Cluster: Geopolitics

The Palais des Nations: A nostalgic brick and mortar journey

This content was published on Feb 22, 2022 Photographer Mark Henley reflects on the CHF836 million ($908 million) renovation of the United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG).

Foreign Affairs

Switzerland advises citizens to leave eastern Ukraine

This content was published on Feb 20, 2022 The foreign ministry has advised Swiss nationals to leave the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.

Foreign Affairs

SWISS suspends flights to Ukraine

This content was published on Feb 19, 2022 Amid further escalations of the crisis in Ukraine, Swiss International Air Lines has decided to temporarily suspend flights to Ukraine from next week.

International Geneva

Geneva worried by Kazakh plans to renovate Swiss castle

This content was published on Feb 18, 2022 A Kazakh heiress wants to renovate a Swiss castle by Lake Geneva but authorities are worried.

Foreign Affairs

Freed Swiss-Belarusian activist arrives back in Switzerland

This content was published on Feb 18, 2022 Swiss-Belarusian dual national Natallia Hersche has been freed from a Belarusian jail after 17 months.

Foreign Affairs

China censors Swiss embassy’s Weibo post on missing human rights lawyer

This content was published on Feb 18, 2022 The Chinese authorities have deleted a message on the Chinese social network Weibo that referred to disappearance of Tang Jitian.

Foreign Affairs

Swiss authorities lose trace of two jihadists in Syria

This content was published on Feb 16, 2022 The foreign ministry says it has no information on the whereabouts of two terror suspects who had been detained in northern Syria.

demonstrators clash with security forces in Khartoum

International Geneva

UN credentials: Who represents a country after a coup?

This content was published on Feb 16, 2022 Afghanistan, Myanmar and most recently Sudan have given the United Nations some headaches over who should represent the country.

Foreign Affairs

Asylum requests in Switzerland return to pre-pandemic level

This content was published on Feb 15, 2022 The number of asylum requests in Switzerland rose by 35% in 2021 compared with the previous year.

Swiss President Ignazio Cassis and Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer inspect a guard of honour in Zofingen.

Foreign Affairs

Tight security surrounds Austrian Chancellor’s visit to Switzerland

This content was published on Feb 14, 2022 Swiss state visit of Austrian Chancellor held amid tight security due to concerns of disruption by opponents of coronavirus restrictions.

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