Embassy Row

 ROME -- The FAO Director General, José Graziano da Silva, reportedly has applied for Italian citizenship but the Italian authorities evidently are dragging their feet over the request, perhaps bec

ROME - The ex trophy, second wife of the former prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, Veronica Lario, has been ordered to repay 60 million euros to media mogul whose net worth is estimated at 4.1 bill

 ROME - Previously undisclosed documents on Giulio Regeni, the University of Cambridge student murdered in Cairo last year, have been seen by La Repubblica, and will air in a documentary

  ROME --The Commonwealth Club of Rome celebrated its 70th anniversary Friday with speeches and a luncheon at the Villa Wolkonsky, the British Ambassador’s residence in Rome, spearheaded

ROME – The Food and Agriculture Organisation, in an evident, costly move to provide support for the growing flock of rooky Latin American staff members hired by Director General José Graziano da Si

 ROME – The FAO plans to close shops and commercial banks in its building evidently to prepare for hosting a UN secretariat to coordinate the work of  UN agencies in the Eternal City and provide a

ROME - Shaking off the dust of almost 40 years, the Rome Ashes revived in the wide green open fields of Capannelle cricket ground on Saturday afternoon.

ROME – Will IFAD President Gilbert Houngbo be able to resist the charms of the UN agency’s veteran American spin doctor Cassandra Waldon?

 ROME- The other day, the glamorous Maltese Ambassador to Italy Vanessa Frazier was criticised online by commentators because of her choice of handbag.

 ROME- The new French ambassador arrived Wednesday in the Italian capital.

ROME- The British Embassy spokesperson Pierluigi Puglia has spoken out against an article from the Italian newspaper, Il Foglio, suggesting that “Brexit can only be hard for the UK”.

ROME – Peruvian former cab driver Fernando Servan’s appointment as top Human Resources honcho at the FAO has made the UN agency seem like a Latin American junta more than ever with senior executive

 ROME -- The parents of Cambridge student Giulio Regeni, widely suspected to have been murdered by Egyptian security forces, said they are outraged after Italy, citing 'developments' in cooperation

 ROME – The FAO introduced draconian new employment terms for consultants this week, stating that consultancies won’t be renewed if less than six months in duratio

ROME – The United States has told the Food and Agriculture Organisation it will slash its funding of the UN agency by some 20 percent, or some dlrs 32 million, FAO sources say.

ROME — The arrest of Nadine Heredia on corruption charges has underlined the imprudence of FAO supremo José Graziano da Silva’s decision to hire the former Peruvian firs

ROME — Despite the summer heat the FAO’s Latin American clique continues to consolidate its grip on top jobs at the UN agency.

VATICAN CITY- The monsignor who was arrested by the Vatican Gendarmerie following a raid on an apartment in the Palazzo dell’ex Sant’Uffizio, in which a soirée fuelled by drugs and homosexual activ

BRENNER - Austria deployed Tuesday four armoured APC vehicles on the Brenner border between Italy and Austria to underline its opposition to Italian authorities allowing migrants to entering Austri