Syrian refugees in Jordan unmoved by peace bid
Source: The Daily Star
Geneva :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 16:28:23 -0700 | political-news
International efforts to organize a Syria peace conference are at fever pitch, but in Jordan's Zaatari camp, Syrian refugees are more concerned with the misery of their daily lives than diplomatic maneuvering. To be honest, we're fed up with these...
Swiss Banking Secrecy Under Pressure From Europe
Source: International Herald Tribune
Geneva :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 19:29:07 -0700 | business-news
Now that Luxembourg and Austria have given ground on bank secrecy rules, the spotlight has turned to Switzerland, a country famous for the anonymity it provides in equal measure to the rich, the famous and those who want to hide...
McQuaid: Panel to study UCI-Armstrong 'collusion'
Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer
Geneva :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-23 21:09:02 -0700 | sports-news
Cycling federation president Pat McQuaid says an independent panel will examine the allegations that the UCI was complicit in Lance Armstrong's doping. McQuaid tells The Associated Press that senior UCI and World Anti-Doping Agency officials will meet in Russia next...
Swiss banks facing huge fine over US assets: Rpt
Source: The Economic Times
Geneva :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 03:19:44 -0700 | business-news
Swiss banks holding US citizens' funds that are not declared to American tax authorities are set to have to pay a massive fine, under a deal between Switzerland and Washington, a newspaper reported Wednesday. The Swiss daily Neue Zuercher Zeitung,...
UN predicts boom in trade of 'green' products
Source: The Bellingham Herald
Geneva :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-08 05:31:36 -0700 | green-news
The U.N.'s environment agency says the global market for low-carbon and environment-friendly goods and services is projected to almost triple to $2.2 trillion by 2020...Environment Program says trade in organic food and beverages is likely to reach $105 billion by...
In Praise of UN Rights Rapporteur Richard Falk
Source: Salem News
Geneva :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-06 21:44:21 -0700 | allnews
Shortly after the 15 April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, published an analysis of the episode entitled A Commentary...
In Praise of UN Rights Rapporteur Richard Falk
Source: Salem News
Geneva :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-06 21:44:21 -0700 | allnews
Shortly after the 15 April 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University and United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, published an analysis of the episode entitled A Commentary...
Stalemated world trade body nears choice for new leader
Source: Turks and Caicos Free Press
Geneva :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-24 01:50:38 -0700 | business-news
Herminio Blanco, Mexican candidate to head the World Trade Organization (WTO), speaks during an interview with Reuters in Mexico City February 13, 2013. The World Trade Organization has overseen a 12-year stalemate in global trade talks . On Wednesday, it...
China must obey ruling on US steel imports: WTO
Source: The Economic Times
Geneva :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-03 09:33:40 -0700 | business-news
China must fall into line by July 31 with a World Trade Organisation order to change its restrictive policy on certain steel imports from the United States, an arbitrator said Friday. A WTO dispute settlement hearing decided that Beijing had...
Update: Nominee for Top Human Rights Prize Acknowledges “My Anti-Israel Tweets”
Source: Canadian Free Press
Geneva :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-01 13:09:35 -0700 | political-news
In response to new revelations, a top contender for the world's premier human rights prizeone of three Final Nominees selected by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and eight other NGOstoday acknowledged having posted anti-Israel tweets...Controversy erupted after Mona Seif was...
Does antimatter exhibit antigravity?
Source: NewKerala
Geneva :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-01 08:25:47 -0700 | technology-news
Four University of California, Berkeley, physicists are trying to find out whether matter and antimatter are affected differently by gravity. They are asking whether antimatter fall upward -- that is, exhibit anti-gravity -- or fall downward at a different rate...
UN Watch urges event to be canceled after Falk was condemned worldwide
Source: Canadian Free Press
Geneva :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-04-29 10:22:51 -0700 | allnews
A famous San Francisco tech finance pioneer is being called upon to cancel his sponsorship of a lecture tomorrow night that will honor a UN official who was denounced by world leaders last week for suggesting that the Boston bombings...
UN Watch urges event to be canceled after Falk was condemned worldwide
Source: Canadian Free Press
Geneva :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-04-29 10:22:51 -0700 | allnews
A famous San Francisco tech finance pioneer is being called upon to cancel his sponsorship of a lecture tomorrow night that will honor a UN official who was denounced by world leaders last week for suggesting that the Boston bombings...
Swiss central bank keeps some gold in UK, Canada
Source: The Bellingham Herald
Geneva :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-04-26 07:41:37 -0700 | business-news
Jordan says 70 percent of the central bank's 1,040 tons of gold is stored in Switzerland, while 20 percent is stashed with the Bank of England and 10 percent with the Bank of Canada. His disclosure in a speech Friday...
Red Cross chief criticises US drone use in Pakistan
Source: DAWN
Geneva :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-04-16 09:21:28 -0700 | travel-news
Red Cross chief Peter Maurer on Tuesday condemned US drone strikes outside areas officially engulfed in armed conflict, warning against a creeping expansion of the definition of what constitutes a battlefield. Washington's secretive and controversial use of drones was not...
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