ALESSANO – Zambian Chargé d’Affaires Silumelume Mubukwane attended a solemn ceremony in this Apulian town twinning it with the Zambian town of Chavuma.

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis smiled broadly and cracked a joke when he appeared in a wheelchair in public for the first time Thursday due to a knee problem that h

 ROME – European donor countries eligible to elect the next president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) plan to field a woman candidat

 SARAJEVO – Italian artist Luigi Ballarin is in the Bosnian capital for the first time with the "Magnificent Architectures" exhibition.

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis, celebrating Easter Sunday in St Peter's Square, said that the world needs Christ more than ever amidst the "cruel and senseless" wa

 ROME – Amir Abdulla, the World Food Programme deputy executive director and reputed head of the ‘old guard’ at the UN agency, will retire from the organization in June, it has been announced, clim

 ROME – ILO director general elect Gilbert Houngbo is working out his notice as IFAD president by trying to pave the way for a successor from his region while attracting raised eyebrows from diplom

  VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis celebrated Palm Sunday by denouncing the "folly of war" and calling for an Easter truce in Ukraine as a prelude to peace even if it

 ROME -- The FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has 'sent to coventry' the head of the UN agency's troubled human resources department amid staff discontent with stif

  When Joe Biden accused Vladimir Putin of being a war criminal, it may have seemed like a statement of the blindingly obvious.

ROME – Western diplomats to the FAO have been considering if Russia could be expelled from the UN food agencies for its rape of Ukraine though they are hardly encouraged by fruitless efforts in the

 ROME -- The European Union's anti-fraud unit, OLAF, has concluded its investigation into possible conflict of interest and nepotism by former FAO assistant director general, Roberto Ridolfi, and h

 ROME -- The U.N.

 ROME –The Italian Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Italian Insider’s editor-in-chief John Phillips against his conviction and sentence on charge

 ROME -- Veteran Italian television presenter and science journalist Piero Angela has been honoured by Algeria for his work in his youth as a RAI correspondent co

 ROME – The 32 people who work in the bar and canteen at the headquarters of the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) have had their employment suspended indefinitely while the UN age

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis issued another passionate appeal Sunday f

 NEW YORK -- United Nations staff unions "deeply worried" about the UN pension fund are urging the Secretary General, Antonio Guterres,  to drop the outsourcing h

 ROME -- As FAO Director General Qu Dongyu has started campaigning for re-election next year, a circle of Western ambassadors have been meeting to discuss if ther

 ROME -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has stopped short of calling Russia's war in Ukraine an invasion or war, referring to the conflict as only