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Rome — The Italian ambassador to Switzerland has said that the owners of the Constellation bar in Crans-Montana, where a deadly New Year’s Eve fire killed 40 people, would have been arrested had th

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 ROME – The FAO office in Saudi Arabia invites candidates to apply for professional posts in the sand-swept Kingdom and puts highly qualified applicants through n

 ROME – UN investigators from New York have opened a probe into management of its staff in Haiti where the Kenyan country director, Wanja Kaaria, allegedly hired

 ROME — An estate agent and an insurance broker from Monza make for an

 ROME – ROME – ICCROM donor nations stopped short Friday of firing the cultural quango’s beleaguered director general, A

 ROME – WFP’s chief of staff Meghan Latcovich and director of communications Michele Quintaglie have axed as many as half of the UN agency’s employees and consult

SARAJEVO-- The sickening crack from a Serbian sharpshooter's rifle made my American colleague jump bolt upright in the driver's seat.

 ROME - The Milanese Public Prosecutor's office has been investigating a group of Italians and other foreign nationals who allegedly paid "large" sums of money to Serbian soldiers in order to parti

 RIYADH -- UNIDO director general Gerd Müller begins his second term with a costly jamboree in the Saudi capital Sunday but internal critics describe the UN agency as troubled monarchy where qualif

ROME – An Anglo-Australian family that had been living off-grid in an Abruzzo forest has been ordered to send their three children, aged 8 and twins 6, to an “educational community”, accompanied by

 ROME –- Experts gathered at the Euro-Gulf Information Centre in Rome to discuss the global crisis of learning poverty and the need for education in emergencies, with the goal of raising awareness

 VIENNA – The head of the UNIDO Somalia investment team, Ygor Scarcia, has been suspended and placed under investigation on suspicion of allegedly pumping the UN agency’s money into fraudulent sche

 ROME – British and Commonwealth military personnel, diplomats and civilians gathered at the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery in the Roman district of Testaccio to mark Remembrance Day, 80 years af

 ROME – Confimpresaitalia, an organisation of small businesses, convened in Rome for their annual national council, presided over by the Consul General of the Republic of Sierra Leone in Rome, Dr L

GAZA, Palestine – Three weeks into the ceasefire, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has distributed food parcels to

 ROME – Five Italian mountaineers have died in two separate incidents in Nepal after severe weather hit the country, the Italian Foreign Ministry said.

KINGSTON / HAVANA / PORT-AU-PRINCE– As the full extent of Hurricane Melissa’s destruction emerges, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is intensifying relief efforts in t

 PADUA – On Saturday, students assembled in Padua’s Palazzo Bo to mark one year since the Novi Sad tragedy in Northern Serbia.

PANJAKENT- Driving in the remote Seven Lakes region of Tajikistan in Central Asia, takes tremendous skill. The roads are in poor condition, and single lanes are used for two-way traffic.

 ROME -- Finnish Minister of Defence Antti Häkkänen and his Italian counterpart Guido Crosetto officially have confirmed Italy’s participation in NATO’s Forward Land Forces (FLF) in Finland.