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 BRINDISI -- The United Nations, in its quest to sound profound while tightening the belt, has rolled out a masterpiece of bureaucratic theatre -- the UN80 Initia

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 BUDAPEST  - As Peter Magyar steps into his role as Hungary's incoming Prime Minister, the first critical test of how far he willing to break from the illiberal;

 ROME - Following fierce public backlash from the local community, North Yorkshire Council has rejected plans by FAO partner Danone to expand a water bottling plant by clearing an area of community

 ROME --  Fun-loving FAO Evaluation Division Director Clemencia Cosentino enjoyed four separate trips to regional offices of the UN agency around the world recent

 ROME – Iran urged Italy Saturday to encourage the United States to respect the principles of international law and desist from ”bellicose behaviour” and said Tehran is “ready to play a positive ro

 ROME -- Corruption involving misuse of millions of dollars of donor funds, abuse of authority, racism and favouritism are becoming everyday practices in the trou

  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti --The end of the “personal kingdom” of the WFP Haiti country director Wanja Kaaria and her sidekick Helen Kamau is in sight after Wanja wa

 ROME - A Ukrainian drone strike hit the Apatit chemical plant in Russia’s Vologda region, setting fire to the facility, Ukrainian media said Tuesday. 

 ROME -- The alleged French lover of FAO Deputy Director General Godfrey Magwenzi was transferred out of the team of the FAO Independent Chair of Council after he suspected that she was spying on t

 ROME - Spain and Turkey have announced they will contest the 2027 FAO leadership election, joining Italy and Ireland in putting forward candidates to lead the UN agency. 

 BRINDISI – The election of Imed Zabaar as the new president of the international civil servants’ labor union federation FICSA has raised new questions about the

 ROME – The Irish government has nominated the burley former EU commissioner Phil Hogan to run as Ireland’s candidate in the contest to choose the next Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) direc

 ROME – Luke Lindberg, the US Agriculture Department’s undersecretary for trade and foreign agricultural affairs, is a “leading contender” to run the UN World Foo

 ROME – Staffers from the embattled World Food Programme shed few tears on WFP facebook pages and other social media over the news that Executive Director Cindy Mc

 ROME – WFP chief of staff Meghan ‘chopper pilot’ Latcovich is expected to depart the hunger-fighting programme imminently following the resignation of WFP Executive director Cindy McCain though st

 ROME -- Cindy McCain, Executive Director of the World Food Programme, Thursday said she will step down, raising the prospect that US Ambassador to the UN agencies, Lynda Blanchard, a millionairess

 ROME--Maurizio Martina, former Italian Minister of Agriculture, is Italy’s pick to lead the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO).