Embassy Row

 ROME – WFP staff were bewildered this week to receive a memo on urgent “corporate efficiency measures” from chief of staff Meghan ‘chopper’ Latcovich rather than

 ROME – Military exercises by choppers from the American base of Aviano, along the Piave river in northern Italy, are disturbing the local population and wildlife, local officials say.

 Tirana  –  This Monday, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released an 

ROME — Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni disclosed that she is under formal judicial investigation for aiding and abetting a war criminal related to Italy's release and exfiltration from Italy

 ROME – As staff at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) were poised to enjoy a day off work to mark the Chinese New Year this week, observers said Wash

SAN MARINO — San Marino Captains Regents Francesca Civerchia and Dalibor Riccardi certified Mohamed Khelifi as Ambassador of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria to the Republic of San Marin

 ROME - Following the release of Cecilia Sala due to succesful government intervention, the family of Alberto Trentini, an Italian aid-worker who was arrested on unknown charges in Venezuela, have

 ROME - Cecilia Sala, who was imprisoned by Iranian authorities three  weeks ago on unspecified charges has been released and was returning to Italy on Wednesday, according to an 11:30 am announcem

 ROME – At the recently concluded FAO COuncil, the UN agency’s cunning director general, evidently acting on orders from his masters in the Chinese Communist Party, engineered a ‘coup d’etat’ with

 WASHINGTON -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., and Rep. Tracey Mann, R-Kan., led their Republican colleagues in sending a bicameral letter to U.S.

 ROME – FAO donors spearheaded by European Union countries have frozen funds for as many as 200 professional positions at the FAO because of disgruntlement with t

 ROME – The FAO has apparently rehabilitated former FAO soil officer Ronald Vargas who was fired by the UN agency for alleged sexual harassment, collaborating wit

 TBILISI – Hundreds of thousands of Russians, many of them opponents of Vladimir Putin, have flocked to Georgia since the Russian invasion of Ukraine to avoid bei

 GENOA - The city councilor of Genoa, Francesca Ghio, told her story of the abuse she faced at 12 years old.

 ROME -- FAO chief economist Maximo Torero has opened a new chapter in the UN agency’s attempts to silence the Italian Insider by denouncing the newspaper’s chief

 ROME – Three longstanding and respected members of the embattled FAO Evaluation Division have resigned from the UN agency in the past month as the abuse of emplo

  ROME -- It is perhaps a commonplace to describe a book as Proustian.

 ROME – Staff at the World Food Programme may be about to start a “bring back Beasley” movement at the UN agency after the evident Trump U.S.

  LONDON - It is evidently the most ancient form of pasta sciutta that has survived down to the present: Testaroli. The Italian Cultural Institute in London hoste

 ROME – Employees of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) walked off the job for a symbolic one hour strike Wednesday and staged protests outside the be

 ROME – The wife of a senior officer of the FAO Office of Evaluation, a critical oversight unit of the FAO, is a G-4 officer within the FAO Human Resources divisi

 ROME – The World Food Programme Chief of Staff, Ms Meghan Latcovich, a former U.S: Navy helicopter pilot, is raising many eyebrows at the UN agency’s Rome headquarters since she is mainly working

 ROME – Michael Ivy, who has died at age 70, started work at the British Council in Naples as a young teacher in 1980 and didn’t move to Rome from his beloved Nea