VATICAN CITY -- The ex-Metropolitan Archbishop of Krakow, Stanislaw Dziwisz, has retired from his position for reasons of age, as Pope Francis app

ROME – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, battling to retain diplomatic immunity after the end of his mandate, has proposed uniting the three Rome-based UN Food agencies including WFP and

 ROME -- The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Director General José Graziano da Silva said that the UN agency will support the land reforms at the heart

ROME – The first steps towards reconciliation following the long crisis between Misrata and Zintan were made this week as representatives from the

 ROME  – Is the demise of Renzi really a local affair?

 ROME -- The Egyptian public prosecutor Nabil Ahmed Sadek told the parents of the murdered university researcher Giulio Regeni, that the case will not be closed until justice is brought about, in a

 ROME -- The interrogation of ex-Peruvian first lady Nadine Heredia, appointed head of the FAO’s liaison office, into her alleged abuse of office has been set back by a week, Peruvian newspaper El

 ROME -- The first government and business trade mission in Pakistan began Monday and will be underway until Wednesday, with the aim of deepening investment and collaboration opportunities between

 ROME -- Private investment banks have postponed the recapitalisation of Italy’s oldest bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena, while the Italian Treasury stands ready to approve a state recapitalisation,

 LECCO -- Having disappeared two years ago, abandoning her husband and two young daughters, Valbona Berisha, now 34, fled from Italy with her son t

 STOCKHOLM -- Realism and abstraction seem to be two categories, generally applied to the arts, irreconcilable or opposite and yet, at least in the photography, s

 ROME – Venezuelan protestors chained themselves at the front of the Vatican Sunday in a public plea for the release of political prisoners.

ROME – The euro plunged to a 20-month low, slipping 1.3 percent to 1.0524 dollars as of 12:25am, following the result of the Italian referendum whi

 LIMA --  FAO supremo is taking the micky out of Peru with his weasel-worded s

 ROME -- Italians in Australia will be involved in a heated Referendum debate in Italy on constitutional reform.  Their votes on Sunday, along with

 ROME -- Former Peruvian first lady Nadine Heredia, appointed as head of the FAO's liaison office, initially sent an application for a higher post at the organization's Office of Institutional Comm

 LIMA -- Peruvian former first lady Nadine Heredia has arrived back Thursday in the capital of her native country, called back from Europe by Judge Richard Concepción Carhuancho for legal matters l

 LIMA -- Peru’s foreign ministry denied that this South American country wanted to protest against José Graziano da Silva’s director general position in the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),

 ROME -- The second edition of MED -- Mediterranean Dialogues -- will open Thursday at 1:30 p.m., promoted by the Foreign Affairs Ministry, with over 40 head of state, ministers and leaders of inte

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 ROME — At least six Organisation of American State countries, spearheaded by Peru, are considering tabling a no confidence vote in FAO director general Jose Graziano da