Swiss glacier melt exceeds average in 2024 after hot summer
ZURICH - Swiss glaciers melted at an above-average rate in 2024 as a blistering hot summer thawed through abundant snowfall, monitoring...
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New Swiss central bank chief takes charge in shadow of Credit Suisse trauma
ZURICH - As the Swiss National Bank's new chairman Martin Schlegel takes office this week, the jury is out on the central bank's handling...
Aug 293 min
Swiss court convicts two executives over $1.8 billion 1MDB fraud
BELLINZONA, Switzerland - The Swiss Federal Criminal Court convicted on Wednesday two executives at an oil exploration company for...
Aug 292 min
Swiss banker says super-rich tax proposal is 'nuclear bomb' for Switzerland
ZURICH - A tax on the super-rich pitched by the youth wing of one of Switzerland's main political parties is "extremely dangerous" for...
Aug 231 min
Ukraine says it hosts first follow-up to Swiss peace summit
KYIV - Ukraine said representatives of more than 40 countries and international organisations took part in a meeting on Thursday to...
Aug 162 min
Sudan peace talks begin in Switzerland despite army's no-show
CAIRO - Talks aimed at ending Sudan's shattering 16-month-old civil war began on Wednesday in Switzerland although the absence of the...
Aug 32 min
Olympics-Shooting-Leone keeps women's rifle 3 positions gold in Swiss hands
CHATEAUROUX, France - Switzerland's Chiara Leone ensured Olympic gold in the women's 50-metre rifle three positions remained in her...
Jul 123 min
UN-brokered Sudan ceasefire talks begin with one party no-show
GENEVA/UNITED NATIONS/CAIRO - Sudan's warring parties are in Switzerland for U.N.-led talks aimed at brokering possible local ceasefires...
Jul 102 min
Congo UN peacekeepers pausing pullout, no timeline for next phase
KINSHASA - The U.N. peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo will pause its withdrawal, with no timeline set for the next...
Jul 102 min
UN probing reported mass grave on Libya-Tunisia border
GENEVA - The U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday that his office was following up on reports of a mass grave in the desert along the...
Jul 32 min
UN seeks aid for Sudan refugees fleeing to Libya, Uganda
GENEVA - The U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday it is expanding its Sudan aid plan to Libya and Uganda, after a surge in arrivals in...
Jun 173 min
Ukraine summit sees hard road to peace as way forward uncertain
BUERGENSTOCK, Switzerland - Western powers and their allies at a summit in Switzerland denounced Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Sunday,...
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