GENEVA: Cluster bombs, artillery shells and missiles are still stockpiled in 69 nations a year after they were banned by a new international law, a London-based coalition of 200 activist groups said Wednesday.
The London-based Cluster Munition (...)
BEIRUT: The UN human rights office on Tuesday raised the death toll from the eight-month Syrian uprising to 3,500, as activists on the ground reported that fresh attacks by Syrian troops killed two people in a rebellious central city where the (...)
GENEVA — Sky-high fuel prices have hit the profits of the world's airlines though Europe's carriers recovered after suffering last year from a volcanic ash cloud that brought traffic to a standstill, the industry's main lobby group said (...)
ZURICH (AP): Voters in Zurich have overwhelmingly rejected calls to ban assisted suicide or to outlaw the practice for nonresidents.
Zurich's cantonal voters by about a 4-to-1 margin Sunday defeated both measures that had been pushed by political (...)
GENEVA: Western powers pressed the UN's top human rights body Friday to investigate possible abuses in Syria, where officials say the killings of more than 450 people during protests may include crimes against humanity.
The United States and the (...)
GENEVA: Investigators launching a U.N.-ordered probe into wartime human rights abuses in Libya vowed Friday to visit villages, prisons and conflict zones, sparing no one and no region from scrutiny.
The probe into possible violations of (...)
GENEVA: Libyan border crossings were overwhelmed Wednesday by tens of thousands of hungry, fearful people fleeing its burgeoning civil war. Egypt and a handful of European nations launched emergency airlifts and sent ships to handle the chaotic (...)