A Swiss regional government said Wednesday it was ready to pay compensation to a son of Libyan leader Moamar Kadhafi in a step to ease a diplomatic spat with Libya over his 2008 arrest. The government of the Geneva canton confirmed it had lodged a court application on Tuesday about the affair which caused Libya to impose sanctions and arrest ...

The U.N.'s top human rights official criticized Israeli and Palestinian authorities on Wednesday for failing to properly investigate alleged war crimes last year in the Gaza Strip. A U.N.-appointed expert panel led by South African Judge Richard Goldstone recommended in September that Israel and ...

TUNIS (Reuters) - A top Libyan official on Wednesday welcomed as a "step forward" a call by Swiss officials for damages to be paid to a son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi who was arrested in Geneva in 2008. Relations between Libya and Switzerland broke down after Hannibal Gaddafi and his wife were held briefly on charges, later dropped, of abusing ...

An Egyptian-born magnate behind a recent sale of huge West African and Iraqi oil interests to China pledged 20 million Swiss francs to expand Geneva's art and history museum, authorities said Friday. Addax chief Jean Claude Gandur's donation (18.6 million dollars, 13.6 million euros) would double other private and public funding to revive a planned modern ...