ROME -- Two British citizens, living abroad and fighting for the right to vote in the EU Referendum, have been given the right to take their case to the Court of Appeal.  This permission came from

ROME – A day after Italy celebrated World Press Freedom day, the trial of Italian Insider’s chief editor resumed Wednesday on libel charges brought by five FAO executives at the Rome-based UN agenc

 ROME -- Finnish Minister of Foreign Affairs Timo Soini, accompanied by the Finnish Ambassador in Italy, Janne Taalas, has visited the Operational Headquarters of EUNAVFOR MED operation Sophia, The

ROME – As FAO’s press office trumpeted José Graziano da Silva’s glorious receipt of an Italian ‘knightship,’ the UN agency director general in a major speech on Africa airbrushed out his links on t

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis will make a pastoral visit to Armenia June 24-26 and then return to the Caucasus region Sept.30-Oct.23 for a trip to Georgia and Azerbaijan, the Vatican said Saturday.

ROME – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva may offer former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a bolthole as a “special advisor” to the UN agency to give Lula immunity from prose

 ROME -- The Polish ambassador to Italy Tomasz Orlowski welcomed diplomats, politicians, representatives for the Jewish world, and a group of students to celebrate a little known event that brought

 ISTANBUL – Turkey must negotiate with the Kurdish PKK guerrilla organization and “correct its mistakes” in Syria, former Turkish foreign min

 ROME - Tributes have flowed in following the death, at the age of 69, of Jim Innes, a hugely respected media guru, a frequent visitor to Italy and pro bono adviser to his lifelong friend, David Pe

ROME – The FAO has been ordered to pay an Egyptian agronomist dlrs 200,000 in compensation for harassment he underwent from bosses at the UN agency after he refused to pay bribes to a Saudi Arabian

ROME -- Theatre without borders – a ceremonious show that served as a cultural exchange between famous Japanese and Sicilian puppets.

ROME - Donors to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) may ask the UN agency to review its ties to the Lula Institute folllowing the request for the arrest of former Brazilian President Lu

 Rome -- Reports that the United States’ electronic spy agency beamed 

ROME – As many as 30 low-paid staff at the FAO's Shared Service Centre in Budapest have decamped to the UNICEF office in the Hungarian capital to enjoy higher pay and opportunities despite the UN a

 ROME -- “To celebrate the 150^th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Italy and Japan we have organised several events over the following days: we are particularly happy to welcom

ROME – Professional staffers at the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) are increasingly frustrated over the unctuous new leadership of their AP-in-FAO staff association with its moustachioed p

 ROME -- Slow Food and many other civil society organisations protested Monday over an international symposium being held this week at

 Ronald Singleton, the Daily Mail’s former correspondent in Rome who has died aged 92, lived an extraordinary adventure, much of it ma

 ROME -- There is to be a change of Her Majesty’s Ambassador to the Holy See, with Mrs Sally Axworthy MBE to take up her appointment during Augu