A Geneva auction house raked in more than $4 million Sunday for a collection of “grand crus” from Burgundy’s renowned Domaine de la Romanee-Conti wine estate. The 1,407 bottles that went under the hammer beat expectations and sold for a total of 4.2 million ...
Syrian government negotiators at Geneva peace talks are coming under unaccustomed pressure to discuss something far outside their comfort zone: the fate of President Bashar Assad. And they are doing their best to avoid it. U.N. mediator Staffan de Mistura describes Syria’s political transition ...
Stopping the deliberate slaughter of civilians in Syria is not a byproduct of a peace deal, but a prerequisite for successful negotiations.
U.S. officials held secret communications with members of President Bashar Assad’s government to try to limit violence in Syria, and explored ways to encourage a military coup in 2011 as the civil war got underway, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. American intelligence ...
An unauthorized demonstration over Geneva budget cuts for alternative culture spun out of control late Saturday, with protesters vandalizing much of the center of the Swiss city, police said. Many luxury shops and banks had their windows smashed or covered in graffiti with messages ...
Working on a tip from the CIA, Geneva police were hunting for at least four suspects allegedly linked to the radical Islamic State group and believed to be plotting a “specific” attack in the city, Swiss officials said Thursday. As city police raised their ...
Okinawa Gov. Takeshi Onaga tells a United Nations human rights body that the central government has closed its ears to local voices in the battle over U.S. military bases.
North Korea will pursue its “defensive” nuclear program as long as it feels threatened by the United States, its U.N. disarmament envoy in Geneva told Reuters on Thursday. In a rare interview, Ambassador So Se Pyong also denounced the latest joint U.S.-South Korean military ...
The team behind the sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 plane on Tuesday said it needed an additional €20 million ($22 million) to complete a historic round-the-world flight, after battery damage grounded it for months. A spokeswoman for the record-breaking project told AFP this figure was ...
War-torn Yemen began marking the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan Thursday after a wave of Islamic State group bombings, with little hope of a cease-fire and a worsening humanitarian situation. Simultaneous bombings targeted Shiite mosques and offices in the capital late Wednesday, killing at ...
Asia has become one of the most expensive regions for people working abroad, according to a new survey, with its major cities accounting for half of the top 10 costliest expat destinations. Hong Kong climbed one place from last year to become the world’s ...
Seventy years after the end of World War II, a watch worn by legendary U.S. five-star Gen. Douglas MacArthur was sold at auction Sunday for 70,000 Swiss francs ($75,000), far above the estimate. The steel Jaeger-Lecoultre “Reverso” watch — a classic model in which ...
