VIENNA – Consultants at the International Atomic Energy Agency are incandescent over what they say is the hiring of a Chinese national by the German Director of

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis began a busy Monday of public audiences by saying that he was ill and not able to read his speech but the Vatican chief spokesman sai

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 TEHRAN – An Iranian delegation has embarked on a “transformative study tour in China with FAO support” in a development that is sure to raise Western concern ove

 ROME – As if hiring the IAEA chief’s daughter to a staff job in his cabinet office over the heads of other young consultants were not enough, FAO chief QU Dongyu

 VIENNA – United Nations employees in the Austrian capital have “valid concerns” about suspected nepotism in the appointment of IAEA chief Rafael Grossi’s wife to

 VIENNA – Concern by donor countries over rampant nepotism at the CTBTO has mounted amid speculation that Cinthia Echavarria Grossi, the fun-loving wife of the Ar

 VIENNA -- After FAO consultants raised questions over the meteoric rise of Rafael Grossi's daughter to the office of the Chinese DG of the UN poverty-busting agency, Qu Dongyu, diplomatic sources

 MESSINA, Sicily – The rector of Messina University, Salvatore Cuzzocrea, has announced his resignation over an expenses scandal that erupted when the university’

 ROME – World Food Programme Executive Director Cindy McCain has told employees to brace for swingeing job cuts at the UN agency in the wake of “falling aid budge

 ROME -- The Bangladesh Embassy cricket team won the 2023 Commonwealth Club of Rome cricket tournament and the Roma Cricket Club was the runner-up, organisers said.

 ROME – FAO staffers and consultants have staged a militant sit-in to protest curbs on remote working imposed by the Chinese director general Qu Dongyu under whic

 ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organization will celebrate World Food Day this month in its traditional jamboree drawing diplomats, staff and unctuous Italian p

 ROME – A professor at the Bocconi University sueing Italian Insider’s chief editor and Fatto Quotidiano newspaper for alleged defamation in articles about his alleged links to Calabrian crime gang

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis opened Wednesday a special synod on the future of the Roman Catholic church by urging bishops and lay people from around the world to

 VIENNA -- Argentinian diplomat Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, is ingratiating himself with Beijing, Moscow, the Islam

 ROME -- A year ago Italy's right-wing coalition won the elections, all

 VIENNA -- The Argentinian director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Mariano Grossi, is expected to fire or lay off scores of consultants and long serving staff from next w

 ROME – Consultants at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and people employed on local and short term contracts as “ghost staff” are “vulnerable to exploitation” by the poverty-busting age

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