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Switzerland is reaffirming its commitment to ongoing trade negotiations with the United States, aiming to formalize a deal on tariffs initially agreed last year, Economy Minister Guy Parmelin said on Friday. Speaking from Zurich, Parmelin highlighted that Switzerland will continue discussions with the United States and consult with other......
Peter Sarlin, the Finnish entrepreneur who sold artificial intelligence startup Silo AI to AMD for $665 million in 2024, has unveiled a new venture called QuTwo. The company positions itself as what Sarlin describes as “an AI lab for the quantum era,” aiming to bridge enterprise artificial intelligence systems with emerging quantum......
A tragic bus fire in Switzerland left several passengers dead and injured on Tuesday evening, local authorities reported. The incident occurred in the small town of Kerzers, located in the western part of the country. According to the Fribourg Cantonal Police, the fire broke out around 6:25 p.m. local time. Emergency services were immediately......
Swiss voters appeared set on Sunday to reject a referendum aiming to reduce funding for the public broadcaster SRG SSR. Early projections indicated that approximately 62% of voters opposed lowering the annual licence fee, a move critics warned could weaken the media landscape and increase disinformation. The proposal sought to cut the annual......
Swiss Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan has been deemed medically able to appear before the Paris criminal court where he is being tried on rape charges, according to a medical assessment ordered by French judicial authorities. The 63-year-old academic’s trial opened earlier this week in Paris, but the defendant did not attend the hearing......
Safe-haven currencies strengthened at the start of the week as investors reacted to a sharp escalation in the conflict between Iran, the United States and Israel, driving money out of risk assets and into traditional shelters. The Swiss franc rose to its strongest level against the euro since 2015, while the Japanese yen also firmed as foreign......
Global leaders and national authorities have begun issuing urgent calls for restraint after the United States and Israel launched strikes on targets in Iran and Tehran responded with its own attacks across the Middle East. The exchanges have raised fears of a much wider conflict that could destabilize the region and threaten international......
Ukrainian and US negotiators opened a fresh round of talks in Geneva on Thursday, seeking to lock in a sweeping economic “prosperity package” for Ukraine even as Russia pummeled the country with one of its heaviest overnight barrages in months. The discussions, led by Ukraine’s national security chief and chief negotiator......
Ukrainian and United States negotiators convened in Geneva on Thursday for a fresh round of talks on postwar reconstruction and the next phase of peace diplomacy, only hours after Russia unleashed one of its heaviest aerial barrages in months across multiple Ukrainian regions. Ukraine’s delegation is led by chief negotiator Rustem Umerov,......
European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde has come under renewed scrutiny after disclosing that she receives about 140,000 euros a year from the Bank for International Settlements for serving on its board, even though ECB staff rules prohibit employees from taking third‑party payments linked to their official duties. The payment,......
Defence ministers from five of Europe’s leading military powers have warned that any eventual peace agreement in Ukraine must be underpinned by binding security commitments, insisting that a simple halt in fighting would leave the country exposed to renewed Russian attack. Meeting in Krakow on 20 February, the E5 group of Britain, France,......
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says his country’s forces have retaken around 300 square kilometres of territory in the south in some of their most significant advances in months, even as efforts to secure a negotiated end to the war remain blocked. In an interview at the presidential headquarters in Kyiv, Zelensky argued that......
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Washington has not asked Tehran to halt uranium enrichment, directly contradicting repeated public statements by senior US officials who insist that Iran must abandon the activity entirely. In an interview published online Friday by MSNBC’s Morning Joe program, Araghchi stated that neither......
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