By Julia Crawford Mar 30, 2020 An alleged Liberian war criminal is expected to be tried at Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court later this year. (Keystone) With Switzerland’s first international war crimes trial in a non-military court expected to take place in coming months, Swiss NGO TRIAL International says such […]
Jessica Davis Plüss Journalist Mar 11, 2020 – swissinfo>ch Employees at the greatest risk are those who don’t have the luxury to work from home. (Keystone / Matteo Bazzi) […]
Mar 13, 2020 – swissinfo.ch Switzerland’s Supreme Court has overturned the acquittal of two Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (ICCS) leaders accused of terrorist propaganda. Islamic council president Nicolas Blancho and its spokesman Qassim Illi were accused of broadcasting propaganda videos in support of the terrorist group al-Qaeda. But they were acquitted in […]
By Matthew Allen Mar 12, 2020 – 17:41 A United States ban on travellers from Europe has been condemned as “incomprehensible” by leading Swiss manufacturing association, Swissmem. The Swiss-American […]
Switzerland as we know it developed over several centuries, emerging out of a loose alliance of autonomous entities to eventually become a more centralised federal state. Here are ten […]
Mar 4, 2020 – 15:00 This cipher machine was on the market from 1952. The export licences for Swiss encryption technology analysed by the NZZ cover 1997-2019. (Keystone / Ennio […]
By Kathrin Ammann Feb 28, 2020 – swissinfo.ch For the first time in 60 years, Switzerland has organised a state visit for a leader from Sub-Saharan Africa – Ghana’s […]
Feb 24, 2020 – swissinfo.ch Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis has warned against the anonymous nature of cyberspace and the dangers of online hate speech in his address to the […]
21st February 2020 A group of Atfal and Khuddam from Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyya Switzerland had a sitting with Hazrat Khalifatul Masih, may Allah be his Helper, on 15 February. Upon arrival, Huzooraa […]
Cantonal vote By Peter Siegenthaler Feb 11, 2020 – Many people would rather suffer in silence than risk the “shame” of asking for help. (Christof Schuerpf) Voters in canton Aargau […]
By Kathrin Ammann Feb 18, 2020 – 11:00 The war in Yemen has been raging for five years, at huge human cost. Some experts believe that neutral Switzerland, […]
By Swiss public television, SRF Feb 12, 2020 – From left to right: Sadat, Carter, Begin sign the Camp David Peace Accords between Egypt and Israel in March 1979. […]
Source: CT In an ironic and intellectually fraudulent move, Swiss government authorities assured voters that even though free speech is being curtailed it is not actually a curtailment of free speech, which according to the Swiss is an inviolable principle. In other words, they say that although there is speech […]
February 4, 2020 – TEHRAN TIMES The ministry of health welcomes every mechanism that eases supply of medicine and medical equipment using all the available capacities to […]
Jan 30, 2020 – SWISSINFO>CH A humanitarian channel to bring food and medicine to Iran has started trial operations, the Swiss government said on Thursday, helping supply Swiss goods to […]
By Riccardo Franciolli Jan 27, 2020 – http://www.swissinfo.ch Young people used to be faced with making a definitive career choice aged 15 in Switzerland. But nowadays they can change […]
The old America wanted to bring daylight to others. Now the US president believes his country should be paid to intervene militarily in the Middle East – and then paid […]
by hrbrmstr on January 21, 2020 Each year the World Economic Forum releases their Global Risk Report around the time of the annual Davos conference. This year’s report is out […]
Jan 19, 2020 – swissinfo.ch Switzerland’s largest mosque, which has been embroiled in various controversies, is to come under Swiss management. “It is time to hand over the mosque […]
I made my own tiny, pointless gesture by not going when I had the opportunity. But with globalisation in retreat and nationalism advancing, there is now more to be said […]