Swiss medical researchers have announced the discovery of a new strain of tuberculosis that is highly resistant to drugs, found in asylum seekers arrived in Europe from Africa.
Switzerland has moved a step closer to breaking free of the European Union (EU) after the government allowed proponents of a campaign to curb immigration to start canvassing public support for a referendum.
President Donald Trump plans to bring an enormous group of administration officials with him to the Davos World Economic Summit in January.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin rebuffed a reporter’s portrayal of Davos as a “hangout for globalists” during Thursday’s White House press briefing.
A new civil rights act has come into force in Switzerland that prevents residents who have been on welfare in the past three years from becoming citizens unless they pay back the money they received to the state.
“The president welcomes opportunities to advance his America First agenda with world leaders,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told the New York Times.
A poll has revealed that a large majority of Swiss citizens would be “disturbed” if the country’s Muslim population were to increase.
The government of the Swiss city of Geneva have effectively banned the Islamic swimwear known as the Burkini.
Prosecutors in Switzerland won’t bring charges against French-Polish filmmaker Roman Polanski after five more women accused him of sexual assault and child molestation.
PARIS (AP) — Ten people suspected of using encrypted social networks to prepare a possible attack were arrested Tuesday in counterterrorism operations in France and Switzerland, according to French officials.
GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss government says voters will decide whether to ban face-covering garments like masks or Muslim burqas and niqabs.
The Swiss Federal Prosecutor’s Office (BA) has claimed that an Iraqi migrant named Osamah M. who was found guilty of heading an Islamic state terror cell in Schaffhausen, Switzerland was approached by authorities to take care of asylum seekers. Paraplegic Osamah M.
Swiss national Barbara Schwager, 56, faces potential prison time in Switzerland after she smuggled her 27-year-old illegal migrant boyfriend out of Switzerland to avoid his deportation back to Pakistan. The 56-year-old claims that she wants to marry her much younger partner Nadeem Akram
Swiss national councillor Simonetta Sommaruga has revealed that the problem of asylum seekers arriving into the country with no papers is so extensive that the government does not know the true identities of nine out of 10 migrants.
A Left-wing Swiss politician has been sentenced in court for illegally smuggling 24 African migrants into the country.
Switzerland’s legislature has voted to ban the foreign funding of mosques, including from Saudi Arabia, as well as to force mosques to use local languages instead of Arabic or other foreign tongues.
The people of the canton of Zürich, Switzerland, have voted to greatly reduce failed asylum seeker social benefits which could see the canton save as much as 10 million Swiss Francs (£7.6 million).
GENEVA (AP) — Federal prosecutors in Switzerland on Thursday announced indictments of the leader of a prominent Swiss Islamic group and two other top members over alleged al-Qaida propaganda videos posted on YouTube. Contacted by phone in Bangladesh, one of the suspects rejected the case as “politically motivated.”
The biggest grouping of politicians in the European Parliament has run into embarrassment after releasing a video which appears to claim that Zurich, Switzerland, and the city-state of Monaco are inside the European Union.
GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s attorney general has announced the indictment of a Swiss woman suspected of trying to reach Syria to join the Islamic State group with her four-year-old child in tow.
The operator of a Swiss hotel has apologized after posting special signs for “Jewish guests,” including one telling them to shower before entering the swimming pool.
A man is on the run after attacking people with a chainsaw in the town of Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
If it seemed like two of the worst mayors in the world had become the front-runners to host the 2024 Olympics, that’s because they have.
As negotiations in Brussels stumble on the question of EU migrants and the European Court’s powers over Britain after Brexit, a former judge has accused the bloc of “judicial imperialism”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lauded the leaders of Switzerland and the Netherlands on Wednesday following their decisions to halt funding for Palestinian NGOs involved in incitement.
Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has penned a blistering op-ed targeting the controversial U.N. Human Rights Council. She uses her toughest language yet and slams the body as a “haven for dictators” ahead of a visit to its headquarters in Switzerland next week.
U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley announced Tuesday that she will travel to Israel after first addressing the notoriously anti-Israel Human Rights Council in Geneva – a body which the U.S. boycotted in March.
BERN (AP) – Swiss voters are supporting a referendum to withdraw the country from nuclear power in favour of renewable energy. A projection from Sunday’s referendum shows a majority of cantons (states) voted for the plan. Under Switzerland’s direct democracy system,
GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland’s government says it will temporarily limit the number of workers from European Union member states Bulgaria and Romania who can access Swiss jobs, after an influx from the countries in recent months. The Federal Council’s decision
(AFP) — The organizers of a protest in Switzerland where some demonstrators held a banner urging the assassination of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will not be charged, media reports said on Monday. Kurdish groups and left-leaning Swiss political parties
PARIS (AFP) – France on Saturday expelled controversial Swiss Islamist preacher Hani Ramadan who posed “a serious threat to public order”, the interior ministry said. Ramadan, whose brother is the intellectual Tariq Ramadan and whose grandfather founded Egypt’s radical Muslim Brotherhood, was
GENEVA (AP) — After a near-90 year ban, women can again swim topless legally in Geneva’s lake and Rhone River without running the risk of a fine.
ISTANBUL (AFP) – Turkey summoned the Swiss ambassador on Sunday to protest at a Kurdish rally in Bern which Ankara dubbed a “terrorist gathering”, a diplomatic source said.
GENEVA (AP) — An Italian train derailed in the central Swiss city of Lucerne on Wednesday and one carriage tipped over, injuring seven people on board.
TEL AVIV – Israel is the 11th-happiest country in the world, beating the United States (14th), Germany (16th) and the UK (19th), according to the UN’s 2017 World Happiness Report, released Monday.
BASEL, Switzerland (AP) — Gunmen opened fire inside a cafe in the Swiss city of Basel on Thursday, leaving two people dead and a third critically wounded, authorities said.
Four people from Ghana living in Italy have been arrested for smuggling around 200 migrants across the Italy-Switzerland border.
Voters in Switzerland decided Sunday to make it easier for young “third-generation foreigners” to get Swiss citizenship, agreeing to extend to about 25,000 people under age 25 access to the fast-track process now available to foreign spouses of Swiss nationals.
Iran does not have direct diplomatic relations with the United States, so it fell to Swiss Ambassador to Iran Giulio Haas to hear Tehran’s complaints about President Donald Trump’s immigration executive order. Entry to the United States is halted for Iranians for 90 days under the order.
Bern (AFP) – Switzerland’s economy minister said Sunday he wants to have “background” talks with Britain so that a trade deal can be in place as soon as the UK leaves the European Union (EU). “My objective is clear. Not
