GENEVA, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago man serving a 45-year prison sentence for sexually assaulting a foster child has been convicted of assaulting a second child.

Kane County Circuit Judge Donald M. Tegeler Jr. found 51-year-old Noel F. Buhay guilty Tuesday of predatory criminal sexual ...

GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. humanitarian aid official said Thursday that Syria’s government has withdrawn a controversial law that allowed authorities to seize property left behind by civilians who fled the country’s civil war, calling it a good sign that “diplomacy can win — even in Syria.”

Jan ...

GENEVA, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois county board chairman has backed off his demand for a full accounting of how much the county’s state’s attorney spent serving as the special prosecutor in the murder trial of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke.

Kane County Board Chairman Chris Lauzen on ...

GENEVA, Ill. (AP) — A former pastor of a now-defunct suburban Chicago church has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a teenager.

Ralphael J. Robinson was arrested and charged in April 2016 with aggravated criminal sexual assault and aggravated criminal sex abuse. ...

GENEVA (AP) — Officials at the world’s largest particle accelerator on Monday suspended an Italian physicist pending an investigation into his “highly offensive” presentation on gender issues that raised new concerns about sexism in science.

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear ...

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. health agency says roughly 90 percent or more of countries behind a deal to reduce harmful tobacco consumption have slapped taxes on tobacco products, banned smoking in public places and required health warnings on tobacco packs.

But supporters of the World Health ...

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N.’s top human rights body voted Friday to renew work by experts investigating alleged rights violations and crimes in war-torn Yemen, brushing aside the objections of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen’s internationally recognized government itself.

The ...

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago commodities trading firm has agreed to pay a $1.5 penalty after admitting to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission it created and instantly canceling fake orders to induce favorable transactions.

Geneva Trading USA admitted that at least three of its traders ...

GENEVA (AP) — The latest Ebola outbreak in Congo presents complex challenges as the virus spreads for the first time in an area where long-running conflict is hampering aid efforts, the regional Africa chief for the International Federation of the Red Cross said Wednesday.

Red Cross teams ...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A suspected airstrike by a Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Shiite rebels hit a local radio station in the Red Sea port province of Hodeida on Sunday, killing at least four people, a rebel official said.

The minister of information in the pro-rebel government, ...

GENEVA, N.Y. (AP) — New York grape breeders have produced a fruit that’s so big and flavorful they’ve named it after Mount Everest.

The Everest Seedless is a new variety developed at Cornell University’s agricultural research station in Geneva. Horticulture professor Bruce Reisch says the ...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A recent bout of fighting between Yemeni government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition and Shiite rebels around the Red Sea port city of Hodeida could jeopardize shipments of 46,000 tons of wheat expected to arrive within the next ten days, the World Food Program said on ...

GENEVA (AP) — Pro-Beijing scholars brought together by the Chinese government have briskly defended the country’s human rights record as criticism grows over the mass internment of ethnic minority Muslim Uighurs in China’s far west.

In a move indicative of a new public relations push, ...

ROME (AP) — The Latest on the influx of migrants into Europe (all times local):

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The U.N. human rights office is defending plans by new U.N. rights chief Michelle Bachelet to send experts to Italy and Austria to see how migrants are treated.

Rights office spokeswoman ...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — The United Nations-mediated peace talks on Yemen have stalled pending the arrival of the Shiite rebels who said they didn’t attend because they were not guaranteed safe return after the discussions.

The talks, meant to be the first between Yemen’s warring parties in two ...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Saudi Arabia shot down a missile fired across the border by Yemen’s Houthi rebels but the shrapnel wounded 26 civilians, the kingdom’s official news agency reported.

The rebels, known as Houthis, fired the missile into southern Najran province late Wednesday, where it ...

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s office says he is back in the country after undergoing medical check-ups in Switzerland.

His office’s brief statement contained no details about the health of the 81-year-old president, who uses a wheelchair and suffered a ...

GENEVA, Ill. (AP) — An investigation has concluded that a police officer was justified in fatally shooting an armed jail inmate who had taken two nurses hostage at a suburban Chicago hospital last year.

Kane County State’s Attorney Joseph McMahon issued a news release saying he had ...

BERLIN (AP) — A U.N. anti-discrimination committee raised concerns on Friday over China’s treatment of the Uighur Muslim minority, citing reports of mass detentions as it considered Beijing’s record over recent years.

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination started ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy for Yemen on Thursday invited the warring parties to talks in September aimed at ending the three-year conflict, saying the pace of fighting has increased and “the Red Sea is now a theater of war.”

Martin Griffiths told the Security Council that ...

GENEVA, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to 86 years in prison for fatally shooting a man, then kidnapping his girlfriend and their baby and leading police on a 90 mph chase.

A Kane County jury convicted 30-year-old Alberto Sepeda of Elgin in May on first-degree murder ...

GENEVA, Ill. (AP) — Geneva Police will conduct an “active-shooter” response training at a local school.

The session is scheduled for Wednesday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Western Avenue Elementary School.

Officials say the exercise will include sirens and other loud sounds. The school ...

LAKE GENEVA, Wis. (AP) — Two 17-year-old sailors from southern Wisconsin are beginning a European tour in their quest to earn a spot on the U.S. sailing team for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Harry Melges IV and Finn Rowe live in Lake Geneva but have embarked on a tour with several ...

GENEVA (AP) — The Latest on the U.N. migration agency’s rejection of (all times local):

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The U.N.’s migration agency has elected Portuguese Socialist Antonio Vitorino as its new leader after rejecting the Trump administration’s proposed candidate to head the body.

In a ...

GENEVA (AP) — Diplomats said Friday that Israel has temporarily reduced its participation with the U.N.’s main human rights body, days after the United States pulled out largely over its allegation that the Human Rights Council is biased against Israel.

The diplomats in Geneva, speaking on ...

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (AP) — Pope Francis says the Vatican has “not put the brakes on” the possibility of communion for the Lutheran spouses of Catholics.

On his flight back to Rome after an ecumenical visit to Geneva Thursday, Francis said he wanted to clarify that church law does allow ...