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 ROME -- UN World Food Programme's Executive Director, Ertharin Cousin, left Saturday on a 10 day trip to review hunger challenges in four African countries.

ROME--Remittances sent home by migrants, “can empower rural people to blaze a trail out of poverty and exclusion,” Kanayo Nwanze, IFAD'S controversial president, says.

VATICAN CITY– Police arrested a prelate working with the Vatican bank, a spy and a broker on money laundering charges Friday as Italy tightened pressure on the Holy See’s dubious financiers.

ROME– Michael T Clark, a U.S. political scientist embroiled in a UN nepotism scandal, has joined the growing army of advisers to FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva, FAO sources say.

ROME- An American stewardess was arrested at Fiumicino airport after police discovered a gun in her hand luggage that may be linked to recent criminal activity in the capital, police sources say.

VATICAN CITY- One hundred days after Pope Francis assumed the papacy “We Are Church,” a liberal Catholic opposition movement urged the Argentinian pontiff to usher in reforms to decentralize church

  ROME – The FAO Director General, José Graziano da Silva, has broken up an “immoral earnings” ring  involving a number of staff at the UN agency, FAO sources said.

ROME– Turkmenistan, Sao Tome, Niger and Dominican Republic may deserve FAO honours for meeting UN development goals but all are in hefty arrears in paying dues to the UN agency, FAO sources say.

PATTAYA, Thailand -- Anyone meeting the remarkable Juergen (Gio) Lusuardi will not quickly forget, especially when they discover how many benefit from his energy building the Take Care Kids charity

ROME – Two countries that helped enable the wafer-thin majority electing FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva had not paid their dues and were technically ineligible to vote, FAO sources say

ROME–Latin American diplomats and the companion of former Italy prime minister, Lamberto Dini's daughter Paola are among new staff in FAO chief Jose Graziano da Silva's office, FAO sources say.

ROME-Italy must follow the USA and create more private universities to prevent the Italian youth workforce becoming "marginalised," American University of Rome President Richard Hodges says.

ROME-- Recently the Corriere della Sera carried two full pages and an editorial debating whether Britain will leave the EU -For many years this was unthinkable.

 BRUSSELS-Britain will ask the European Council to end Italy's discrimination against UK lecturers in universities if bilateral talks fail, Europe Minister David Lidington told MP Mark Lazarowicz.