LONDON, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The head of the World Trade Organization warned the global financial downturn was throwing economies in the Third World into potentially dangerous disarray.

GENEVA, Switzerland, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- The head of the World Trade Organization said talks on the cotton market that opened in Geneva Tuesday were a key to promoting development in the Third World.

KAMPALA, Uganda, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Uganda will coordinate the World Trade Organization's African effort to advance talks to lower trade barriers, a Ugandan official said Thursday.

HANOI, Vietnam, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The World Trade Organization has formally invited Vietnam to join the global body.

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 24 (UPI) -- The World Trade Organization's effort for a global free trade deal appeared dead in Geneva, Switzerland, with African cotton farmers at greatest risk. After 14 hours of negotiations Sunday, talks reconvened Monday, only to collapse again. That is when WTO

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 24 (UPI) -- The latest report on international commerce from Switzerland's World Trade Organization says rich nation subsidies hurt global wealth creation.

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 3 (UPI) -- Failed weekend talks on the World Trade Organization's Doha treaty have threatened the entire future of the anti-poverty measure, the WTO's chief says.

GENEVA, Switzerland, July 1 (UPI) -- World Trade Organization states failed to break a deadlock on a new global trade treaty Saturday and India's trade minister left for home. The talks reached an impasse after the U.S. and other farm exporters clashed with the European Union, India and othe

GENEVA, Switzerland, April 24 (UPI) -- The head of the World Trade Organization said Monday that negotiators will miss an end-of-the-month deadline on reaching a trade pact.