Switzerland

Lebanese central bank head banned from foreign travel while fraud investigations continue

A number of European representatives and diplomats yesterday visited the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem and met with Palestinian families threatened with eviction by occupation authotiries. The...

Two Swiss half-sisters, whose mother took them out of the country with her when she joined the Daesh militant group in the Middle East in 2016 have been repatriated...

The story of Liverpool footballer Mohamed Salah's rise to stardom is to be included in the national school curriculum of his native Egypt, according to a report in the Times yesterday....

The UN Human Rights Council today recognised access to a clean and healthy environment as a fundamental right, formally adding its weight to the global fight against climate hardship and...

Bahrain's Kalkidan Gezahegne won the Giants Geneva 10K in 29 minutes 38 seconds on Sunday to take five seconds off the women's world record for a 10km road race...

The United Arab Emirates yesterday sentenced a Syrian human rights activist to ten years in prison on charges of terrorism and insulting the prestige of the state. Abdul Rahman...

France's highest court on Tuesday dismissed a previous legal ruling that struck out a charge for complicity in crimes against humanity against cement firm Lafarge over its dealings in...

The trial of the former President of Kuwait's Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC), Ahmad Al-Fahd Al-Sabah, began in the Swiss city of Geneva yesterday. He is accused of forgery in an...

The Peoples' Protection Units (YPG) in north-east Syria are to open an office in Geneva, the Kurdish militia has announced. According to Turkey's Daily Sabah, the YPG is set...

Hamas officials met with a Geneva Council for International Affairs and Development (GCIAD) delegation in Istanbul to discuss the current situation in Palestine and international efforts to support justice and...

On 2 July, the UN-led Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) ended four days of talks in Geneva but failed to reach agreement on the task at hand: agreeing a...

The Syrian regime of President Bashar Al-Assad has used chemical materials imported from Switzerland to manufacture chemical weapons in 2014, the Swiss SonntagsZeitung news site reported. The site quoted...

A Swiss court ordered the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's oil minister to pay $1.5 million in a corruption case today, a decision that his lawyer said...

US President Joe Biden voiced support on Tuesday to speed up approval of the financial transfers needed to deliver more food and medicines to Iran through a Swiss humanitarian...

US prosecutors yesterday unveiled criminal charges in Manhattan accusing two Israeli traders of illegal trading in several biotechnology and healthcare companies in connection with a sprawling international insider trading...

The delivery of covid vaccines through the COVAX initiative will top the agenda of the Tunisian delegation's visit to Switzerland, a source said yesterday. The source told Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) that...

A number of Jewish community groups in Switzerland have failed to have the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, designated as a "terrorist" organisation, Arabi 21 reported on Wednesday. The...

Iranian police began an investigation into the death of the 51-year-old whose body was found at the foot of the tower block in Kamranieh a northern district of Tehran

The Swiss Turkish Society (ITT) announced on Friday that a bomb had been found in the centre's mailbox in the northern region of Rumlang. Seref Yildiz, head of the...

Lebanon's public prosecutor has launched an investigation into central bank governor Riad Salameh, a judicial source said, after a Swiss legal request alleged that more than $300 million had...

The leaders of Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriots met in Geneva yesterday to find a common ground on the divided Mediterranean island with the support of the UN, four years after the...

United Nations human rights experts today urged Switzerland to repatriate two Geneva sisters from a squalid camp in north-eastern Syria five years after the girls were allegedly abducted by...

Iran has received letters from the US through European countries and the Swiss embassy in Tehran, disclosed a senior official in Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's office. "We have not...

Switzerland has transferred 3.5 million Tunisian dinars ($1.27 million) of assets associated with former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to the Tunisian central bank, Reuters reported. The presidency said: "Following...

The United Nations has appealed for $3.85 billion to fund the humanitarian needs of Yemen in 2021. In a statement issued yesterday, the UN said it expects to provide...

A fundraising event for Yemen's humanitarian crisis is expected to take place in early March, hosted virtually by Sweden and Switzerland, four aid sources told Reuters on Sunday. A...

The great surprise occurred in Libya, and the counter-revolution was dealt a painful blow. Its men were defeated in the Libyan elections, which were held in Geneva under the...

Candidates running for the position of prime minister of the government in Libya today signed a pledge to fully adhere to hold elections at the end of the year...

The first session of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) started in Geneva on Monday to consider the list of candidates for membership of the Presidential Council in the...

A Swiss human rights organisation has called on the United Nations (UN) Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) to urge Saudi Arabia to release detained preacher...

The fifth round of the Syrian Constitutional Committee meetings are continuing for the third consecutive day in the Swiss city of Geneva, local media reported yesterday. The third day's...