Geneva News

A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman says Russian and American negotiators could reach a new arms control agreement within the next few hours.

Winners have been announced for the Gingerbread House Contest at the Port of Bellingham's Holiday Port Festival, held the first weekend in December.

Integrating Whatcom Middle School students into existing middle schools, renting a non-district building or quickly building the school on Aldrich Road are suggestions for handling displaced Whatcom students and staff after this school year.

Nearly all displaced Whatcom Middle School students and staff will remain where they are for the rest of the 2009-10 school year, said Bellingham School District Acting Superintendent Sherrie Brown on Wednesday, Dec.

The U.S. unveiled a strategy Wednesday to crack down on biological weapons that doesn't include any international enforcement, continuing the Bush administration's rejection of binding verification plans.

Students and staff from fire-damaged Whatcom Middle School have been distributed among four other Bellingham schools for three weeks.

Geneva Washington Samuel, 75, departed this earthly life unexpectedly on Tuesday, Nov.

County leaders want to leave Geneva and Hillsdale as urban growth areas so Bellingham can pull them into city limits, but they only want rural levels of growth there because those areas are in the Lake Whatcom watershed.

Iran hinted Monday it could agree to ship some low-enriched uranium abroad for processing as reactor fuel as the world awaited its reply on a U.N.-drafted nuclear plan aimed at easing tensions with the West.

Fairhaven neighborhood activist Michael Lilliquist wants to take the civic experience he's gained the past few years to work on careful planning for the city's growth.

Geneva/Washington - Some 20 per cent of children born each year, mostly in the poorest parts of the globe, remain without life- saving inoculations, a new international study released Wednesday showed.

The head of the U.N. nuclear agency says talks that could persuade Iran to move most of its enriched uranium out of the country are off to a"good start." Tehran says it needs enriched uranium for nuclear fuel, but the West fears it could be used for weapons.

Iran's ability to break out of its peaceful nuclear program and make a weapon could be delayed at talks opening Monday that will test Tehran's willingness to make good on a tentative deal reached earlier this month.

The U.N. Human Rights Council voted Friday to endorse a Gaza war crimes report and send it to the Security Council, possibly setting up international prosecution of Israelis and Palestinians accused of war crimes.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton travels to Russia on Monday hoping to win Moscow's backing for a strong stance on Iran's nuclear program and looking for progress on a new arms control pact.

Palestinian diplomats in Geneva say a U.N. report on war crimes in Gaza "remains alive" despite dropping their support for a resolution endorsing the 575-page document.

The Palestinian Authority, under heavy pressure from the United States, has withdrawn its support for a U.N. Human Rights Council resolution on alleged war crimes in Gaza, diplomats said Thursday.

Iran's promise to admit inspectors to a secret nuclear plant, though hailed as a major step this week by U.S. officials and their allies, may come too late to preserve key information about its design and history, private experts and foreign government officials said Friday.

Iranian officials sat down with diplomats of six great powers at a secluded villa on the outskirts of Geneva today to try to relieve growing international pressure over Tehran's nuclear program.

A senior U.S. official has met Iran's top atomic negotiator for face-to-face talks - the first such encounter in years of big-power attempts to persuade Tehran to freeze a program that could create nuclear weapons.