Swiss News

Swiss coach Vladimir Petkovic today said his World Cup squad might not be the best individuals, but who complemented each other best as he unveiled his final 23.

The 37-year-old "Swiss Miss" has retired twice before -- once after testing positive for a metabolite of cocaine -- but she said the ongoing WTA Finals in Singapore will be her last tournament.

The Swiss was ranked third in the world in July, but has slipped to ninth following his injury layoff.  

Al-Khelaifi is also president of French club Paris Saint Germain. Valcke, who was in charge of the day-to-day running of Swiss-based global soccer body FIFA, is also under investigation.

In a Bizarre Development here at the 72nd Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the Pakistan Government has accused the Swiss Government of supporting terrorism.

Geologists had recently noticed significant movement along the "tongue" of the Trift glacier, up to 130 centimetres in a single day, local authorities said.

Citing Switzerland as one of the oldest democracies and India as the largest democracy in the world, Kovind recalled signing of a treaty of friendship between the two nations in New Delhi in August 1948.

About 120 emergency workers equipped with infrared cameras and mobile phone detectors, helicopters and rescue dogs had been scouring a five-square-kilometre area of the disaster.  

The avalanche occurred on Wednesday in the alpine village of Bondo whose 100 residents were promptly evacuated, after which the main road was closed off, reports Efe news.

Former Gambian interior minister Ousman Sonko has been in pre-trial custody since January after the Geneva-based legal group Trial International filed a criminal complaint accusing him of having personally taken part in torture.  

The risk of extremist attacks in Switzerland remains elevated, the Swiss spy agency said on Tuesday.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu met with his Swiss counterpart Thursday after having to call off a campaign appearance amongst diaspora voters, in a bitter row between Ankara and Europe.  

Switzerland has agreed to extradite to Spain a woman convicted there of supporting the Basque separatist group ETA, rejecting her claim that she was tortured into confessing while in Spanish custody.

Switzerland has rejected a Turkish request for legal assistance in prosecuting a suspect accused of insulting President Tayyip Erdogan, ruling that the comments in question were protected by Swiss free speech provisions.

The so-called Panama Papers scandal erupted in April, when media outlets around the world published details of murky offshore financial dealings gleaned from 11.5 million leaked documents from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca.

Belinda Bencic was another Swiss tennis star to have pulled out of the Olympics.

Final results in the referendum showed 76.9 percent of voters opposed the initiative to provide an unconditional, basic income (UBI) to each Swiss national, along with foreigners who have been legal residents for at least five years.

The Swiss voted on Sunday on a radical proposal to provide the entire population with enough money to live on.

"Thank you all for coming, and I hope you enjoyed this match tonight," said Djokovic after demolishing Federer.

Federer can become the oldest Grand Slam champion in 44 years, if he lifts his fifth title this January.