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- UN climate panel re-elects Rajendra Pachauri as chairman
- GENEVA AFP — The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC said Tuesday it has re-elected chairman Rajendra Pachauri for a second term. Pachauri has been head of the organisation since 2002 and oversaw its seminal assessment report in 2007 which gave graphic forecasts of the risks posed...
- Research articles 2008-09-02
- George Clooney drums up campaign dollars for Obama: report
- GENEVA AFP — Hollywood megastar George Clooney was to be the the star attraction Tuesday at a Swiss fundraising gala for US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama, a report said. Around 170 US citizens have paid 1,000 dollars a head to hear Clooney, fresh from his appearance at the...
- Research articles 2008-09-02
- Mansfield joins Cornell; Enologist finishing Ph.D. program at the University of Minnesota
- Anna Katharine Mansfield, currently the enology project leader at the University of Minnesota, has been named assistant professor of enology at Cornell University's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., effective Jan. 1, 2009. Mansfield earned a master's degree at Virginia Tech in 2001 and expects to receive...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- EU blocks US, Japan, Taiwan bid for WTO ruling on hi-tech imports
- GENEVA AFP — The WTO said Friday that the European Union had blocked a joint request by the United States, Japan and Taiwan for the Geneva-based body to settle a dispute over duties on high-technology imports. Earlier this month, US Trade Representative Susan Schwab said the three parties were...
- Research articles 2008-08-29
- U.S. District Court, Western District of the State of NY Case
- ERISA Injunction Kickham Hanley PC v. Kodak Retirement Income Plan 08-CV-6087 Judge Larimer Background: The plaintiff is a Michigan-based law firm that brought action against the defendants, an ERISA plan, alleging entitlement to attorneys fees from a common fund allegedly...
- Research articles 2008-08-27
- Swiss shelve money laundering probe into Bhutto, widower
- GENEVA AFP — Swiss authorities on Monday shelved a long-running probe into alleged money laundering against slain former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto and her husband, Swiss news agency ATS reported. Bhutto's widower Asif Ali Zardari is now the Pakistan People's Party PPP candidate to replace Pervez Musharraf as...
- Research articles 2008-08-25
- WTO, US trade chiefs in bid to revive Doha Round
- WASHINGTON AFP — World Trade Organization chief Pascal Lamy and US trade negotiator Susan Schwab held talks in Washington Friday in an effort to breathe life into the moribund Doha Round of negotiations. Lamy's visit to the US capital comes on the heels of his trip to India last...
- Research articles 2008-08-21
- Fresh WTO talks must wait until after US election: economists
- PARIS AFP — Any new attempt to grasp the grail of a world trade pact will probably have to wait until next year, after elections in the United States and India, despite some calls for more talks now, economists say. The head of the WTO, Pascal Lamy, who stressed...
- Research articles 2008-08-02
- Statement by European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, on the Outcome of the Geneva World Trade Talks
- WASHINGTON -- The failure to reach an agreement in Geneva is a profound disappointment for the EU, for the Commission, and for me. I want to pay tribute to all those who have worked long and hard for success - on the Commission side, in particular Peter Mandelson and Mariann...
- Research articles 2008-07-29
- WTO failure bodes ill for climate change: delegates
- GENEVA AFP — The failure of key powers to agree a new pact on global trade does not bode well for international cooperation in other areas such as climate change, top delegates warned Tuesday. The European Union's agriculture commissioner Mariann Fischer-Boel told journalists that the collapse of talks after...
- Research articles 2008-07-29
- WTO talks sour as 'blame game' begins
- GENEVA AFP — The United States, China and India exchanged hard words as WTO negotiations dragged into a second week on Monday, with Washington accusing India and China of hampering progress to a world trade pact, delegates said. "The blame game has started. The US began by pointing its...
- Research articles 2008-07-28
- Libya halting fuel supplies to Switzerland
- TRIPOLI AFP — OPEC member Libya said on Thursday it will halt fuel supplies to key oil client Switzerland in the latest reprisal for last week's brief detention in Geneva of a son of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi. The General National Maritime Transport Company and the Port Authority said...
- Research articles 2008-07-24
- Libya halting fuel supplies to Switzerland
- TRIPOLI AFP — OPEC member Libya said on Thursday it will halt fuel supplies to key oil client Switzerland in the latest reprisal for last week's brief detention in Geneva of a son of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi. The General National Maritime Transport Company and the Port Authority said...
- Research articles 2008-07-24
- Tokio Hotel fans camp for a week to see band up close
- GENEVA AFP — Thirty young girls have been camping for days outside Geneva's largest concert hall to get front row standing space at a gig by teen Indie rock group Tokio Hotel, a newspaper said Wednesday. The group is set to play this Saturday in the hall which has...
- Research articles 2008-07-09
- New rapid test for drug resistant TB
- GENEVA AFP — A new test to screen for drug-resistant tuberculosis will greatly help the fight against the disease in developing countries, the World Health Organisation WHO said on Monday. The test, which involves examining DNA in the saliva of sick people, will provide a diagnosis within two days...
- Research articles 2008-06-30
- World weather expert says El Nino, La Nina outlook mild
- GENEVA AFP — The World Meteorological Organisation said Tuesday that 2008 was proving a year of respite from natural climatic phenomena identified by scientists as causing havoc with weather patterns. The effects of El Nino and La Nina, respectively the warming and related cooling of Pacific sea surface temperatures,...
- Research articles 2008-06-24
- Kofi Annan's new forum to hold 'climate justice' jamboree
- GENEVA AFP — Former UN secretary general Kofi Annan will host the first high-level meeting of his new humanitarian forum here this week with the focus on "climate justice" for the developing world. The Global Humanitarian Forum will bring together luminaries from the worlds of politics, business, diplomacy and...
- Research articles 2008-06-22
- US trade diplomat says Doha deal in reach by year-end
- GENEVA AFP — The US ambassador to the World Trade Organisation voiced optimism Friday that an international trade liberalisation deal could be reached this year. The Doha Round of talks aimed at opening up markets has floundered since its launch in 2001. But the top US trade diplomat,...
- Research articles 2008-06-13
- Partnership with Portugal's Pepe progressing, Carvalho
- GENEVA AFP — Chelsea's Portugal centre-back Ricardo Carvalho said Thursday his defensive partnership alongside Real Madrid's Pepe will only improve as the quarter-finalists aim for further Euro 2008 glory. Carvalho and Pepe were at the heart of the Portuguese defence in Wednesday night's Cristiano Ronaldo-inspired 3-1 win over the...
- Research articles 2008-06-12
- El Salvador seeks award for consul who saved Jews
- WASHINGTON AFP — El Salvador is seeking a prestigious Israeli award for its late consul Jose Arturo Castellanos for saving thousands of Jews from the Holocaust in World War II, a top Salvadoran official said Wednesday. "We seek recognition for colonel Castellanos so he can receive the 'Righteous Among...
- Research articles 2008-06-11
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