Tom Miles

EU’s planned tobacco curbs break WTO rules, Malawi says

May 14, 2019 at 4:29 a.m.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The European Union's plans for tough new anti-smoking rules would break international trade rules, Malawi has told the World Trade Organization, signaling a potential legal challenge from...

North Korea slams U.N. “plot” to investigate its human rights record

August 24, 2021 at 5:48 a.m.

GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea condemned a threatened U.N. investigation into its alleged human rights abuses on Monday and denounced a U.N. report as "faked material ... invented by the...

North Korea threatens South with “final destruction”

August 24, 2021 at 4:33 a.m.

GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea threatened South Korea with "final destruction" during a debate at the United Nations Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday, saying it could take further steps after...

North Korea threatens South with “final destruction”

June 21, 2019 at 8:56 p.m.

GENEVA (Reuters) - North Korea threatened South Korea with "final destruction" during a debate at the United Nations Conference on Disarmament on Tuesday, saying it could take further steps after...

Global jobless to hit record 200 million this year: ILO

August 24, 2021 at 2:39 a.m.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The global jobless queue will stretch to more than 200 million people this year, the International Labour Organization said in its annual report on Tuesday, repeating a...

Is WTO about to abandon dream of global free trade?

August 24, 2021 at 2:12 a.m.

GENEVA (Reuters) - As it seeks a new chief to lead it out of a negotiating death-spiral, the World Trade Organization looks doomed to be fatally undermined by new global...

Three dead in Swiss shooting, suspect wounded, arrested

August 22, 2019 at 12:56 p.m.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Three people were killed and two wounded late on Wednesday when a gunman opened fire in the Swiss village of Daillon, Swiss police said on Thursday. The...

UBS traders charged, bank fined $1.5 billion in Libor scandal

August 24, 2021 at 12:44 a.m.

ZURICH/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors charged two former UBS traders with taking part in a multi-year scheme to manipulate Libor and other benchmark interest rates, making them the first...

UBS traders charged, bank fined $1.5 billion in Libor scandal

December 25, 2018 at 4:58 p.m.

ZURICH/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors charged two former UBS traders with taking part in a multi-year scheme to manipulate Libor and other benchmark interest rates, making them the first...

Swiss lack appetite for Barclays-style backlash against UBS

August 24, 2021 at 12:46 a.m.

ZURICH (Reuters) - Unlike the outrage that hit Barclays after the British bank was fined for rigging a benchmark interest rate, reaction in Switzerland to UBS's 1.4 billion franc ($1.53...

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