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The UN political chief urged Libya’s rival factions on Monday to agree on measures governing the transition to elections during talks in Geneva later this week, expressing hope this will lead to long-awaited voting "at the earliest possible date." Rosemary DiCarlo told the UN Security Council that during talks in…

Head of Libya’s Presidential Council will intervene to determine the legal framework for the country’s electoral process if the meeting of the leaders of the House of Representatives (HoR) and High Council of State (HoS) in Geneva failed. The chairman, Mohamed al-Menfi, said during his meeting in Tripoli with tribal…

Several new Saudi ambassadors and a member of the Shura council were sworn in before Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz on Tuesday. The ceremony was held at the al-Salam palace in Jeddah. The new ambassadors include the Kingdom’s envoys to China, Nepal, Peru, Georgia, Sri…

Picture it: Geneva, Switzerland, 1979. Me on bended knee, with a ring I’d emptied my bank account to buy.

Since Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala took over as head of the World Trade Organization last year, one of her main bugbears has been the negotiating style of member countries, which she says is ineffective, inflexible and needs to change.

GENEVA: India changed the narrative and controlled it well from beginning to end at the WTO ministerial conference that saw some landmark decisions and the country's image has risen phenomenally in the world community, sources said.

The World Trade Organization concluded hard-won deals Friday on fishing subsidies, food insecurity and Covid-19 vaccines in a landmark bundle of agreements secured through hectic round-the-clock talks. WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said the trade ministers' conference had struck an "unprecedented package of deliverables" which would make a difference to people's…

Some flights to and from Paris CDG on Thursday morning are grounded because of industrial action

Geneva airport announced that it had begun gradually resuming flights after a computer glitch closed down Switzerland's airspace Wednesday morning. The air traffic control system grounded flights at the country's main airports, officials said.