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Panorama of Bern, Switzerland, where voters rejected a population cap referendum

Switzerland Rejects the Hard Right’s Plan to Cap Its Population at Ten Million

Swiss voters rejected the Swiss People's Party's initiative to cap the population below ten million, a measure framed as sustainability but aimed at immigration and the country's free-movement ties with the EU.

June 16, 2026

by Europe Desk

Swiss financial district Zurich as Russia sanctions tighten under EU alignment

Swiss Banks Are Quietly Writing Their Own Sanctions Rules — and Russians Are Paying for It

Russia's ambassador in Bern says Swiss financial institutions are applying anti-Russian sanctions far beyond their legal scope, effectively cutting ordinary citizens off from transfers, travel, and even parcels. The complaint surfaces a deeper contradiction: Switzerland's own Supreme Court has simultaneously

June 14, 2026

by Russia Desk

NASA Quickbird satellite high-resolution image of downtown Zurich Switzerland showing the city centre along Lake Zurich with the Limmat River and the Bahnhofstrasse commercial district

Switzerland Votes Sunday on the SVP’s ‘No to a Ten-Million Switzerland’ Population Cap; gfs.bern’s Final Tracker Puts the No Camp at Fifty-Two Percent in the Country’s ‘Brexit Moment’ Referendum

Switzerland's electorate is voting Sunday on the Swiss People's Party's 'No to a Ten-Million Switzerland' initiative,

Zurich and New York City skylines illustrating global cost of living differences in 2026

Cost of Living Index by City 2026: Zurich Still World’s Most Expensive Urban Center, Americans Feel the Squeeze

The 2026 Cost of Living Index by City is no longer a lifestyle curiosity or an expatriate planning tool. It has matured into a hard economic signal, one that policymakers, institutional investors,

January 27, 2026

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California wealth tax targets Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin

California Moves to Tax Google Founders Amid Wealth Inequality Debate

California has introduced a groundbreaking wealth tax aimed at billionaires, with the state’s legislature explicitly targeting tech magnates, including Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. The proposal, set against the backdrop

January 10, 2026

Business·News

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World Condemns ‘Barbaric’ US Military Strike and Forced Abduction of Venezuelan President Maduro

Caracas awoke to the thunder of explosions and the whine of helicopter blades cutting through the tropical night on Saturday, as members of America’s elite Delta Force unit executed what US President

January 4, 2026

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Israeli naval team boards the Marinette at night as activists hold up their hands

Gaza Genocide day 667: Israel seizes Gaza flotilla boat, deportations begin as new convoy gathers

ASHDOD, Israel—The last boat in a weeks-long civilian convoy to Gaza, an aging trawler renamed Marinette, was seized at sea before dawn on Friday, capping an Israeli naval operation that organizers call

November 9, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Nestle CEO Laurent Freixe dismissed after secret affair with subordinate

Nestlé scandal erupts as CEO Laurent Freixe fired for secret romance with subordinate

Switzerland — Nestlé has dismissed its chief executive, Laurent Freix, after just one year in the role, citing his failure to disclose a romantic relationship with a direct subordinate, the Swiss food

September 2, 2025

Business·News

Apple worker in US manufacturing plant, representing $100 billion reshoring investment

Apple’s $100 billion lifeline: Reshoring to slay Trump’s tariff dragon

Apple has responded to Donald Trump’s brutal 100% semiconductor tariffs with an announcement that shocked Wall Street and Washington alike, a $100 billion domestic investment designed to protect its global empire and

September 12, 2025

Business·Economy·Government and Politics·News

President Karin Keller-Sutter and Economy Minister Guy Parmelin at Zurich Airport leaving for Washington to negotiate U.S. tariff deal

Switzerland scrambles to salvage trade ties as US imposes harsh 39% tariffs

Zurich — Switzerland’s top leadership is in crisis mode after the United States abruptly slapped a punishing 39 percent import tariff on Swiss goods, sparking fears of a looming economic hit to

August 5, 2025

Economy·News

Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf at UN-IPU summit in Geneva, Iranian parliament speaker, former Tehran mayor,

Iran’s Qalibaf attends UN-IPU summit in Geneva, condemns Israel for Gaza genocide

Geneva — Iran’s parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, arrived in Switzerland on Sunday to attend the Sixth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament, transforming the multilateral gathering into a bold political stage

July 30, 2025

Conflicts, Military and War·News

Roche pharmaceutical building, Alzheimer’s disease, brain scan, experimental drug, blood-brain barrier, trontinemab, brain shuttle technology, clinical trial

Roche launches late-stage trial to prevent Alzheimer’s disease symptoms

Basel, Switzerland — Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche is preparing to launch a pivotal late-stage clinical trial to test whether its experimental drug, trontinemab, can prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s disease symptoms in

July 28, 2025

Health·News

Ibrahim Traoré resists Western looting of African resources by Glencore and global corporations

Glencore’s African Empire: Exploitation, Corruption, and the New Scramble for Africa

In the shadows of Africa’s mineral empires – from Congolese cobalt fields to Nigerian oil terminals, Glencore operates like a colonial power in a business suit. Backed by Swiss banks, aided by

September 12, 2025

Economy·Reports

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Switzerland Rejects the Hard Right’s Plan to Cap Its Population at Ten Million

Swiss Banks Are Quietly Writing Their Own Sanctions Rules — and Russians Are Paying for It

Switzerland Votes Sunday on the SVP’s ‘No to a Ten-Million Switzerland’ Population Cap; gfs.bern’s Final Tracker Puts the No Camp at Fifty-Two Percent in the Country’s ‘Brexit Moment’ Referendum

Cost of Living Index by City 2026: Zurich Still World’s Most Expensive Urban Center, Americans Feel the Squeeze

California Moves to Tax Google Founders Amid Wealth Inequality Debate

World Condemns ‘Barbaric’ US Military Strike and Forced Abduction of Venezuelan President Maduro

Gaza Genocide day 667: Israel seizes Gaza flotilla boat, deportations begin as new convoy gathers

Nestlé scandal erupts as CEO Laurent Freixe fired for secret romance with subordinate

Apple’s $100 billion lifeline: Reshoring to slay Trump’s tariff dragon

Switzerland scrambles to salvage trade ties as US imposes harsh 39% tariffs

Iran’s Qalibaf attends UN-IPU summit in Geneva, condemns Israel for Gaza genocide

Roche launches late-stage trial to prevent Alzheimer’s disease symptoms

Glencore’s African Empire: Exploitation, Corruption, and the New Scramble for Africa

Radical Islam is being appreciated by Indian authorities too

Bangladesh; India’s Biggest Ally or China’s Dragon Nest?

Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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