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UN urges focus on North Korea human rights record
The U.N.'s top human rights official said Monday that as many as 200,000 people are being held in North Korean political prison camps rife with ...
Swatch in $1 billion deal for Harry Winston brand
Switzerland's biggest watch maker, Swatch Group AG, will pay about $1 billion to acquire Canada's Harry Winston watch and jewelry brand, officials ...
No Federer in Swiss team for Davis Cup vs. Czechs
Roger Federer is skipping Switzerland's Davis Cup match against the defending champion Czech Republic next month. The winner of 17 Grand Slam titles ...
More than 130 nations begin mercury treaty talks
Delegates from more than 130 nations began a final round of negotiations on Sunday that are expected to lead to the creation of the first legally ...
Syria talks end in Geneva without solution
International envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said Friday that Russia seems as determined as the United States to end Syria's civil war, but that he doesn't ...
UN finds rising mercury emissions, need for treaty
Mercury pollution in the top layer of the world's oceans has doubled in the past century, part of a man-made problem that will require international ...
UN rings alarm over conditions of domestic workers
At least 52.6 million people worldwide are employed as domestic workers, most of them women vulnerable to abuse and without adequate legal protection, ...
Montreux Jazz founder in coma from ski fall
The Montreux Jazz Festival says its founder and general manager Claude Nobs has been hospitalized in a coma due to a cross-country skiing injury over ...
Swiss gunman kills 3 people, had troubled history
A shooting in southern Switzerland has left three women dead, two men wounded and raised questions about how a troubled suspect was able to go on a ...
Russian FM says Assad won't go
Russia's foreign minister said Saturday that Syrian President Bashar Assad has no intention of stepping down and it would be impossible to try to ...
UN envoy, Moscow call for revival of Syria plan
Russia and the U.N called Thursday for the resuscitation of a peace initiative for Syria that never got off the ground when it was proposed months ago ...
Russia meets with Syrian envoy on peace plan
Russia is seeking to revive last summer's failed peace plan for Syria during talks with a top Syrian diplomat and the international envoy on the ...
Nations worry US trade could turn protectionist
The United States' trade partners are worried that any fiscal belt-tightening could make the country more likely to introduce protectionist measures, ...
US airlines to lead industry recovery in profits
U.S. airlines will lead a recovery in the global sector's profits next year, mainly thanks to cost cuts and restructuring measures taken to address ...
China overtakes US in number of patent filings
GENEVA — The U.N. says the Chinese filed the most patent applications in the world last year, overtaking the U.S. for the first time. The U.N.'s World ...
STMicroelectronics to exit Ericsson joint venture
Europe's largest chipmaker, STMicroelectronics NV, said Monday it plans to exit its money-losing joint venture ST-Ericsson, as it struggles to manage ...
Syria's civil war spills into Lebanon, 4 dead
Syria's civil war spilled over into neighboring Lebanon once again on Sunday, with gun battles in the northern city of Tripoli between supporters and ...
UN sees slowing growth in worker wages
The U.N. labor office says workers' wages are growing at levels well below those before the global financial crisis, and actually fell in developed ...