JAMEY KEATEN

Chief newsperson, Geneva

Keaten is the chief Associated Press reporter in Geneva. He previously was posted in Paris and has reported from Afghanistan, the Middle East, North Africa and across Europe.
From left, Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar pose for a photo, ahead of a meeting to discuss the future of stalled peace talks over the divided island of Cyprus at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (Pierre Albouy/Keystone via AP)
UN chief praises new talks on reviving the peace process for divided Cyprus
 
Sara Hossain, Chair of the Iran Fact-Finding Mission, speaks during a press conference about the launch of the Iran Fact-Finding Mission's latest report, at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, March 14, 2025. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
UN report warns Iran is stepping up electronic surveillance of women to enforce headscarf laws
 
Chris Sidoti, Member of the Commission, speaks during a press conference about the launch of the latest report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
UN report accuses Israel of sexual violence against Palestinians. Netanyahu claims anti-Israel bias
 
Member of the Commission, Chris Sidoti, looks on during the 56th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)
UN-backed rights experts hear Palestinians’ allegations of abuse in Israeli custody during the war
 
Tetyana Bobina and her daughter Aleksandra receive humanitarian aid provided by UN World Food Program and ADRA charity organisation for the residents of the region and internally displaced persons at the distribution center in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka, File)
From staff cuts to aid reductions, UN humanitarian agencies scramble in wake of US funding freeze
 
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, attends a meeting with United States Vice-President JD Vance on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Zelenskyy calls for ‘armed forces of Europe’ as EU leaders bristle at new US policies on Ukraine
 
Swiss aviation pioneer Bertrand Piccard touches Climate Impulse, a plane powered by liquid hydrogen, at the press presentation of the project in a hangar in Les Sables d'Olonne, France, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Yohan Bonnet)
Innovators gear up work on ‘green’ hydrogen plane with plans for nonstop 9-day trip around Earth
 
FILE -People carry an injured protester in a cycle rickshaw to a hospital after he was shot at by the police during a protest against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her government, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Aug. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Rajib Dhar), File)
UN rights office estimates up to 1,400 killed in crackdown on protests in Bangladesh
 
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks to journalists during a press conference at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 6, 2023. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)
WHO chief asks countries to push Washington to reconsider its withdrawal
 
President of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde speaks during a plenary session in the Congress Hall during the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. (Michael Buholzer/Keystone via AP)
As elite Davos event ends, some hail ‘constructive optimism’ despite divisions, suffering in world
 
Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez speaks at the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Spain’s leader wants the EU to ‘make social media great again.’ Here’s how
 
US President Donald J. Trump is shown on screens as he addresses via remote connection a plenary session in the Congress Hall, during the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (Michael Buholzer/Keystone via AP)
Trump tells Davos elite to invest in US or face tariffs
 
U.S. president Donald Trump is seen on a screen during his virtual speech at the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Davos 2025: Trump leaves an impression with his video address to the World Economic Forum
 
Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, speaks during a plenary session in the Congress Hall during the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP)
Davos 2025: Trade, tariffs, AI and UN chief Guterres dominate World Economic Forum agenda
 
Greenpeace activists show a poster during a protest at the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
As Davos 2025 reacts to Trump tack, EU chief leads defense against climate change
 
Demonstrators arrive for a protest ahead of the World Economy Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
Billionaires’ wealth soared in 2024, anti-poverty group says as the elites prepare for another Davos
 
Deciding to skip President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, outgoing President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump depart Washington en route to his Mar-a-Lago Florida Resort, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Jan. 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
World Economic Forum says Trump to take part virtually in Davos meeting, days after inauguration
 
Donald Trump Jr., center, smiles after arriving in Nuuk, Greenland, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (Emil Stach/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)
Donald Trump Jr. arrives in Greenland with a message from his dad: ‘We’re going to treat you well’
 
Austria's President Alexander Van der Bellen addresses the media during a news conference at the presidential office, in Vienna, Austria, Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Heinz-Peter Bader)
A far-right leader could soon take the helm in EU member country Austria. Here’s why it matters
 
This photo provided by Humany Society International shows a fox inside a cage at a fur farm in western Finland, in late October, 2024. (Humany Society International/Oikeutta Elaimille via AP)
Activists release images of foxes at Finnish fur farms to push EU to ban the trade
 
EDS NOTE: NUDITY - Activists of the feminist group Femen protest to support Ukraine and to demand Russia's expulsion from the UN, under the 'Broken Chair' Monument on Place des Nations in front of the European headquarters of the United Nations (UN) in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Dec. 13, 2024. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
Topless women protesting the Ukraine war are detained for vandalizing sculpture near UN building
 
Tom Fletcher, under-secretary-general for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, talks to the media during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)
New UN aid chief vows ‘ruthlessness’ to prioritize spending as funding for world’s crises shrinks
 
FILE - Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), speaks during the panel discussion at the WTO's Presidential Lecture Series, at the headquarters of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Nov. 1, 2024. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)
Okonjo-Iweala given 2nd term as WTO chief as Trump’s return looms over trade body’s future
 
An experimental art installation with an AI Jesus entitled, Deus in Machina, installed in a confessional in St. Peter's Chapel in the old town of Lucerne, Switzerland, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024. (Urs Flueeler/Keystone via AP)
‘AI Jesus’ avatar tests man’s faith in machines and the divine
 
FILE - A 'suicide pod' known as 'The Sarco' is seen in Rotterdam, Netherlands, July 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahmad Seir, File)
Creator of ‘suicide capsule’ rejects Swiss allegation that its first user may have been strangled
 
FILE - The symbol of the United Nations is displayed on the main gate outside UN headquarters, Feb. 24, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
The United Nations faces uncertainty as Trump returns to US presidency
 
A view of the village of Brienz, Switzerland, on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024. (Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP)
Swiss villagers pack up for evacuation over fears of another rockslide
 
Labor Minister Moustafa Bayram speaks at the International Labor Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday Nov. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Jamey Keaten)
Lebanon files complaint against Israel at UN labor body over deadly pager explosions
 
FILE - Mohamed Chande Othman, chair of the of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission, presents its first investigative report to the media during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)
Head of UN-backed team of experts cites paramilitary force in Sudan for sexual violence as war rages
 
FILE - Israeli soldiers take position as they enter the UNRWA headquarter where the military discovered tunnels underneath of the U.N. agency that the military says Hamas militants used to attack its forces during a ground operation in Gaza, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)
Israel must step in if it bans the UN agency that is a lifeline for Gaza, UN says
 
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