PARIS (AFP) — An appeals court in Paris has upheld a decision by judges to keep Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan in jail while he is being investigated on rape charges brought by two women, a legal source told AFP on Thursday.
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says switching to the type of education and workforce development policies embraced by countries such as Switzerland, the Netherlands, and the U.K. would “help catch us up” to students in other countries.
A 56-year-old Swiss woman who was arrested and convicted of trying to smuggle her failed asylum seeker lover into Switzerland has now married him in an “Islamic ceremony” in hopes he can remain in Europe. Barbara Schwager married 27-year-old Pakistani
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is heading to Europe on a whirlwind tour designed to seek funds for Tehran as it continues to oppose the U.S. decision to drop the 2015 nuclear accord.
A Swiss centre for processing failed asylum seekers had claimed to have lost track of 60 percent of the migrants awaiting deportation, who they say have simply disappeared.
A Pakistani taxi driver in Switzerland accused of crimes including abduction has been given a short jail sentence for the rape and sexual assault of six passengers.
An unemployed Muslim migrant from Tunisia has been found guilty of child abuse after having sex with a 15-year-old Swiss girl who the man is said to have “married” during Ramadan in 2016. The 40-year-old Tunisian is said to have
The Islamic headscarf is compatible with the Swiss army dress code, Federal Councilor Guy Parmelin has told local media, confirming reports that a hijab-wearing Muslim is enrolled in Switzerland’s school of recruits for the first time.
ZÜRICH — In Zürich for his first public appearance since leaving Breitbart News, Steve Bannon addressed a sold-out arena of more than 1,500 people on Tuesday evening as hundreds of demonstrators protested not far away. A brigade of 200 police
ZÜRICH — Stephen K. Bannon took Zürich by storm Tuesday, addressing a sell-out crowd on the future of international populist nationalism, calling the movement “unstoppable” and “only at its beginning stages.” Citing recent examples from Italy, Poland, Hungary, Austria and France,
The Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (IZRS) has defended the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), claiming that Islamic law justifies the practice.
Foreigners now account for 80 per cent of prison inmates in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, according to Franz Walter, director of prisons in Bellechasse.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel reduced a secret gathering of journalists to “uproarious” laughter as she recounted the British prime minister’s clueless approach to Brexit negotiations during the Davos meetings last week, in claimed remarks that come shortly after President Trump also said he thought May was handling Brexit badly.
“No, I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist. I mean, I think that would be, maybe, going too far. I’m for women, I’m for men, I’m for everyone,” Trump said in the interview, according to Morgan.
Billionaire speculator and social activist George Soros came out swinging at Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos Thursday, accusing the U.S. President of trying to turn the country into a “mafia state.” “I find the current moment
“Each of you has the power to change hearts, transform lives, and shape your countries’ destinies,” he said. “With this power comes an obligation, however, a duty of loyalty to the people, workers, customers who have made you who you are.”
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin caught markets off guard this week by telling the truth about the dollar.
President Donald Trump took the opportunity of being at the Globalist World Economic Forum Davos meeting Thursday to meet and speak with British Prime Minister Theresa May, praising the close bond between the nations and looking forward to mutual jobs growth from increasing trade.
Former British prime minister and ardent anti-Brexit campaigner David Cameron was caught on camera Wednesday admitting Brexit had not lived up to his fears, as he spoke to fellow attendees of the globalist World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland.
White House National Security Adviser Gen. H.R. McMaster declined to say whether he was planning to leave Donald Trump’s administration.
President Donald Trump thanked CNN’s Jim Acosta, after he spotted the CNN report that his administration was celebrating a shutdown victory.
The annual meeting of globalist elites at the Swiss ski resort Davos got off to an unintentionally ironic start this week as delegates including 60 heads of state and hundreds of top business leaders found themselves severely delayed by snow storms.
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.”
