Switzerland

Talks that had been planned for ​Friday between the ‌United States and Iran at the Burgenstock mountaintop ​resort in Switzerland ​will not take place, ⁠according to a ​Swiss foreign ministry statement. The ​announcement came after a…

European qualifying for the 2026 World Cup finished Tuesday with Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Scotland and Austria securing the region’s remaining automatic spots. Spain was held to a 2-2 home draw at Turkey but guaranteed first place in…

Sophie Hediger, a member of Switzerland’s snowboard cross team at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, has died following an avalanche at a mountain resort, the country’s skiing federation said on Tuesday. The incident occurred on Monday at…

Five cross-country skiers who went missing during a ski tour in Switzerland were found dead, while a search was still on for the sixth skier, police said in a statement on Monday. The skiers, five of them members of the same family, went…

Switzerland’s government said on Wednesday it wants to ban Hamas after the Palestinian militant group’s attacks in Israel last year which killed nearly 1,200 people and sparked a war in Gaza. Bern said it was taking action after the…

President Ranil Wickremesinghe has returned to the island this morning following his overseas visit. The Head of State departed for Switzerland on 13 January, for an official visit in order to attend the 54th Annual Meeting of the World…

The 2023 Global Peace Index released its annual ranking of the most peaceful countries in the world. The Institute for Economics and Peace 2023 study measured a country’s level of negative peace using three domains of peacefulness: •…