Cluster: Geopolitics

How manipulated Swiss tech shaped world politics

Sadat, Carter, Begin firmaron el acuerdo de paz de Camp David

This content was published on Feb 12, 2020 Camp David, Iran, Argentina, Panama: These are just a few examples of how the US steered world politics with the help of Swiss firm Crypto.

Foreign Affairs

Investigation opened into Swiss encryption firm linked to CIA

This content was published on Feb 11, 2020 The Swiss government has opened an investigation into a decades-old spying affair involving Swiss firm Crypto.

Opinion

International Geneva

Shadow boxing a virus

This content was published on Feb 11, 2020 There is much we still don’t know about the new coronavirus. Meanwhile, an anxious world fills the knowledge vacuum with rumour, and misinformation.

Inside Geneva: How to deal with coronavirus?

This content was published on Feb 11, 2020 Global health experts are increasing their efforts to contain its spread – as well as any rumours about the disease.

Medical staff transfer patients to the newly completed Huoshenshan temporary field hospital in Wuhan

International Geneva

WHO director defends Chinese over coronavirus criticism

This content was published on Feb 6, 2020 The new coronavirus is an epidemic with “many battlefields”, but it can be stopped via the drastic measures being imposed, says a WHO director.

Foreign Affairs

How do Swiss arms end up in conflict zones?

This content was published on Feb 4, 2020 How have arms found their way from neutral Switzerland, a country that likes to underline its humanitarian tradition, to conflict countries?

Ghassan Salame, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General

International Geneva

UN envoy reports positive start to Libya talks in Geneva

This content was published on Feb 4, 2020 Rival Libyan military factions are meeting in Geneva to secure a “lasting ceasefire”, said UN envoy Ghassan Salamé on Tuesday.

Foreign Affairs

Federer to play in South Africa for first time

This content was published on Feb 3, 2020 Swiss tennis star Roger Federer, who has South African citizenship, is set to play Rafael Nadal in a charity match on Friday.

Boy with cancer in hospital with his mother

Foreign Affairs

Tehran remains cautious about Swiss humanitarian channel

This content was published on Feb 3, 2020 Iran has downplayed the political importance of a Swiss humanitarian channel to bring food and medicine to the struggling population.

Foreign Affairs

UN rapporteur: Assange being set up to be ‘burnt at the stake’

This content was published on Jan 31, 2020 In an interview with news outlet RepublikExternal link, Melzer delivered a damning indictment of the legal and political systems in the United States, Britain, Sweden and Ecuador. “It is obvious that what we are dealing with here is political persecution,” he said. “The case is a huge scandal and represents the failure of Western rule…

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