Geneva News

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The Palestinian Authority, under heavy pressure from the United States, has withdrawn its support for a U.N. Human Rights Council resolution on alleged war crimes in Gaza, diplomats said Thursday.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

Iran's foreign minister is making a rare appearance in Washington after being granted a visa by the State Department to visit the Pakistani embassy, which represents Iranian interests with the U.S. government.

Iran tested its longest-range missiles Monday and warned they can reach any place that threatens the country, including Israel, parts of Europe and U.S. military bases in the Mideast.

Iran said Saturday it will allow U.N. nuclear inspectors to examine its newly revealed, still unfinished uranium enrichment facility as world criticism mounted over the underground site that was developed secretly.

Iran's sudden revelation of a formerly secret uranium enrichment plant brought more condemnation Saturday at the U.N. General Assembly, with the Netherlands calling Tehran's presumed weapons program "a major challenge to international peace and security." Slovakia's Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak joined the chorus of outrage, rebuking "Iran's ...

Iran's president says his country will ask the six world powers at nuclear talks next week for imports of highly enriched uranium - material that the U.S. fears Tehran wants to use to arm nuclear warheads.

Russia said Saturday it will scrap a plan to deploy missiles near Poland since Washington has dumped a planned missile shield in Eastern Europe.

Leaders of the world's 20 top economies vowed to resist protectionism last November and again in April as they charted a joint strategy for confronting the worst global downturn in generations.