expanding assistance in the Horn of Africa as levels of hunger soar after back-to-back droughts and the threat of famine looms.

 ISTANBUL - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the appointing of Amir Mahmoud Abdulla from Sudan as the world body’s coordinator for the Black Sea Grain Initiative on Friday, said a st

SEOUL - Son Heung-Min, a prominent English Premier League football player for Tottenham Hotspur, who scored 23 goals in the 2021/22 season, making him one of the top scorers of the season and earni

  ROME – The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has undergone “corporate capture” by accepting under its Chinese director general, Qu Dongyu, large scale funding from multinationals from th

PORT-AU-PRINCE – In Haiti, where almost half the population is already food insecure, hunger is set to rise amidst increasing inflation, high costs of food and fuel and deteriorating security, warn

 ROME -- The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has appointed its Spanish top finance executive, Alvaro Lario, to be its next president, choosing a champion of private sector in

ROME- The number of people affected by hunger globally rose to as many as 828 million in 2021, an increase of about 46 million since 2020 and 150 million since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic

 ROME - The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Ambassadors to Italy, led by Mr.