ROME—As the United Nations announces the cost of their humanitarian mission in Syria reaching costs of US$4.4 billion, the World Food Programme has distributed urgent aid to refugee families across Syria in areas where some of the heaviest fighting has taken place in recent weeks.
ROME–The FAO is paying tribute to Cuba, Nicaragua and 14 other nations who halved their hungry populations but despite the progress donors worry about increased bureaucracy at the UN agency, senior
ROME – Saad Alotaibi, considered a Saudi Royal family unofficial emissary at the FAO, has left his job as Assistant Director General for the mideast following the murky death of a Japanese staffer
ROME–FAO Director General José Graziano da Silva wants a sharp spending increase in the 2014-2015 budget -- the agency denies the hike is intended to facilitate his re-election.
VENICE-A cocktail at Ca’ Giustinian, dinner with Massimiliano Gioni and Cecilia Alemani and riding a vaporetto with Luigi Ontani were highlights of the 55thVenice Biennale preview.
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.
ROME—Loro Piana, a luxury goods company based in Italy, has secured a significant share in Sanin SA, an Argentinian organisation which possesses the right to carry out the safe and controlled shearing of wild vicunas, a highly lucrative breed for poachers in South America.
ROME–Prime Minister Enrico Letta faces mounting pressure over discrimination against UK lecturers working in Italian universities with a question tabled in the House of Commons on the pay cuts.
ROME--As a young reporter in Lebanon, Richard Beeston faced down an execution squad and at one point found himself given honorary command of a company of Muslim militiamen.
KABUL – Border disputes with Pakistan and Iranian meddling in the country’s internal affairs have recently shifted the focus of Afghans' criticism closer to home.
ROME-- The community of Sant'Egidio in Rome has sent its sincere condolences to Christians in Northern Tanzania after an attack on Sunday against the New Catholic
ROME -- Harry Shindler, the leader of British war veterans in Italy, has failed to overturn the ban on expatriates voting in UK elections once they have lived abroad for more than 15 years.
LONDON – Italy’s continuing “illegal” discrimination against British lecturers working in Italian universities is “wholly unacceptable” the UK Foreign Office says.
ROME - Prime Minister delegate Enrico Letta conferred with President Napolitano Saturday over his cabinet as horsetrading between the Democratic Party and Freedom Alliance over key jobs continued.
ROME-- Holding elections in Mali in July "is going to be difficult", given the large number of displaced people and the adverse climate conditions, but "we have to organize what has become a fragmented society", UN special envoy for the Sahel, Romano Prodi, told Foreign Affairs Committee MEPs on Monday 8th.
