Sanaa : Saudi-led air strikes struck military and civilian airports here on Saturday, destroying the runways, after peace talks in Geneva collapsed.An airport official told Xinhua news agency that the air strikes destroyed the runways
Geneva: The number of people forcibly displaced at the end of 2014 had risen to a staggering 59.5 million, which was at the highest level since records began, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Geneva: The UN yesterday hoped that Sri Lanka will put in place mechanisms for accountability and reconciliation ahead of its September session when the long-awaited report on alleged human rights violations in the country will
Geneva: The G-20 economies witnessed a "slight deceleration" in application of new trade-restrictive measures, with average number of such steps imposed per month falling to the lowest since 2013, a WTO report said on Monday.However,
Geneva: The UN-led Geneva Consultations on Yemen will begin on Monday, officials said.The announcement was made by Ahmad Fawzi, director of information service of the UN at Geneva, on Friday, Xinhua news agency reported.According to
Geneva: U.S. officials say Secretary of State John Kerry has been helicoptered to a Swiss hospital after a bike crash outside of Geneva, where he had been holding nuclear talks with Iran's foreign minister.State Department
Berlin: The Ebola crisis in western Africa showed the world in a painful way that a global catastrophe plan is needed to deal with future epidemics, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday."The struggle (against Ebola)
United Nations: The U.N. secretary-general instructed his special envoy to Syria on Thursday to relaunch a political process aimed at ending the four-year-old conflict, the clearest sign yet that a plan to freeze hostilities in
Geneva:U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Switzerland to resume Iran nuclear talks as negotiations go down to the wire against an end-of-month deadline for the outline of a deal.With just days until
Geneva: The weekly Ebola cases in the three most affected countries -- Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone -- rose for the first time this year, according to the latest tally released Wednesday by the World
Geneva: The World Health Organization says at least 8,153 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.The Geneva-based body said on Monday that the total number of confirmed, probable and suspected deaths from
Washington: While 2014 saw some marvellous discoveries like 3D-printed body parts and scientific breakthroughs like comet landing, 2015 too holds a great future for science, reports the prestigious journal Nature.The first big news is expected
Geneva: Senior officials from the United States and Iran resumed talks today over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, a diplomatic source said, three weeks after world powers missed a deadline for reaching a deal.The two-day discussions
Paris: Whistleblower Herve Falciani, who leaked information related to thousands of illicit bank account holders at HSBC in Geneva, was indicted by Swiss authorities on Thursday for industrial espionage and breach of trade and banking
New Delhi: India will stick to its position on the food security issue at the WTO trade negotiations as it is the sovereign duty of the government to protect the interest of its poor, Commerce
Colombo: Sri Lanka will counter the charges of human rights violation during the final phase of its military campaign against the LTTE, at the UN Human Rights Council sessions beginning tomorrow in Geneva.The External Affairs
Geneva: A rare necklace, engraved with names of Mughal emperors Akbar and Jahangir goes under the hammer in Geneva tomorrow by Christie's, which is also auctioning the world's largest flawless blue diamond, in a sale
New Delhi: The Royal Penthouse Suite at Geneva's Hotel President Wilson is the most expensive hotel room in the world.The suite has 12 bedrooms and 12 marble bathrooms, plus a wraparound terrace with views of
Geneva: A hijacked Ethiopian Airlines' flight landed early Monday at Geneva International Airport, but the situation inside the plane was still unclear, according to various reports.The Boeing 767-300 flight from Addis Abba to Milan via
Geneva: A U.N. spokeswoman says organizers are weighing moving part of January's Syria peace conference to the other end of Lake Geneva because of insufficient hotel rooms in Geneva itself.Corinne Momal-Vanian says Montreux—the swank home
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