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 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

 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

 VIENNA – "Disgusting'' United Nations officials currying favour with China have prohibited a young violinist from performing in a concert at the UNO City in the

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

 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

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 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

 ROME -- Thousands of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) who devoted their lives to the UN agency are being denied robotic surgery and subject to lengthy delays for vital operations by health

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 ROME -- There is a perception today that international law is useless, argued a prominent Italian legal scholar and professor of international law in a presentat

 ROME -- Consultants at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) are forming a trade union to combat worsening conditions at the Chinese-run agency where young people can wait decades for min

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 ROME – The rigged FAO appointment of a Chinese national to a senior legal officer position that had been earmarked for a respected Spanish woman lawyer for years

 PYLOS – Serious concerns have been raised by the survivors of the sunken fishing Adriana vessel in Greece.

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 VENICE - - UNESCO has implored “Put Venice on the list of heritages at risk” as climate change and mass tourism threaten it.

 ROME - - Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), such as Food Systems 4 People, have condemned the United Nations Food Systems Summit which is taking place from Monday to Wednesday. 

  ROME – A year after his election as the president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, Spanish finance geek Alvaro Lario still is punching below his weight and over dependent,