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 SAINT MALO-My expat friend would not stop talking about her place in this walled port city, in northwestern France.

 ROME – IFAD’s top female povertybusters Carola Alvarez and Constanza Di Nucci are dressing and behaving “as if they were characters in the Devil wears Prada,” flaunting luxury designer brands with

 ROME – IFAD’s doughty staff association has called for “clear, meaningful consequences” for top managers who abuse their authority but the UN agency’s embattled president Alvaro Lario still has st

 ROME – American President Donald Trump launched another attack Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on social media ahead of a NATO meeting in Ankara later this week, saying that he needs a “rest

 ROME - The World Bank has abandoned a key climate target amid an intense pressure campaign from the US, according to official sources, as external observers accuse bank president Ajay Banga of sac

Rome – The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) has consecrated four new bishops in defiance of Pope Leo XIV, prompting what Vatican officials describe as a schismatic act that carries automatic excommun

 ROME – IFAD Managing Director Carola Alvarez told staff this week she is leaving the UN agency in  a surprise move following revelations in the Italian Insider t

 WASHINGTON – Tony Kalm, who has died at age 58, led a constellation of anti-poverty initiatives including overseeing the One Acre Fund that helped millions  of smallholder farmers improve their li

Rome – An acclaimed travelling exhibition showcasing the experiences of life in Gaza through art has arrived in Rome for the final stop of its European tour.

 ROME – The IFAD staff association Wednesday pledged to defend whistleblowers at the UN agency after Argentine American managing director Carola Alvarez threatene

Rome — The evolving nature of identity across the Middle East took centre stage at a conference organised by the Euro-Gulf Information Centre (EGIC) on June 18, where academics and experts examined

Rome – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has sharply rebuked United States President Donald Trump after he claimed she had “begged” him to take a photograph with her during this week's G7 summi

 ROME -- Less than an hour’s flight from Rome, on the opposite shore of the Adriatic, a popular movement is unfolding that should concern Europe as a whole.

Rome — Cardinal Camillo Ruini, one of the most influential figures in the Italian Catholic Church over the past three decades, has died in Rome at the age of 95.

 ROME – IFAD’s embattled Managing Director, Carola Alvarez, called an urgent staff meeting of her Office of Development Effectiveness at the UN agency Tuesday to

 KULTARANTA, Finland -- To those unfamiliar with the Nordic diplomatic calendar, the 'Kultaranta Talks'might sound like an elegant summer gathering.

 NAGO-TORBOLE, Italy — A U.S. Army Ranger veteran travelled this week to northern Italy to stand at the site where Brig. Gen. William O. Darby, founder of the modern U.S.

 ROME – Spanish hungercrat Alvaro Lario’s bid to be re-elected as president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) for a second term has been thrown into doubt after complain

 ROME – Italian Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli, condemned Russian drone attacks on Kyiv on Sunday night and Monday morning which set the 11^th Century Dormition Cathedral on fire a

 TBILISI, Georgia — Georgian fans watched Ilia Topuria fight at the White House on a night of high expectations and eventual disappointment, as American fighter Justin Gaethje defeated the favourit