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US President Joe Biden voiced support on Tuesday to speed up approval of the financial transfers needed to deliver more food and medicines to Iran through a Swiss humanitarian...
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US prosecutors yesterday unveiled criminal charges in Manhattan accusing two Israeli traders of illegal trading in several biotechnology and healthcare companies in connection with a sprawling international insider trading...
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The delivery of covid vaccines through the COVAX initiative will top the agenda of the Tunisian delegation's visit to Switzerland, a source said yesterday. The source told Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) that...
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A number of Jewish community groups in Switzerland have failed to have the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, designated as a "terrorist" organisation, Arabi 21 reported on Wednesday. The...
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Iranian police began an investigation into the death of the 51-year-old whose body was found at the foot of the tower block in Kamranieh a northern district of Tehran
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The Swiss Turkish Society (ITT) announced on Friday that a bomb had been found in the centre's mailbox in the northern region of Rumlang. Seref Yildiz, head of the...
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Lebanon's public prosecutor has launched an investigation into central bank governor Riad Salameh, a judicial source said, after a Swiss legal request alleged that more than $300 million had...
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The leaders of Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriots met in Geneva yesterday to find a common ground on the divided Mediterranean island with the support of the UN, four years after the...
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United Nations human rights experts today urged Switzerland to repatriate two Geneva sisters from a squalid camp in north-eastern Syria five years after the girls were allegedly abducted by...
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Iran has received letters from the US through European countries and the Swiss embassy in Tehran, disclosed a senior official in Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's office. "We have not...
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Switzerland has transferred 3.5 million Tunisian dinars ($1.27 million) of assets associated with former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to the Tunisian central bank, Reuters reported. The presidency said: "Following...
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The United Nations has appealed for $3.85 billion to fund the humanitarian needs of Yemen in 2021. In a statement issued yesterday, the UN said it expects to provide...
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A fundraising event for Yemen's humanitarian crisis is expected to take place in early March, hosted virtually by Sweden and Switzerland, four aid sources told Reuters on Sunday. A...
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The great surprise occurred in Libya, and the counter-revolution was dealt a painful blow. Its men were defeated in the Libyan elections, which were held in Geneva under the...
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Candidates running for the position of prime minister of the government in Libya today signed a pledge to fully adhere to hold elections at the end of the year...
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The first session of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) started in Geneva on Monday to consider the list of candidates for membership of the Presidential Council in the...
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A Swiss human rights organisation has called on the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to urge Saudi Arabia to release detained preacher...
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The fifth round of the Syrian Constitutional Committee meetings are continuing for the third consecutive day in the Swiss city of Geneva, local media reported yesterday. The third day's...
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Lebanon's caretaker foreign minister has asked Switzerland to investigate his country's Central Bank Governor in secret. Charbel Wehbe made his request in a meeting with the Swiss ambassador to...
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In a landmark verdict in one of the mining world's most high profile legal cases, a Swiss criminal court found Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz guilty of corruption and forgery...
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Swiss officials have opened an investigation into Lebanon’s central bank governor over allegations of money laundering.
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The 2021 World Social Forum (WSF) events will discuss the Palestinian issue at length. The event will be online, with activities from 23 January to 31 January of the...
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Iran has accused the US of harassing Iranian representatives of international organisations based in the US, including the United Nations (UN). Spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Saeed Khatibzadeh...
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Acting Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (ASRSG) Stephanie Williams confirmed that no progress had been made regarding the mechanism for selecting members of the new executive authority to...
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Beny Steinmetz, Israeli-French mining tycoon, yesterday appeared in a Swiss court over corruption claims that he paid millions of dollars to Guinean officials for mining franchises, international news agencies...
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November 30, 2020
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Yvonne Ridley
Around half a million French people took to the streets over the weekend urging President Emmanuel Macron's government to abandon legislation which would stop the publication of photographs or...
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Talks on the Libyan crisis being held in Switzerland and Morocco are designed to exclude renegade General Khalifa Haftar, former US presidential aide, Jeffrey Feltman, announced yesterday. In a...
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Switzerland is considering banning the Iranian-backed Shia group, Hezbollah, after the country's federal council agreed last week to review a report investigating the group's activities within its borders. The application...
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US Special Envoy for Syria James Jeffrey will pay a visit to Switzerland and Turkey to discuss latest efforts for the resolution of the Syrian conflict, the State Department...
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The United States on Friday said it was imposing visa restrictions on 13 Iranian individuals for their involvement in "gross violations of human rights" regarding a 1990 assassination of...
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A Swiss pharmaceutical company has completed the first transaction under a new humanitarian trade channel with Iran, the government announced yesterday. "We would like to emphasise that the operationalisation...
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The paper said the princess, who is known for advocating for women’s rights and political reform in the kingdom, has been detained in Al-Hayer prison for the past year