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The 228.31-carat stone was expected to reach $30 million or more.
Neither side characterised the meeting as a complete failure.
Seán Lester was the last Secretary General of the League of Nations and tried to help Joyce as he fled the Nazis.
It would cost around €1.3 million for Ireland to join as an associate member of Cern.
Mick McCarthy has some big calls to make after Saturday’s frustrating stalemate against Georgia.
The Swiss FA say the 27-year-old is ready to make himself available once again. The upcoming double-header will come too soon, however.
The Swiss are top seeds in Euro 2020 Group D and will face the Boys in Green on 15 October.
These expenses do not not cover the cost of travel, hotel, taxis, telephone or car parking.
The rectangular-cut diamond has been graded “fancy vivid” – the highest possible grade of colour intensity.
The Boys in Green will discover their group for the newly-formed tournament on Wednesday morning.
Homeless children, suicide rates and Direct Provision should all be discussed in Geneva today.
He was taken into custody in Geneva on foot of an international arrest warrant.
Ireland faced a second day of questioning at UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva.
The Justice Minister defended the State redress scheme for survivors of symphysiotomy at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva today.
The State is appearing before a United Nations committee to hear concerns over human rights in Ireland.
Some people travel across the French border to do their weekly shop.
Before you read on, bear in mind that Geneva tops the world’s Club Sandwich Index.
The man “said he felt threatened in his country” and wanted to seek asylum in Switzerland.
The alarming estimate comes as a government and opposition negotiators wrap up talks in Switzerland today.
UN security guards have had to step in on occasion as reporters fling slurs and abuse across press room.
Opposition forces wants a transitional government to be formed, but Assad’s regime says his role in not up for debate.
The delegations were due to meet yesterday, brought together by the United Nations.
Yesterday UN mediator Lakhdar Brahimi shuttled between two rooms as each delegation were set apart.
The report by three former war crimes prosecutors, based on thousands of photos smuggled out of the country, accuses Syria of large-scale killing and torture. (Note: graphic content).
The main Syrian opposition has warned it will not attend this week’s talks if Iranian government representatives show up.
The brutal conflict has killed 130,000 people and made millions homeless since 2011. Talks are set to get under way next Wednesday.
Statistics for 2011-12 show a dramatic increase over the 171 priests removed in 2008 and 2009.
The hearing came as Pope Francis said all Catholics should feel “shame”, in an apparent reference to sexual abuse.
It follows the easing economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for steps to curb its nuclear programme.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday that Iran had baulked at a proposed deal just as world powers were set to sign up to it.
Israel and the West say Iran’s nuclear programme is aimed at developing an atomic bomb, but Tehran says it is for peaceful purposes only.
The G8 nations pledged almost €1.1 billion in humanitarian aid for refugees inside and outside Syria.
A Frenchman who is believed to have been one of the actual robbers was arrested in France, while some of the diamonds have been found in Switzerland.
“The preliminary results… are magnificent,” one CERN physicist said.
Around 140 countries decided on the deal after all-night talks in Geneva.
The Archduke Joseph Diamond with 76.02 carats fetched €221,619 per carat.
Bars and restaurants will still be allowed to have separate rooms for smokers where they can be served.
This is the fifth time the UN Human Rights Council has called an urgent meeting regarding Syria
Dublin is the seventh cheapest of all the cities surveyed by Hotels.com with an average club sandwich price of €12.
Satellite imagery and other credible reports show that, despite its claims, Syria has failed to withdraw all of its heavy weapons from populated areas.