Switzerland

Turkiye has withdrawn from hosting the United Nations' Cop16 biodiversity summit in 2024, citing three large earthquakes in February that devastated parts of the country, Reuters reports. According to the report,...

Riad Salameh faces charges of money laundering and fraud in Lebanon and six European countries including Switzerland and France.

A century ago, on July 24, countries around the world acknowledged Turkiye as an independent and sovereign nation with the historic signing of the Lausanne Peace Treaty at the...

A sixty-five-year-old Irish activist, who set off to Palestine from Calais to raise awareness about the plight of refugees and human rights violations in the Occupied Territories, reached the...

Russia yesterday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution aimed at extending cross-border aid delivery to Syria from Turkiye through the Bab Al-Hawa border crossing. The move blocks millions of...

The UN Security Council yesterday postponed a vote to renew a cross-border mechanism that allows the use of the Bab Al-Hawa border crossing through Turkiye to deliver humanitarian aid...

Switzerland returned to Egypt a fragment of a 3,400-year-old statue of the pharaoh Ramses II on Monday, which was stolen more than 30 years ago. This "important archaeological asset"...

Switzerland's ambassador to Turkiye has confirmed that criminal investigations have been launched against demonstrators who burned an effigy and picture of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Swiss...

Demonstrators at a women's protest in Switzerland directed their anger at Turkiye's President Erdogan whose effigy was burnt and hung from a noose outside UBS bank. Activists say they are opposed to the bank's support of the Turkish military, and that they ' stand side by side with the women & gay people fighting oppression in Turkey, Kurdistan and everywhere'.

The Syrian opposition's Negotiation Commission yesterday called for the resumption of direct talks with the Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad, under UN auspices. "The international, regional and Syrian...

Anyone who supports Palestine and is vocal about the injustices suffered by the Palestinians living under Israel's brutal military occupation should be ready to be targeted and vilified by...

The city of Geneva has decided to ban a Palestinian exhibition that highlights the suffering of Palestinian prisoners inside Israeli jails, Israeli media reported yesterday. According to Ynet News, this came following pressure from the Israeli Embassy in Switzerland...

Switzerland's public prosecutor has charged two managers of the Saudi oil exploration company, Petro-Saudi, with commercial fraud, aggravated criminal mismanagement and aggravated money laundering as part of a major...

Diplomatic missions in Sudan, on Wednesday, called on rival forces to cease fire and observe obligations under international law to protect civilians, diplomats and humanitarian actors following a days-long...

The implementation of the prisoner exchange deal began in Yemen on Friday, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Anadolu News Agency reports. "Today, the process...

Switzerland went on to beat Israel 3-0 in the Euro 2024 qualifiers

Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud, agreed to meet with his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, soon in order to pave the way for the reopening...

Saudi Arabia's investment in Credit Suisse is almost wiped out and is expected to lose $1.5 billion, the Wall Street Journal has reported. Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman directed...

Saudi Arabia and Yemen's Houthi rebels have agreed to the release of almost 900 prisoners, with over a dozen being Saudis detained by the Houthis and most being those...

The Swiss government announced on Friday that it would ease the sanctions imposed on Syria since 2011 to support the work of humanitarian organisations providing assistance to the population...

The United Nations will ask crisis-strained donors on Monday to come up with $4.3 billion to finance this year's aid plan for Yemen, one of the world's top humanitarian...

Some countries just seem to be doomed from the start, and Syria looks like one of them. With a family of dictators at the helm, an ongoing civil war,...

Turkiye summoned ambassadors of nine Western countries, including the United States and Sweden, on Thursday to criticise their decision to temporarily shut diplomatic missions and issue security alerts following...

Protesters gather in front of Swedish Embassy in Bern, urge Swedish authorities to take necessary action against perpetrators

An Iranian drone shot down in Ukraine last year was found to contain parts made by 13 US companies, according to a Ukrainian intelligence report obtained by CNN. The...

A demonstration in Geneva following the suicide of an Afghan refugee after the local court ordered his deportation

Tunisia's former President Hammadi Jbali is facing a Tunisian court to explain a potential link between himself and Youssef Nada and Ghaleb Hemmet, two men who obtained Tunisian passports...

A group of international bodies have signed a $6.2 million project to support Egypt's presidency of COP27. In November, heads of state, ministers, journalists and more will gather in...

Islamophobia remains a growing threat across Europe, with several countries enacting policies that have contributed to the institutionalisation of an issue that should, instead, be stamped out with urgency,...

Algeria yesterday launched a campaign to promote its candidacy for a non-permanent seat at the United Nations Security Council for the term 2024-2025. Elections are due to be held...

The ambassadors of 11 Western countries and the European Union delegation in Khartoum yesterday accused the military rulers in Sudan of retreating from cooperating with the International Criminal Court...

Syrian Peace Talks scheduled in Geneva this month on a new Constitution for Syria have been cancelled, UN Syrian Envoy, Geir Pedersen, announced, Reuters reports. According to the report,...