BERLIN – FAO director general Qu Dong-Yu during his first term that ended last week “manipulated the UN agency to the advantage of Beijing,” including encouraging the supply in Africa, Asia and O

 ROME – Respected Croatian journalist, academic and author Inoslav Bešker, one of the last surviving reporters to arrive in Italy from the Balkans as a foreign correspondent with a Yugoslav passpor

 ROME – As many as 2,500 people attended an enchanting garden party to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III in the grounds of the Villa Wolkonsky, the leafy residence of the British Ambassa

 ROME – The Chinese Communist Party ordered FAO director general Qu Dongyu to appoint Mario Lubetkin as the head of the UN agency’s latin american division after the Uruguayan Communist party lobbi

 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis undergwent surgery under general anaesthetic for a “painful and worsening” intestinal condition at the Gemelli Polyclinic hospital Wednesday, Vatican sources said.

 ROME — Members of Rome’s Foreign Press Football Club have paid tribute

 ROME – The Bahraini Ambassador to Italy, H.E. Dr Naser M. Y.

 ROME – Italy’s Supreme Court has ordered nine foreign lecturers to repay over 2 million euros in back wages, that were previously awarded to them by lower courts, to the University of Basilicata,

 ROME – Investigations of cases of alleged sexual harassment and other misconduct at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and other UN agencies will never be fair until they are carried out

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis, looking serene and refreshed, resumed his regular schedule of audiences Saturday, meeting intellectuals from Georgetown University attending a conference organised by

 ROME – Alleged complicity between senior managers at the FAO purportedly sexually harassing women employees and members of the agency’s Office of the Inspector General that examines sex harassment

 TBILISI, Georgia – On May 26, 1991, Georgia declared independence, and every year since 1918 the Georgian people joyfully celebrate this day.

 ROME – A senior FAO officer during a coffee break on the FAO panoramic terrace with female colleagues "openly discussed his preferences about women’s physical attributes," investigators at the UN

 VENICE - The Venice councillor for tourism, Simone Venturini, received the British ambassador to Italy, Ed Llewellyn, at Ca' Farsetti who came to Venice to attend the "Venice Coronation Reception"

 ROME – The abrupt withdrawal of two candidates from Iraq and Tajikistan from their official bid to challenge the re-election of the Chinese director general of the FAO, Qu Dongyu,

 VATICAN CITY – Security was tightened around Pope Francis’s tiny city state Friday after a deranged driver Thursday evening crashed a car at high speed through two Swiss Guard and gendaremie check

 ROME – Arman Soldin, 32, was killed on Tuesday whilst reporting from the warzone in eastern Ukraine after being hit by rocket fire near Chasiv Yar, just west of Bakhmut. Soldin had previously been

  ROME -- A new decree law issued by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's cabinet urging universities to pay back wages and pensions to foreign lecturers evidently is a 'half-hearted attempt' to

 ROME – On the occasion of the coronation of King Charles, Dario Pizzetti, who has been the head chef at the British Embassy in Rome for almost 20 years, recalls that the King cannot be without mas

 WARSAW - Italian President Sergio Mattarella was welcomed at the Presidential Palace in the Polish capital by Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda and his wife Agata on his state visit.

 VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis will not attend the traditional Good Friday open air Way of the Cross service and procession at the Colosseum due to cold weather in the Eternal City, the Vatican pres

 ROME – American Academy and Grammy Award nominated actor, Matt Dillon, was enchanted by the new “Stars of San Lorenzo” exhibition at its opening on March 31, reported gallery officials. 

 VATICAN CITY – Walking with a stick, Pope Francis opened the celebration of a solemn Palm Sunday Mass in St Peter’s Square on Sunday, a day after being discharged from hospital where he was treate