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The vote revealed the hidden fears of many Swiss, and Muslims should respond by trying to build harmony across society, a leading Muslim scholar says. The reaction of Ali Gomaa, the grand mufti of Egypt, was echoed by a number...

The accord, signed on the final day of a three-day ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Geneva, is far less ambitious and comprehensive than the reductions in industrial tariffs envisaged in the stalled Doha round launched in 2001....

Trade ministers appear unable to bridge a gap between emerging and developed nations that could break the eight-year stalemate in the Doha round of trade talks. While not formally on the agenda, the Doha round has loomed large over a...

Almost two dozen emerging countries agreed Wednesday to cut tariffs on some goods by 20 percent as part of a deal that aims to stimulate trade in the developing world. Ministers representing Brazil, India, and 20 other countries pledged to...

The U.N.'s environment chief believes next week's climate change talks in Copenhagen will be "dramatic," and is optimistic a deal containing firm targets to cut carbon emissions is possible...Environment Program, says President Barack Obama's proposal to cut U.S. emissions by...

Geneva, Switzerland- In a referendum seen across Europe and much of the world as a strong rebuke of the perceived Islamization of the continent, Swiss voters on Sunday passed a bill that bans the construction of new minarets for mosques...

The United Nations launched an appeal Monday for $7.1 billion in humanitarian aid for 2010 but said it was finalizing calls for about a billion more, which would push the request to a record high. The amount did not include the...

Syed Nahas Pasha, London London, Dec 1 (bdnews24.com)�Religious leaders in the UK, alongside London's former mayor Ken Livingstone, have condemned the Swiss decision to ban the construction of new minarets following a referendum this week. "The ban on minarets in...

French-Swiss border pushed past Fermilab's Tevatron, becoming the world's most powerful collider. "It's a mixed feeling of course for us," Fermilab spokesman Kurt Riesselmann said. "On one hand, we don't hold the world record any more. But on the other...

Over the last century, Switzerland is known all over the world as the nation of neutrality. This country was the only country in Europe that did not fight in World War I and World War II. Their neutral stand has...