UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The new U.N. envoy for Syria said Friday that the long-delayed formation of a committee to draft a new constitution for Syria is “a potential door-opener for the political process” and he hopes to see it meet in Geneva “as soon as possible.”

But Geir Pedersen stressed ...

BERLIN (AP) — Swiss prosecutors say they have closed an investigation involving the son of the president of Equatorial Guinea and two other people.

Geneva prosecutors opened the probe on suspicions of money laundering and mismanagement of public assets in 2016. They seized 25 cars in ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Nearly 30 children have died in eastern Syria over the past two months after making their way out of the last area controlled by the Islamic State group, a spokesman for the U.N. refugee agency said Friday.

Andrej Mahecic of UNHCR said in Geneva that malnourishment and ...

GENEVA (AP) — Good cop? Bad cop! Switzerland’s high court has upheld the conviction of a police officer who was fined for speeding — at nearly twice the limit — while chasing thieves who had blown up a bank teller machine in Geneva three years ago.

The Federal Tribunal confirmed a lower ...

GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office says security forces in Venezuela detained nearly 700 people in one day last week amid anti-government protests — the highest such tally in a single day in the country in at least 20 years.

Rights office spokesman Rupert Colville said Tuesday that ...

GENEVA, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago man was sentenced to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty for a fatal 2015 shooting outside a party.

Marquitte L. West of Aurora was set for a jury trial this week in Kane County Circuit Court. However, he pleaded guilty Monday to first-degree ...

GENEVA, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to 181 years in prison for child sexual abuse and assault.

Prosecutors say Kane County Judge Donald M. Tegeler Jr. on Friday sentenced 51-year-old Noel F. Buhay of Sugar Grove. Prosecutors called it “one of the longest sentences ...

GENEVA (AP) — An electrical fault triggered an explosion Wednesday near the U.S. Consulate in Geneva, police and officials said. The U.S. Embassy in the Swiss capital, Bern, issued a security alert over the blast, but no one was injured.

“The explosion was linked to an electrical junction ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The case of a missing Missouri woman hasn’t been solved in more than four decades, but her family recently regained hope after authorities discovered a possible link with an unidentified body in a nearby cemetery.

A body buried in a cemetery in Fairview Heights, Illinois, ...

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization said Friday that it’s seeing increasing reports of misconduct reported by staffers within the U.N. health agency, describing the trend as “a positive thing.”

WHO spokesman Tarik Jasarevic said at a press briefing in Geneva the agency has been ...

GENEVA (AP) — Scientists behind the world’s largest atom smasher have laid out their multibillion-euro vision to build an even bigger one, in hopes of unlocking even more secrets of matter and the universe in the coming decades.

Officials at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear ...

GENEVA (AP) — Talks have made no progress in resolving the United States’ intention to withdraw from a nuclear arms treaty, U.S. and Russian diplomats said Tuesday.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov met in Geneva with U.S. Undersecretary of State Andrea Thompson about the ...

MOSCOW (AP) — A top Russian diplomat says he and his American counterpart are set to meet Tuesday to discuss the dispute over a Cold War-era arms control treaty that Washington has threatened to abandon.

Russian news agencies quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying he would ...

GENEVA, Ill. (AP) — A suburban Chicago nurse who was held hostage and raped by a hospitalized jail inmate will receive $7.2 million in a settlement.

Four nurses with Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital sued Kane County over the hostage situation that unfolded in May 2017 when 21-year-old ...

GENEVA, Ill. (AP) — Classes will resume in the Chicago suburb of Geneva for nearly 6,000 students after teachers voted in favor of an agreement between their union and the school district.

Monday afternoon’s vote came several hours after the teachers union announced that a tentative ...

GENEVA (AP) — The outgoing U.N. envoy for Syria appealed Friday to the country’s warring sides to agree on a committee to draft a new constitution, seen as a way of bringing the Mideast nation out of its protracted civil war.

Staffan de Mistura said disagreements remain over a “few names” ...

GENEVA, Ill. (AP) — Nearly 6,000 children in the northern Illinois community of Geneva are home from school for the fourth straight day as negotiations between the striking teaches and the school board continue.

Talks are scheduled to resume Friday but a host of activities, including games ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Salvation Army says it already has collected several gold coins in the Chicago area.

The Salvation Army said in a statement that a “Gold Eagle” coin, worth about $1,200, was deposited by an anonymous donor in a red kettle at a store in Crystal Lake on Friday.

The ...

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 ...