LA VALLETTA -- An aircraft, designed for tourist flights, crashed and exploded Monday morning a little after take-off at 5.30 a.m.
ROME – UNESCO is supporting only Palestinian interests regarding Muslim holy places in Jerusalem and di
MILAN – The Chinese community reportedly are up in arms about the honorary Milanese citizenship of the Dalai Lama, labelling it as an “error” ahea
SAN MARINO CITY -- The Kuwaiti Ambassador to Italy and to San Marino, HE Sheikh Ali Khaled Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, took part in the turning of t
VATICAN CITY -- The papal emissary to Syria has been named as one of a group of new cardinals announced on Sunday by Pope Francis, including 13 who are eligible to succeed him.
ROME — World Food Programme executive director Ertharin Cousin is expected to backpedal on implementation of new UN rules allowing staff to postpone retirement up to age
ROME — Britain will continue to seek an early resolution to the problem of UK lecturers in Italy who constantly are forced to go to court for payment of arrears on wages
ROME -- Indian diplomat Vimlendra Sharan has been offered the job of heading the FAO’s Washington liason office, meaning that the post would be held for the first time in recent memory by someone f
ROME — The United States has become the country with the greatest under-representation of professional staff members at the FAO despite being the biggest contributor to
ROME — British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has urged Italy to allocate compensation in the next Stability law budget for discriminated UK lecturers (lettori) working
ROME – The U.S. Congress is stepping up pressure on the Obama administration to remedy the erosion of U.S.
Melbourne — Australian Macedonians are gearing up to celebrate 25 years of independence of the Republic of Macedonia from Yugoslav
ROME -- Fifty NGOs working in Venezuela have appealed to the Food and Agriculture Organisation and other U.N.
Dear Sir, Thanks for following and informing on inconsistencies related to management of human resources in FAO. While in many cases the mobility policy is strengthening FAO´s capacities in decentr
ROME — Troubled digital newspaper 'The Local' has laid off its entire reporting staff of journalists in Italy, claiming the draco
TRIPOLI, Libya -- Zintani forces have announced the capture of a man thought to be a jihadist recruiter in Italy, the Libya Her
ROME — Two attachés reported to have been involved in the Turkish
ROME -- “What, a plan B from the EU to take all the mi
ROME — The first version of the hallowed FAO 70th year book was among the documents that had to be destroyed and re-written from scratch due to the poor language skills
ROME — Britain’s newly-appointed ambassador to Italy, Jill Morris, has told the Italian government that the Foreign Office will seek to persuade Cambridge University to
ROME -- Palazzo Chigi's official photographer was too quick for FAO honcho Mario Lubetkin (right) in this snap of those participating at a meeting between a suntanned Italian Prime Minister Matteo
ROME — The Italian Parliament shortly will be considering one of many government requests to buy more weapons from the Ministry of Defence or state-controlled defence companies such as FInmeccanica
ROME – The quality of FAO documents and publications has plunged in recent months, becoming frequently unreadable gibberish as increasing numbers of poorly qualified Spanish staff are hired to the
