Sports
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World
7/22/2023 10:06:36 PM
Switzerland striker Noah Okafor is the latest addition to AC Milan’s summer spending spree.
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Sports
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World
7/19/2023 2:11:52 PM
Burnley signed Switzerland striker Zeki Amdouni from Basel for an undisclosed fee on Wednesday.
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World
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Region
7/8/2023 11:18:20 AM
The U.N. Security Council is to vote Monday on extending aid deliveries from Turkey to Syria’s rebel-held northwest, with a resolution sponsored by Brazil and Switzerland calling for a 12-month extension and a rival Russia resolution limiting a renewal to just six months.
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Sports
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World
7/6/2023 8:58:09 PM
Bayer Leverkusen has brought Switzerland midfielder Granit Xhaka back to the Bundesliga from English Premier League side Arsenal.
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Antiquities
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Ancient Egypt
7/4/2023 3:12:58 PM
More than 30 years after its theft, Switzerland handed back to Egypt on Monday a fragment of a 3,400-year-old statue of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II.
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World
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International
7/2/2023 5:14:11 PM
Six teenagers were arrested following unrest in the Swiss city of Lausanne inspired by the riots in France, Swiss police said Sunday, after more than a hundred youths damaged shops in the city centre.
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World
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War in Ukraine
6/26/2023 8:19:57 PM
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has made Switzerland, the home of several international organisations, a hub for Russian and Chinese espionage, the Swiss intelligence service said Monday.
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World
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International
6/12/2023 1:16:58 PM
Switzerland's federal administration was under cyberattack on Monday, blocking access to the websites of several authorities and state-linked companies, the finance ministry said.
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World
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Region
6/8/2023 4:19:04 PM
A Swiss delegation will visit Lebanon as part of investigations into central bank chief Riad Salameh, a judicial official said Thursday, as European legal pressure mounts on the top banker.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
6/4/2023 9:30:13 PM
Locarno Film Festival has started the process of restoring Egyptian director Yousry Nasrallah’s 2004 film Bab El-Shams (“The Gate of Sun”).
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
5/24/2023 1:41:18 PM
Egypt's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry is heading to Geneva, Switzerland, to consult with several international organizations on bilateral cooperation and regional issues, read an official statement on Wednesday.
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World
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Region
5/15/2023 2:20:19 PM
The Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan went on trial at a Geneva criminal court Monday charged with "rape and sexual coercion", allegations which the former Oxford University professor denies.
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World
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War in Ukraine
4/11/2023 12:07:42 PM
Switzerland insisted Tuesday it was clamping down on Russian assets parked in the country, after other countries accused the Swiss of not going far enough.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
3/23/2023 2:21:47 PM
Europe's stock markets opened lower Thursday before interest rate calls in Britain, Norway and Switzerland, after the US Federal Reserve hiked borrowing costs despite banking-sector turmoil.
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World
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Region
3/20/2023 4:02:54 PM
Yemen's Huthi rebels and the internationally recognised government have agreed at talks in Switzerland to swap more than 880 prisoners, both sides said Monday as efforts accelerate to end the war.
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Business
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Markets & Companies
3/19/2023 8:23:22 PM
Banking giant UBS is buying its smaller rival Credit Suisse for $3.2 billion in an effort to avoid further market-shaking turmoil in global banking, Swiss President Alain Berset announced on Sunday night.
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Business
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Economy
3/18/2023 1:41:16 PM
Troubled Credit Suisse has two days to reassure before the markets open Monday with the specter of a new turbulent week in global finance looming.
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World
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International
3/13/2023 9:37:05 AM
Diplomats from nearly 200 nations and top climate scientists begin a week-long huddle in Switzerland Monday to distill nearly a decade of published science into a 20-odd-page warning about the existential danger of global warming, and what to do about it.
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World
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Region
2/23/2023 5:30:37 PM
Switzerland's ambassador to Iran on Thursday faced accusations of betraying the women-led protest movement after she wore all-enveloping black Islamic dress on a visit to a holy shrine alongside clerics.
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Business
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Economy
2/7/2023 1:36:47 PM
Egyptian Minister of Trade and Industry Ahmed Samir said on Tuesday that Egypt and Switzerland have distinguished trade and investment relations, with the volume of trade exchange between the two amounting to $994 million in 2022.
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