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 ROME – Spanish hungercrat Alvaro Lario’s bid to be re-elected as president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for a second term has been thrown into doubt after complain

 ROME - The World Food Program (WFP) has confirmed a massive data breach it suffered last month exposed the sensitive information of 600,000 Gazan households who had signed up to receive food aid,

 ROME - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez did not meet with the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni while on a two-day official visit to Rome this week as a spat deepened over what Italy sees

 ROME - The daughter of Kremlin-linked billionaire Andrey Guryev, founder of Russian fertiliser giant and FAO partner Phosagro, has accused the Antiguan government of corruption over their sale of

 VIENNA – IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi,  a candidate to be the next UN Secretary General, appointed a Chinese former vice minister as a deputy director gen

 ROME - Iran has dismissed a critical UAE-inspired motion at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) council and urged the UN body to help mitigate the impact of the US Israeli attack on the Is

 BRINDISI -- The United Nations, in its quest to sound profound while tightening the belt, has rolled out a masterpiece of bureaucratic theatre -- the UN80 Initia

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 BUDAPEST  - As Peter Magyar steps into his role as Hungary's incoming Prime Minister, the first critical test of how far he willing to break from the illiberal;

 ROME - Following fierce public backlash from the local community, North Yorkshire Council has rejected plans by FAO partner Danone to expand a water bottling plant by clearing an area of community

 ROME --  Fun-loving FAO Evaluation Division Director Clemencia Cosentino enjoyed four separate trips to regional offices of the UN agency around the world recent

 ROME – Iran urged Italy Saturday to encourage the United States to respect the principles of international law and desist from ”bellicose behaviour” and said Tehran is “ready to play a positive ro

 ROME -- Corruption involving misuse of millions of dollars of donor funds, abuse of authority, racism and favouritism are becoming everyday practices in the trou

  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti --The end of the “personal kingdom” of the WFP Haiti country director Wanja Kaaria and her sidekick Helen Kamau is in sight after Wanja wa

 ROME - A Ukrainian drone strike hit the Apatit chemical plant in Russia’s Vologda region, setting fire to the facility, Ukrainian media said Tuesday. 

 ROME -- The alleged French lover of FAO Deputy Director General Godfrey Magwenzi was transferred out of the team of the FAO Independent Chair of Council after he suspected that she was spying on t

 ROME - Spain and Turkey have announced they will contest the 2027 FAO leadership election, joining Italy and Ireland in putting forward candidates to lead the UN agency. 

 BRINDISI – The election of Imed Zabaar as the new president of the international civil servants’ labor union federation FICSA has raised new questions about the

 ROME – The Irish government has nominated the burley former EU commissioner Phil Hogan to run as Ireland’s candidate in the contest to choose the next Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) direc