https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday called for a united global effort to tackle the Syrian refugee crisis, as he opened a conference on securing resettlement places for nearly half a million of those displaced. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160330/geneva-un-meet-aims-to-tackle-refugee-crisis Wed, 30 Mar 2016 15:05:01 +0200 geneva-un-meet-aims-to-tackle-refugee-crisis The Islamist militant onslaught in Iraq raises the spectre of a sectarian conflict spilling across the embattled nation's borders, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned in Geneva on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140617/un-chief-warns-iraq-crisis-could-spread Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:02:00 +0200 un-chief-warns-iraq-crisis-could-spread United Nations chief Ban Ki-Moon stated on Saturday that the world body would be prepared to broker peace talks between Syria's regime and opposition. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130303/un-offers-to-facilitate-syria-peace-talks Sun, 03 Mar 2013 11:52:53 +0100 un-offers-to-facilitate-syria-peace-talks UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Friday that the escalating conflict in Syria, which has claimed some 70,000 lives in the past two years, was breaking the country apart. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130302/ban-syria-dissolution-in-sight Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:32:00 +0100 ban-syria-dissolution-in-sight