GENEVA — Venezuela charged on Friday that US-led sanctions had stopped foreign debt refinancing, blocked vital food and medicine imports, and cost billions of dollars in lost oil assets.
Vice Foreign Minister William Castillo also rejected censure (...)
TRIPOLI/GENEVA — Casualties from the battle for Libya's capital mounted on Tuesday while Daesh (the so-called IS) killed three people in a desert town, illustrating how jihadists may exploit renewed chaos.
Medical facilities reported 47 people (...)
GENEVA — Israel is depriving millions of Palestinians of access to a regular supply of clean water while stripping their land of minerals "in an apparent act of pillage", a United Nations human rights investigator said on Monday.
Michael Lynk, UN (...)
GENEVA — The rare and flawless "Blue Moon Diamond" sold for 48.6 million Swiss francs ($48.4 million) to a Hong Kong buyer on Wednesday, setting a world record for a gemstone at auction, Sotheby's said.
The cushion-shaped diamond, mounted on a ring, (...)
Kate Kelland
Reuters
GENEVA/LONDON – Two studies showing how scientists mutated the H5N1 bird flu virus into a form that could cause a deadly human pandemic will be published only after experts fully assess the risks, the World Health (...)
