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ROME—As Mario Lubetkin took over FAO’s spin operation, ex IPS colleagues poured scorn on the "hyped" biography the UN agency issued to justify the dlrs 25,000 a month hire of the unctuous Uruguayan

ROME – As Mario Lubetkin took over as FAO communications supremo, IPS association members accuse him of leaving the news agency and its tv project “in ruins.”

ROME -Yohannes Mengesha, a grandson of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, has joined the constellation of high-paid "special advisors" to FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, FAO sources say

ROME--The FAO professional association head, Wolfgang Prante, sought compensation of dlrs 50,000 from the agency for sending a slur against him by email to thousands of staff, FAO sources have clai

ROME –FAO management issued another burst of job cuts on New Year`s Eve, despite pledges by “DG” Jose Graziano da Silva that his purge of the UN agency was over, FAO sources say.

ROME–Inter Press Service’s quest for a new “director general” succeeding Mario Lubetkin at the radical organ raises questions over autocratic management under failed politician Giovanni Spinelli, m

ROME–FAO chief medical officer Cedric Dumont has been reprimanded for offering potentially suicidal staff at the UN agency a course on “managing stress in a changing workplace,” FAO sources say.

ROME–FAO has hired Brazil`s controversial former agrarian reform guru Rolf Hackbart to head the UN agency`s partnership division in  yet another nepotistic top appointment, FAO sources say.

ROME--IPS executives strongly deny their director general has become rich from heading the news agency but have stopped short of explaining his luxurious lifestyle, according to IPS insiders.

ROME–FAO watchers have urged a review of procedures used to appoint Mario Lubetkin as Communications chief at the UN agency, the latest in a series of unorthodox hirings in the FAO's media division

ROME – World Bank flak Sergio Jellinek has been chosen to head the troubled IPS agency in Rome amid speculation IPSTV will be refinanced by Argentinian entrepreneur Jose Luis Manzano, media sources

ROME – As IPS agency chief Mario Lubetkin prepares to head FAO’s byzantine communications division, Italy has pledged dlrs 250,000 to the UN agency  to commission articles from IPS about Expo Milan

ROME–Two women development experts discarded in a rigged FAO job appointment for Latin American Communications officer are considering appealing against their rejection in favour of Juan Jose Toha,

ROME–FAO has signed Mario Lubetkin, head of IPS news agency, as its Communications chief, climaxing the unusual rapport between the UN agency and the Italian-funded news agency, FAO sources say.

ROME – An Asian clan bid to increase influence at FAO failed after a Japanese rival became Evaluation Director but the subcontinent "mafia" catapulted a female companion to promotion, FAO sources s

ROME—FAO’s staff selection committee questioned the rigged hiring of the Mayor of Santiago’s nephew, Juan Tohà, to the agency’s Latin American communications job but was overruled, FAO documents sh