ROME – Matteo Renzo is fighting to restore Italy’s special rapport with Ankara but remains outmanouvred by French President Francois Hollande’s wily diplomacy,
ROME - An original and crowded celebration of the Finnish national day took place at the Ambassador's residence in the Eternal City Saturday.
ROME - Kuwaiti Parliament Speaker Marzouk Al-Ghanim and Ambassador Sheikh Ali Al-Khaled Al-Jaber Al-Sabah opened Kuwait’s dazzling Roma Verso Expo exhibit at Leonardo da Vinci Airport this week.
ROME – Dr Sarah Al Rakayan outlined Kuwait’s plans to combat an ever-changing food culture at a panel at FAO’s international conference on nutrition this week.
VATICAN CITY – Liverpudlian Archbishop Paul Gallagher has been appointed as the new head of foreign affairs in a re-shuffle at the top of the Catholic Church.
VATICAN CITY –Emma Madigan has taken up the post of Irish ambassador to the Holy See, after the permanent position was cut for budget reasons in 2011.
ROME – Silence fell at the eleventh hour in the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Testaccio, as veterans and embassy representatives gathered to mark Remembrance Day.
ROME – FAO Latin America Chief Forestry officer Jorge Meza evidently has disregarded the director general’s ban on croneyism, adjudicating a long term consultancy to girlfriend Maria Mercedes Proañ
ROME - Finnish president Sauli Niinistö has concluded a two-day working visit to Italy, at the invitation of Giorgio Napolitano, the President of Italy.
ROME – The Dutch Ambassador to the FAO, Gerda Verburg, is considering running as a candidate for election as Director General of the UN agency, diplomatic sources said Thursday.
ROME- The Turkish Ambassador to Italy, H.E. Aydin A.Sezgin, played host to hundreds of guests at a glittering reception to mark Turkey’s national Day.
ROME -The FAO is laying off 111 of its staff in Somalia and Kenya, raising concern about the agency's capacity to deal with a future famine, FAO sources say
ROME –The FAO will follow “precautional measures recommended by Italian authorities” against Ebola when thousands of delegates arrive for an international nutrition conference, the UN agency says.
ROME --A World Food Programme (WFP) staff member tested negative for Ebola at a Rome hospital Wednesday having felt unwell after returning from Guinea, WFP said.
ROME -An FAO Conference on nutrition at the agency next month has raised concern of possible contagion from delegates from Ebola hit countries among thousands arriving in Italy, FAO sources say.
ROME – A senior executive in FAO corporate communications boasted that female colleagues he seduced were “obsessed” with him and “devastated” when he dropped them, FAO sources said.
ROME– Kuwait's Emir, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Jaber, will continue to work for peace after the UN named him a “world humanitarian leader,” the Kuwaiti Ambassador to Italy said Friday.
1, The UK was never really united -the 1707 Unification of Parliaments was against the wishes of 98 percent of the Scottish population.
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis gave a private audience Monday to Turkish Ambassador to the Holy See Kenan Gursoy and confirmed he hopes to travel to Turkey soon, diplomatic sources said.
ROME – At the Turkish Embassy Esin Zeynep Selvi has been appointed as the new head of the Office of Culture.
ROME – “Remember if something happens to me I want you to see to my burial in Port Stanley,” Mike Sposito told a friend last year, adding: “liver to be buried separately with full military honours.
ROME – FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva insisted the UN agency buy him a brand new Mercedes despite at least seven other limousines being in the car pool for him to use, FAO sources said
Rome—Italy’s debate over what to do about the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been overshadowed by a furious row over the ill-judged comments of Alessandro Di Battista, an MP
