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As a result of the ongoing energy crisis throughout Europe, Switzerland is considering a ban on the use of electric cars for non-essential purposes.

England, Wales, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland have backed down on wearing LGBT armbands at the Qatar World Cup.

Senior UK government officials are considering pushing the UK back into the EU’s customs union despite the Brexit vote, reports have claimed.

Roger Federer is retiring from professional tennis at age 41 after a series of knee operations, closing a career in which he won 20 Grand Slam titles, finished five seasons ranked No. 1 and helped create a golden era of men’s tennis with rivals Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.

A Swiss court has ruled in favour of a Moroccan woman having her Swiss passport stripped after she separated from her local husband just months after getting it and remarried a Lebanese man shortly after their divorce.

Reggae musicians performing in Switzerland had their performance cancelled after fans accused white musicians of cultural appropriation.

A Swiss court has found a 28-year-old man guilty of inventing a hate crime after he carved a swastika into his own face. 

Climate, climate, climate. Billionaire globalist George Soros on Tuesday warned that mantra should be the world’s focus not Russia’s invasion of Ukraine because “climate change is on the verge of becoming irreversible.”

Swiss police officers bearing a “World Economic Forum Police” patch were filmed detaining American conservative journalist Jack Posobiec.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky compared his country to Israel in conversation with World Economic Forum (WEF) boss Klaus Schwab during a video appearance at the Davos summit in Switzerland.

(AFP) — Russian forces pursued their bombardment of frontline Ukrainian cities on Sunday, seeking to gain military momentum as Kyiv’s diplomatic counter-offensive targeted the world’s business and political elite gathering in Davos.

Famine, floods, pestilence, drought, plague, war, and rumors of war. These are the key issues facing the world today and the invitation-only World Economic Forum (WEF) next week in Davos, Switzerland, is just the place to find the answers provided by the select globalist elites, founder Klaus Schwab declared Wednesday.

A Swiss court has sentenced a 20-year-old man from North Africa to just three years after finding him guilty of raping an underage pregnant girl who had taken refuge in his home.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle joined a celebrity and world leader call to supposedly warn the world that the “pandemic is not over”.

Groups representing over half of all members of the EU Parliament called to classify Switzerland as a high-risk money laundering country.

A consortium of international journalists began reporting this weekend on the contents of a massive data leak from Credit Suisse that exposed 18,000 formerly secret bank accounts valued at over $100 billion in total.

Tibetan exiles and supporters of Tibetan freedom gathered outside Chinese embassies, Olympic headquarters, and NBC studios to protest the Beijing Winter Olympics, derided by critics as the “Genocide Games” because the event risks validating Communist China’s brutal suppression of minorities like the Tibetans and Uyghur Muslims.

A German artist hauled a 410-pound golden cube worth $11.7 million to Central Park in New York City on Wednesday. 

Europe’s security could be under threat as security scanners in sensitive spots were revealed Thursday to have been manufactured by a Chinese Communist Party-backed company.

Credit Suisse says its chairman has resigned following an internal investigation that reportedly found he had violated quarantine rules.

A 3D-printed suicide pod may be ready for the Swiss market as early as 2022, according to its designers.

On Sunday, voters in Switzerland gave clear backing to legislation that introduced a system with special COVID-19 certificates.

Redesigning organisms for other purposes is a new field of scientific endeavor known as synthetic biology. According to a report by the World Economic Forum, expect to see (and hear) more about it as scientists look to reset humanity’s future and the “bio-economy” on the back of coronavirus vaccine research.

Statistics from Switzerland have revealed that 61 per cent of men accused of killing their wives come from migrant backgrounds.

Mass demonstrations erupted across Europe on Saturday with anti-lockdown protests being staged in Vienna, Rome, and The Netherlands.

A 32-year-old Afghan migrant had been convicted by a Swiss court of sexually abusing two children but remains at large.

Just as the private jets of the global elites swarm to Davos, Switzerland, every year for the World Economic Forum, so too are they descending on Glasgow for this week’s COP26 climate conference.

A Swiss man from the city of St. Gallen is facing trial after allegedly distributing propaganda for the Islamic State terrorist group between February 2018 and October 2019.

GENEVA (AP) – Voters in Switzerland will decide Sunday whether to allow same-sex marriages in the rich Alpine country, one of the few in Western Europe where gay and lesbian couples do not already have the right to wed.

State propaganda in China has been accused of inventing a Swiss biologist to dispute the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus.

Police in Switzerland have threatened to stop enforcing coronavirus measures if the restrictions become too unpopular with citizens.

BERLIN (AP) – Hundreds of people protested Sunday in front of a Swiss appeals court that had last month reduced the prison sentence of a rapist, arguing that the rape lasted only 11 minutes and that the victim had not been severely injured, local media reported.

A Swiss PhD student has alleged that he was removed from the doctoral programme after tweeting critical sentiments about Communist China.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov insisted in remarks on Wednesday that the scheduled meeting between President Joe Biden and counterpart Vladimir Putin would yield no significant results and “cannot become historic” or result in “any breakthroughs.”

President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin met on Wednesday, kicking off their long-anticipated meeting in Geneva, Switzerland.

Switzerland has voted to increase powers to monitor terrorists, which will allow police to monitor children as young as twelve.