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Geneva

Type: City

Name: Geneva

Country: Switzerland

Latitude: 46.209339

Longitude: 6.161911

population: 185,526

First Reported 3 hours ago - Updated 3 hours ago - 2 Documents

More than 200 law enforcement officers train in Geneva

GENEVA - Geneva County Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Tony Helms skimmed over hundreds of law enforcement officials at Maple Avenue Baptist Church on Friday. He offered a small smirk every now and then that symbolized his excitement. ... [Local News for Dothan Eagle - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Geneva, Baptist Church

First Reported 10 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 3 Documents

Swiss seize $US350m from late dictator

Swiss authorities say they've ordered that about $US350 million ($A380.68 million) of assets be seized from the son of the late Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha for graft.'The first order of the sentence issued yesterday by the examining magistrate found ... [Sky News Australia - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Sani Abacha, Dictator, Geneva, Criminal

First Reported 10 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 7 Documents

International Atomic Energy Agency

US Says Next Big-Power Meeting on Iranian Nuclear Program Will Take Up Punitive Steps

Iran's Wom nuclear facilityShare This"This is something the Iranians agreed to in principle. "If you remember back in the Geneva meeting they agreed in principle to this proposal that was brought about under the auspices of the IAEA. And since then Iran ... [VOA News - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Iran, Robert Wood, International Atomic Energy Agency

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 12 hours ago - 5 Documents (in Politics)

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF/ICEF)

Somalia to join child rights pact - U.N.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Somalia has announced it plans to ratify a global treaty aimed at protecting children, leaving the United States as the only country outside the pact, UNICEF said on Friday.Somalia and the United States have long been the last hold-outs ... [Reuters India - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Somalia, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF/ICEF), Geneva, United States

First Reported 12 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Politics)

World Trade Organization

Group cuts deal without WTO

GENEVA - AS THE World Trade Organisation's Doha round stumbles into its ninth year with no end in sight, a group of 22 developing countries are poised to clinch their own deal to cut tariffs and boost trade among themselves.The deal to expand the General ... [Straits Times - 2 hours ago]

Entities: World Trade Organization, United Nations Conference on Trade and Developm..., Geneva, South Korea

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 4 Documents (in Health)

World Health Organization

H1N1 vaccine as safe as seasonal flu shot: WHO

The World Health Organization has ruled out swine flu vaccine as a reason for the death of 41 people who had received the flu shot.WHO vaccines chief Marie-Paule Kieny said Thursday that investigations are continuing into several more deaths. 'No new ... [CBC - 11/19/2009]

Entities: World Health Organization, Swine Flu Vaccine, Marie-Paule Kieny, Vaccine, David Butler-Jones

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 3 Documents (in Politics)

United Nations

Buddhists in Vietnam appeal for UN protection

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - Followers of the Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh are being harassed in his native Vietnam, and they need the United Nations to step in to protect them, a representative said Wednesday.In a meeting this week with an official of ... [Asiaone - 11/19/2009]

Entities: Vietnam, Nhat Hanh, United Nations

First Reported 3 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Politics)

Indian proposals for WTO reforms on ministerial agenda

New Delhi: After the Doha Round impasse exposed the internal contradictions in the World Trade Organisations (WTO) style of functioning, India has proposed a near-radical package for reforming the world body. The proposals include an institutionalised ... [Financial Express - 2 hours ago]

Entities: World Trade Organization, Doha (Qatar), India

First Reported 12 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Internet & IT)

CERN atom-smasher restarts after 14-month breakdown: official

GENEVA (AFP) The world's biggest atom-smasher, shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, restarted on Friday, a spokesman for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said. 'The first tests of injecting sub-atomic ... [AFP via Yahoo! - 6 hours ago]

Entities: CERN, Geneva, James Gillies

First Reported 8 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 2 Documents (in Politics)

Somalia to join child rights pact, only U.S. outside (Reuters)

GENEVA (Reuters) Somalia has announced it plans to ratify a global treaty aimed at protecting children, leaving the United States as the only country outside the pact, UNICEF said Friday.Somalia and the United States have long been the last hold-outs ... [Yahoo! News - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Somalia, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF/ICEF), United States

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 2 Documents

Muslim countries seek blasphemy ban

GENEVA: Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery. Algeria and Pakistan have taken the lead in lobbying to bring the matter to a vote in the UN General Assembly. The countries ... [Daily Times - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Muslim, UN General Assembly, Developing World, Algeria, Geneva

