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Covering the United Nations agencies and other international organisations based in Geneva, as well as Swiss news for international readers. Producing news articles and features, translating and editing articles written by other correspondents in English and French, and shooting and editing video for AFPTV.
China is, for the first time, believed to have some warheads on high operational alert
Alieu Kosiah maintains he is innocent and has requested a full acquittal
Michelle Bachelet insisted on the need to bring perpetrators of a vast array of rights abuses to justice
Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor and critic of Prince Mohammed, was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2
While aid workers have been rushing to bring emergency aid to the hundreds of thousands of affected people, there is a need to focus on sanitation
A new report from the charity was published ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos
The mountain gorilla has been moved from the ‘critically endangered’ category to ‘endangered’
Annan was a career diplomat who is widely credited for raising the world body’s profile in global politics during his two terms as UN chief
Despite the focus on migrant numbers arriving in Europe and the United States, a full 85% of refugees are living in low- and middle-income countries
An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has a clear "potential to expand", WHO warned on Wednesday
In recent years, women have made significant progress towards equality in a number of areas but the global trend now seems to have made a U-turn
Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has warned that countries risk making the situation worse if their counter-terrorism operations are perceived as unjust.
A vaccine could be made available for healthcare workers as early as November if the prototype undergoing trials is proven safe.
The world’s first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and restored as part of a project to celebrate 20 years of the web.
Norway’s Anders Behring Breivik has told the court he was inspired by al-Qaeda, after a judge who wanted him to face the death penalty was dismissed.
The Nobel season opens with the medicine prize announcement, with the peace and literature awards both tipped to be coloured by the Arab Spring.
A slick black head breaks the surface, drawing shrieks from whale watchers in a lucrative activity that some say should replace whale hunts.
Long considered the oil capital of Norway, the small south-western town of Stavanger has begun hunting for a new image that will keep the money flowing in even after the oil…
While organic food and ”green” products are gradually catching on among wealthier, educated people around the globe, natural living has long been the norm across Europe’s Nordic…
Yves Chauvin of France and Americans Robert H Grubbs and Richard R Schrock on Wednesday won the Nobel Prize for a breakthrough in carbon chemistry that opens the way to smarter…
