By 2050, many homes and apartments in Switzerland may be able to generate enough solar energy to meet their own consumption needs – including the charging of electric vehicles, according to a study released Wednesday.
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Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser al-Khelaifi was charged Thursday by Swiss federal prosecutors in connection with a wider bribery investigation linked to FIFA and World Cup television rights.
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Outraged commentators warned Wednesday that revelations the CIA and Germany’s intelligence service had for decades used a Swiss encryption company for spying had seriously damaged Switzerland’s cherished reputation for neutrality.
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François hauled his heavy, expensive camera via train from Lucerne to shoot B-roll video for a large European insurance company that had an outsize presence outside of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “This thing is all bullshit,” he said.
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The Trump administration continued to belittle 17-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg at a summit in Switzerland, with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin becoming the latest U.S. official to do so Thursday.
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President Donald Trump gave a surprise press conference Wednesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he again called the impeachment trial a hoax while touting his economic record and ability to negotiate trade deals.
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At a gathering of world leaders to discuss solutions to save the planet from climate catastrophe, President Trump said nothing about global warming and called climate activists “prophets of doom.”
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As President Donald Trump strode from the helicopter through a snow-covered field surrounded by the towering Alps, reporters were less interested in his imminent speech to global leaders at the World Economic Forum and more interested in getting his thoughts on the impeachment trial.
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An internal Credit Suisse probe confirmed Monday that a second executive had been spied on, following earlier revelations that the bank’s former head of wealth management was tailed by private investigators.
Read moreThe Swiss went to the polls for parliamentary elections Sunday and while turnout was down, change was up as environmentalist parties made historic gains.
Read moreSwitzerland’s glaciers have lost a tenth of their volume in the past five years alone — a melting rate unmatched during observations stretching back more than a century, a study showed Tuesday.
Read moreThe European Union’s policy-making body said Thursday that it has removed the United Arab Emirates and Switzerland, among others, from its watch lists of countries seen as tax havens.
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Amid growing alarm over accelerating extinctions, a major international conference opened in Geneva Saturday aiming to tighten rules on trade in elephant ivory and other endangered animal and plant species.
Read moreSwiss police say two climbers have died in an accident on the upper reaches of the famed Matterhorn mountain.
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The commander of the Swiss air force’s aerial display team has apologized after his unit performed a low-altitude pass over the wrong municipality
Read moreCaster Semenya’s lawyers say the Swiss supreme court has ordered track’s governing body to suspend its testosterone regulations.
Read moreManchester City’s possible one-year ban from the Champions League is in the hands of a panel of independent judges.
Read moreAuthor Bradley Birkenfeld sued Kevin Costner and cosmetics tycoon Leonard Lauder in federal court Thursday, claiming they tortiously interfered with publication of his book, “Lucifer’s Banker: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy.”
Read moreNew research indicates that even if global warming isn’t as severe as scientists expect it will be, half the glaciers in the Alps will disappear by 2050 and two-thirds will be gone by 2100.
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