Geneva

Investigators launched a search on Feb. 18 of British banking giant HSBC's Geneva offices as part of a money laundering probe following allegations the bank helped clients evade millions of dollars in taxes, Swiss prosecutors said.
      

BELGRADE - The Basketball Federation of Serbia (KSS) strongly opposes the admission of Kosovo to the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), KSS President Dragan Djilas and Secretary General Andrej Kleut said during a meeting they had with key people at FIBA in Munich on Wednesday.

TAROM is launching today its Dragobete [Romania's love-celebrating holiday, marked on Feb. 24] offer by selling tickets with a starting price of 99 euros for round trips, with all charges included, according to an airline's release.

Photo credit: (c) Alex Tudor / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

As UN climate negotiators gather in Geneva this week, one Japan-inspired Hungarian inventor believes he has found a revolutionary and inexpensive way to construct buildings that could slash humanity's energy needs.
      
And the magic ingredient for Matyas Gutai's invention is simple: water.
      

French newspaper Le Monde published details on a scandalous report revealing a tax evasion scheme in the Swiss branch of HSBC on Sunday.

Bulgaria is also said to have been a part of the illegal dealings with EUR 380,8 M and 74 bank customers.

Defence witness Vojin Ubiparip told the Ratko Mladic trial that Mladic always respected the Geneva Convention and Muslims leftSerb-held territory on the orders of the Party of Democratic Action, SDA, not because Serbian forces persecuted them into leaving.

One of the most important United Nations meetings on humanitarian action is set to be held in Istanbul in May next year under the title of ?World Humanitarian Summit,? marking a first of its kind.

The year 2014 was the hottest on record, "consistent" with a changing climate, the UN's weather agency said Feb. 2.
      
Average global air temperatures in 2014 were 0.57 degrees Celsius (1.03 degree Fahrenheit) higher than the long-term average of 14 C (57.2 F) in a 1961-1990 reference period, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a statement.
      

PARIS - Serbian painters and twin brothers Slobodan and Vladimir Peskirevic have officially been named Ambassadors of the Land of Impressionism, becoming the first in art history and history in general to receive such recognition.

As the originators of what the French refer to as new post-impressionism, the brothers won two top prizes in 2011.

Deputy foreign ministers from Iran, the U.K., France and Germany will gather in Istanbul on Jan. 29 to discuss Iran's nuclear program, according to an Iranian official.

Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, speaking to Iranian media, said Jan. 24's talks in the Swiss city of Zurich between representatives of the U.S. and the EU had been "constructive."