ROME–Inter Press Service news agency (IPS) will be privatised and sold to former Argentine former Interior Minister Jose Luis Manzano under plans by former DG Mario Lubetkin, IPS sources say.
ROME – Police charged a Sudanese man Friday with practising an act of “autoeroticism” while travelling on a flight from Doha to Rome, police said.
ROME--Italy’s Defence Minister Roberta Pinotti has suspended payments for F-35 Strike Fighter planes purchases awaiting the results of a parliamentary fact-finding survey.
ROME --Senior “functionaries” of the FAO and IFAD were among clients of the under age prostitution racket used by Alessandra Mussolini’s husband in Rome, police sources said Monday.
ROME—Three FAO executives have denounced Italian Insider to the Italian judiciary for alleged defamation in an evident attempt to prevent coverage of dubious activities at the UN agency.
Dear Mr Phillips, I just would like to draw your attention to two conflicts of interest that the director of information, Mario Lubetkin, poses, to the general indifference of the FAO leadership:
BRUSSELS -A UK MEP has demanded to know why Commissioner Andor wants sanctions on Switzerland over free movement but condones Italy's discrimination of foreign lettori.
ROME– Demoralised Hungarian staff at FAO’s Budapest office feel they are “in a dictatorship” and one woman staffer tried to commit suicide by jumping from the UN agency’s building, FAO sources say.
Rome – Anzio veteran Harry Shindler, 93, received an MBE from the British Ambassador to Italy and declared his struggle for expatriate voting rights will continue.
VATICAN CITY-A year after his resignation shook the world, the Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has strongly denied an Italian report that he was pressured to quit St Peter's
ROME- Syria has long used inertia and stalling to their intended effect, and in the case of handing over its chemical weapons the regime seems to be continuing successfully in the same mold.
ROME– United Nations anti-corruption investigators have opened an inquiry into allegedly blatant job rigging by the “Latin Mafia” at the Food and Agriculture Organisation, UN sources say.
ROME– Italian police have increased security at the Indian Embassy following threats linked to the marines controversy, the Indian Government has confirmed.
ROME– In a rare Middle East success story, the Kurdish Regional Government today carries more diplomatic weight than many members of the UN, its High Representative to Italy, Rezan Kader, says.
ROME– The Sant’Egidio Community has appealed for the resumption of peace negotiations in Colombia amid signs an end to 50 years of bloody internal conflict is near.
ROME -“Our mission is to build leaders at the international level,” says Franco Pavoncello, President of John Cabot University, “We believe in freedom of spirit and exploration for our students.
ROME—As Mario Lubetkin took over FAO’s spin operation, ex IPS colleagues poured scorn on the "hyped" biography the UN agency issued to justify the dlrs 25,000 a month hire of the unctuous Uruguayan
LONDON– Queen Elizabeth II will visit the Eternal City in April for a private meeting with President Napolitano and an audience with Pope Francis, Buckingham Palace announced.
ROME -Yohannes Mengesha, a grandson of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, has joined the constellation of high-paid "special advisors" to FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, FAO sources say
ANZIO –British veterans who fought to free Rome in the Anzio battle made an emotional return to the port town yesterday -“It was terrifying...it was muddy, freezing cold, all you could hear was gun
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ROME – FAO's Brazilian management has offered one axed U.S. executive the poisoned chalice of “exile” in Afghanistan as a wild witch hunt to find a whistleblower in the UN agency continued.
ROME –FAO management issued another burst of job cuts on New Year`s Eve, despite pledges by “DG” Jose Graziano da Silva that his purge of the UN agency was over, FAO sources say.
ROME–Beijing's Academic Dance Company is performing at Genoa's Carlo Felice Theatre, revealing China's stunning dance tradition.
Dear Mr Philips, your allusion to a major fraudule
