Switzerland

WHO boss: Turkey a strong healthcare champion in 2021

WHO Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus and Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca agree on enabling vaccine production globally without making intellectual property rights an issue.

UN confirms top Saudi official threatened Khashoggi investigator

In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, UN expert Agnes Callamard said a Saudi official threatened to have her "taken care of" if she was not reined in by the UN over her investigation into the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

CERN data on ‘beauty quarks’ behaviour may rewrite physics as we know it

Beauty quarks or B mesons particles are not decaying as they should and while the findings may warrant “cautious excitement”, more research needs to be done, scientists say.

Swiss hacker charged in US for fraud and identity theft

Prolific Swiss computer hacker Till Kottmann had stolen credentials, private records and proprietary information from dozens of companies and government agencies, according to US authorities.

Swiss Turkish society’s head accuses PKK sympathisers of attacking home

The head of the Switzerland’s Turkish community group ITT, Seref Yildiz, says he is considering moving as attacks have become a cause of worry for his children.

UN revises up world economic growth forecast to 4.7% for 2021

Global recovery that began in third quarter of 2020 is expected to continue through 2021, says UN Conference on Trade and Development.

Roger Federer makes winning return in Qatar after being out for 13 months

The Swiss great had not played a match since a semi-final defeat by Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open in January 2020, 405 days ago.

Switzerland bans burqa and niqab, hurting its Muslim minority

A narrow majority of Swiss backed a face veil ban in Sunday’s controversial referendum, dealing a massive blow to religious freedom.

Novak Djokovic sets new record as World No.1 for the longest time

Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic breaks Roger Federer's record for most weeks as the men's top number one, and plans to win many more Grand Slams.

Swiss voters narrowly back controversial proposal to ban face coverings

About 51.21 percent of voters supported the controversial proposal to ban 'full facial coverings' in public, while 50.8 percent were against it, the official results showed.

Swiss vote on banning face veils in referendum criticized as Islamophobic

Although the proposal "Yes to a ban on full facial coverings" does not mention the burqa or the niqab — there is no doubt what the debate concerns amid a campaign by some of the country's politicians to assign labels for Islam and its followers.

Muslims campaign against Swiss referendum on banning face veils

Opinion polls suggest a majority of Swiss will back the face veil ban, while campaigners argue that it’s about Islamophobia and controlling women in the public sphere.