Geneva News

The fallout from Iran's disputed presidential vote is dimming what were already modest prospects for meaningful negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear program.

China defended its curbs on exports of industrial raw materials against unfair-trade complaints by the United States and Europe and announced Wednesday it has filed its own challenge to a U.S. ban on imports of Chinese poultry.

There is no denying it: Bellingham is a city of peace. In 2006, local government called for the troops to come home from Iraq.

The carcasses of cars and trucks and bombed buildings on Monday greeted the visitor to Buner, the northwestern district that the Pakistani government largely has wrested back from Taliban insurgents.

The Southern Hemisphere has been mostly spared in the swine flu epidemic. That could change when winter starts in coming weeks with no vaccine in place, leaving half the planet out in the cold.

Geneva/Washington - Mexico has called on members of the World Trade Organization to withdraw any measures taken against Mexican pork products since news emerged of an outbreak of a new influenza virus, according to a document circulated on Tuesday.

A 12-year-old girl was injured Saturday morning, May 2, when an alleged drunken driver collided with the car she was in on North Terrace Avenue in the Geneva area.

GreenBiz.com, 24 April 2009 - The building sector and governments have made progress but are not doing enough to improve energy efficiency in the built environment -- and will not meet targets to address global climate change unless sweeping action is taken immediately to slash energy use, according to a new report by the World Business Council for ...

Five commissioner positions in four fire districts in southern Whatcom County are up for election this year, but the districts are discouraging candidates from filing to run.

To you delusional morons, Battlefield uniformed TROOPS have Geneva protection NOT non-uniformed enemy combatants! The Japanese never signed on to the Geneva Convention.

Washington has not sent Iran sufficient signals on whether the U.S. wants warmer relations and President Barack Obama's support for Israel during its offensive in Gaza was "a major mistake," Iran's president said in an interview broadcast Sunday.

The head of the World Health Organization arrived in Geneva on Saturday to oversee the agency's handling of the swine flu outbreak that is believed to have killed dozens of people in Mexico.

Iran's President President Ahmadinejad addresses the High Level segment of the Durban Review Conference on racism at the U.N. European headquarters in Geneva By Laura MacInnis GENEVA/WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama on Tuesday condemned as "appalling and objectionable" a speech by Iran's president which denounced Israel as a racist state and ...

Durban Conf. Participants Defuse Plot against Iranian President TEHRAN - Thousands of participants at the Durban Review Conference in Geneva on Monday defused a plot by the Zionist lobbies to insult Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and heckle his inaugural address to the conference.

The U.N. opens its first global racism conference in eight years on Monday with at least six countries, including the United States, boycotting the event out of concern that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Islamic countries will demand a final statement that criticizes Israel and restricts free speech.

GENEVA/WASHINGTON The United States will boycott a United Nations conference on racism next week, the US State Department said on Saturday, citing objectionable language in the meeting's draft declaration.

Whatcom County will consider allowing the major expansion of a gravel and sand pit south of Acme, after County Council members voted to docket the request for study this year.

GENEVA/WASHINGTON: The UN High Commission for Refugees and the United States on Friday approved $140 million and $8 million respectively for Pakistani villages hosting Afghan refugees to help them cope in ...

The wife of a crusading civil rights lawyer said Friday that she and their two children are now in the United States after paying human traffickers to smuggle them out of China to escape harassment by security ...

POLITICIANS and ambassadors may spend thousands renting art, but it seems there's no accounting for taste.