Cluster: Geopolitics

ICRC worker’s body returned to Switzerland

This content was published on Oct 9, 2014 “We are still in shock over the death of Laurent Du Pasquier,” said Dominik Stillhart, director of operations at the Swiss-run International Committee of the Red Cross, at a press conference in Geneva. A farewell ceremony will be held for the slain Swiss ICRC worker in Neuchâtel on Friday. His death on October 2 was the second…

Foreign Affairs

Wartime ‘people smugglers’ finally feted as heroes

This content was published on Oct 8, 2014 The Swiss and French who defied the Nazis by smuggling weapons, microfilm and Jews finally have a memorial in their honour.

Foreign Affairs

The 1994 Solar Temple cult deaths in Switzerland

This content was published on Oct 5, 2014 Solar Temple gained worldwide notoriety between September 1994 and March 1997 when the burnt bodies of 74 of its members were found in Switzerland, Canada and then France. On October 5, 1994, 23 bodies were discovered in a burnt-out farm in canton Fribourg. Another 25 bodies were found in canton Valais. Several had been shot…

Foreign Affairs

War on all sides

This content was published on Oct 4, 2014

Businessman who bribed Gaddafi’s son sentenced

This content was published on Oct 2, 2014 A Tunisian-Canadian businessman who bribed the son of the Libyan ex-dictator, Moammar Gaddafi, for work contracts has been sentenced by a Swiss court. The man had personally profited to the sum of around CHF40 million ($38.2 million). The Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona handed down the sentence as the defendant had used a bank account…

Foreign Affairs

Swiss support UN on foreign fighters

This content was published on Sep 25, 2014 Switzerland has given its backing to a UN Security Council resolution on foreign terrorist fighters. The move, which was co-sponsored unanimously by more than 100 member states, does not give authorisation for the use of military force. It means Switzerland has agreed to tackle so-called home-grown terrorists, who head to conflict zones to fight for…

Foreign Affairs

Ukraine: Gorbachev warns of escalating conflict

This content was published on Sep 18, 2014 Gorbachev was the seventh and last leader of the Soviet Union. His policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) led to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 “for his leading role in the peace process which today characterises important parts of the international community”. He…

Foreign Affairs

Swiss authorities looking into 20 jihad cases

This content was published on Sep 15, 2014 Of those, four have ties to the conflict in Syria, with the rest involved in other jihadist conflicts or in the dissemination of terrorist propaganda, often from within Switzerland. According to the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, some of the 20 cases being investigated involve more than one person accused of supporting terrorist organisations.The office also said…

Foreign Affairs

Swiss pledge more support for Ukraine mission

This content was published on Sep 10, 2014 Switzerland has pledged more funds and observers to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) monitoring mission in Ukraine.

Foreign Affairs

Burkhalter ‘not optimistic’ about Ukraine ceasefire

This content was published on Sep 8, 2014 Burkhalter, who holds the rotating chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), was asked on Monday whether he was optimistic about the ceasefire clinched between Ukrainian government forces and pro-Russian separatists. “I’m not optimistic at all. I’ve not been optimistic at all since the beginning,” he told the Swiss foreign correspondents…

Cluster: Geopolitics

Popular Stories

Most Discussed

Cluster: Geopolitics

More

ICRC worker’s body returned to Switzerland

More

Wartime ‘people smugglers’ finally feted as heroes

More

The 1994 Solar Temple cult deaths in Switzerland

More

War on all sides

More

Businessman who bribed Gaddafi’s son sentenced

More

Swiss support UN on foreign fighters

More

Ukraine: Gorbachev warns of escalating conflict

More

Swiss authorities looking into 20 jihad cases

More

Swiss pledge more support for Ukraine mission

More

Burkhalter ‘not optimistic’ about Ukraine ceasefire

Popular Stories

Most Discussed