First Reported 11/19/2009 - Updated 11/19/2009 - 2 Documents

Eight Years Later: 'Most Dangerous Place To Be Born'

ABC’s Nick Schifrin files this sad item from Kabul: In a press conference in Geneva today, the South Asia regional director for UNICEF said this: "Afghanistan today is without a doubt the most dangerous place to be born.” Dan Toole... ... [ABC News - 11/19/2009]

Entities: United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF/ICEF), Geneva, Kabul

Quotes

Finally, he's given a ride in a prototype. "Could you go from London to Geneva in the back of this car?" someone asks as he steps out

Aston's new factory - pic special [Autocar.co.uk - 1 hour ago]

Iran's U N Ambassador, Mohammad Khazaee, denounced the resolution as 'politically charged and motivated' and full of false claims. "Abusing the U N human rights mechanisms for short sighted political experiences reduces the highly valued concept of human rights into a tool of foreign policy for certain countries. This has created an atmosphere of confrontation and polarization which would only erode the capacity of the United Nations for the meaningful promotion of human rights" he said. Many of the member states that abstained or cast 'no' votes said they are opposed to resolutions that single out specific countries for censure...

UN GA Condemns Post-Election Abuses in Iran [GlobalSecurity.org - 1 hour ago]

"This is something the Iranians agreed to in principle. "If you remember back in the Geneva meeting they agreed in principle to this proposal that was brought about under the auspices of the IAEA. And since then Iran has had a difficult time saying yes to this proposal. So we're hopeful that Iran will, but should it not, we will obviously take a looklook at the pressure side of our dual-track approach," said Deputy State Department Spokesman Robert Wood."

US Says Next Big-Power Meeting on Iranian Nuclear Program Will Take Up Punitive Steps [VOA News - 2 hours ago]

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CLIMATE CHANGE: Health at Risk [Inter Press Service - 2 hours ago]
Group cuts deal without WTO [Straits Times - 2 hours ago]
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Recreating the Big Bang: The LHC is restarted [Public Service - 3 hours ago]
More than 200 law enforcement officers train in... [Local News for Dothan Eagle - 3 hours ago]
More than 200 law enforcement officers train in... [Local News for Dothan Eagle - 4 hours ago]
Foreign Office mandarins rack up 90,000 expense... [Telegraph - 4 hours ago]
More must be done to tackle global crisis of ro... [United Nations - 4 hours ago]
Swine flu may have hit one peak; more to come ... [Yahoo! News - 4 hours ago]
U.S. demands Iran give positive response to UN ... [Xinhua News Agency - 4 hours ago]
Beam sent around Large Hadron Collider [Sympatico - 4 hours ago]
RESEARCH: Atom-smasher restarts after 14 months [France24 - 5 hours ago]
India, US race to save nuke deal [Deccan Chronicle - 5 hours ago]
Politics is easy just ask Sir Stelios [Times Online - 5 hours ago]
Swiss seize $US350m from late dictator [Sky News Australia - 5 hours ago]

Blogs

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Keynes the Man as Rotten as His Economic Theory... [The Market Oracle - 11 hours ago] Keynes's Political EconomyIn The General Theory, Keynes set forth a unique politicoeconomic sociology, dividing the population of each country into several rigidly ...
Drumbeat: November 20, 2009 [The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our ... - 12 hours ago] Peak Oil Files: Why Is Saudi Aramco Building Supercomputers? The biannual list of the world’s 500 fastest computers was released on Tuesday and Aramco had two new ...
Malaria Gaining Resistance to Best Available Tr... [Wired: Wired Science - 11/20/2009] WASHINGTON — Malaria that is resistant to the best available drug is more widespread in Southeast Asia than previously reported, new research shows. The worrisome ...
CAMR â No problems with the WTO (Hill Qu... [Progressive Bloggers - 11/19/2009] The hearings into Bill S-232 on reforming Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime continued in the Senate Banking, Trade and Commerce committee. Both witnesses today ...

Audio/Video

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How Iranian nukes would reshape the Middle East. [Slate Magazine - 10/09/2009]
Is the Iran nuke talks breakthrough genuine, or... [Slate Magazine - 10/02/2009]
Iran agrees to nuclear inspection [Reuters Video: Top News - 10/01/2009]
Iranians protest at Geneva talks [Reuters Video: Top News - 10/01/2009]
Iran, major powers head to Geneva [Reuters Video: Top News - 10/01/2009]

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