Geneva Politics News

A novelty of the new set-up, which merges the current post of EU foreign policy representative and commissioner for external relations, means she will also become vice-president of the European Commission. Unlike other commissioner nominees designated last week, she will...

The posters are considered racist and insulting to Islam, yet they are on public display in the streets and main squares of Switzerland's biggest cities ahead of tomorrow's hotly disputed referendum on whether to ban the building of minarets on...

Ahead of the WTO Ministerial Meeting in Geneva next week, India on Friday said protectionism by some countries need to be opposed and delay in reaching a global trade-opening deal will harm developing countries. "We are concerned about the global...

Geneva — The UN labor agency has criticized Burma for failing to abolish forced labor more than a decade after the global body first took up the issue with the Southeast Asian country, officials said Friday. The International Labor Organization...

The Obama Administration is conducting an experiment by joining the Human Rights Council. A senior official of the State Department said that the administration hopes to engage the other nations in a dialogue on universal values. The Human Rights Council...

The United States recently joined the UN Human Rights Council. It would seem as if one of the first bills that the US will back will curtail one of those rights. The resolution is backed by Egypt and it calls...

Flu infections may be peaking in some parts of the northern hemisphere, but are still spreading fast in others, the World Health Organization said on Friday. In an update on the H1N1 swine flu virus, the WHO said parts of...

The large magnets that bend particle beams around the LHC are kept at this frigid temperature using liquid helium. The magnets are arranged end-to-end in a 27km-long circular tunnel straddling the Franco-Swiss border. The cool-down is an important milestone ahead...