Cluster: Geopolitics

Swiss president condemns attack on Slovakian PM

Rescue workers in orange uniforms wheel Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, covered by a white sheet, into a hospital building on a stretcher.

This content was published on May 16, 2024 Viola Amherd has expressed her “deep shock” at the assassination attempt on Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico on Wednesday.

The meeting will be held on June 15 and 16 at the five-star Bürgenstock hotel above Lake Lucerne in central Switzerland.

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Ukraine peace talks: 50 countries have confirmed participation

This content was published on May 15, 2024 To date, 50 countries out 160 invited delegations have confirmed they will attend the Ukraine peace conference, held in central Switzerland in mid-June, according to Swiss public radio, RTS.

Nine Gambian plaintiffs and their relatives travelled to Switzerland for the trial against the Gambia's former interior minister Ousman Sonko, which was held at the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, canton Ticino, in January 2024.

Foreign Affairs

Swiss court convicts Gambian ex-minister for crimes against humanity

This content was published on May 15, 2024 Switzerland’s top criminal court has convicted a former interior minister of the Gambia for crimes against humanity.

Swiss police remove protestors from University of Bern.

Foreign Affairs

Swiss police clear pro-Palestinian students protesting in Bern

This content was published on May 15, 2024 Police moved in early on Wednesday to remove some 30 pro-Palestinian student protesters from a Bern university building.

International Geneva

Inside Geneva Podcast: Will we get a pandemic treaty?

This content was published on May 14, 2024 Four years after the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world, countries are gathering in Geneva to seal a pandemic treaty. Can they achieve consensus?

International Geneva

Red Cross sets up Rafah emergency field hospital

This content was published on May 14, 2024 The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and partners are opening a field hospital in southern Gaza on Tuesday.

International Geneva

Inside Geneva Podcast: is the world brave enough to agree on a pandemic treaty?

This content was published on May 14, 2024 Countries are convening in Geneva to negotiate a pandemic treaty, but is the world united enough to agree on this global pact?

Felicien Kabuga, The Hague, November 2020

Foreign Affairs

How Switzerland let an alleged mastermind of the genocide in Rwanda slip away

This content was published on May 14, 2024 In 1994 Switzerland failed to arrest one of the world's most wanted men. We look back at the case of Félicien Kabuga 30 years after the genocide in Rwanda.

Painting titled "Rwanda 1994" by Cameroonian artist Barthelemy Toguo at the show Unlimited in the context of the international art show Art Basel, in Basel, Switzerland, on Thursday, June 14, 2018.

Foreign Affairs

Genocide in Rwanda: Swiss showed ‘ambivalence between words and actions’

This content was published on May 14, 2024 Historian Thanushiyah Korn explains Switzerland's role as a key development actor in Rwanda before the 1994 genocide that claimed over 800,000 lives.

International Geneva

Geneva to host US-China talks on the risks of AI

This content was published on May 13, 2024 In many cases, China's use of AI undermines the national security of the US and its allies, according to a US government representative.

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