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#HRC34: UN Secretary-General promises to speak out against rights abuses

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has opened the 34th Human Rights Council with a personal pledge to speak out against abuses.

Switzerland

Syria war: Kurdish hopes for Geneva peace talks

We want Syria to be neutral, a home for all.

Switzerland

Slow progress: UN-led peace talks on Syria on shaky ground

Progress has been slow, after two days of UN-led Geneva peace talks on Syria.

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Switzerland

Syrian opposition calls for direct talks with Assad regime in Geneva

Syrian opposition delegates have for the first time called for face-to face talks with government representatives ahead of negotiations which begin today in…

Sport

Shiffrin wins third straight slalom world title

American Mikaela Shiffrin cemented her status as the slalom queen after winning the world title in the discipline for a third consecutive time.

Sport

Hirscher seals giant slalom world title, as low-flying plane slices camera cable

Austria’s Marcel Hirscher won giant slalom gold at the Alpine skiing world championships on Friday after a delay caused by a Swiss air force plane slicing through an overhead television camera…

Business Series

Credit Suisse announces big losses, more job cuts

Credit Suisse says its 2016 losses were 2.44 billion Swiss francs, it plans to cut up to 6,500 more jobs this year.

Sport

French flair wins team gold at Alpine world championships

Mathieu Faivre anchored France to gold at the Alpine skiing World Championships in the Team Event at St Moritz.

Sport

Alpine skiing: Aerni wins shock gold at Worlds

Luca Aerni handed host nation Switzerland their third title from six races at the World skiing championships in St.

Sport

Alpine skiing: Stuhec and Feuz strike world championships gold

Ilka Stuhec became the second successive Slovenian to win the downhill title at the Alpine skiing world championships.

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Swiss vote on citizenship rights and tax breaks

Switzerland is holding a referendum on making it easier for people born in the country to become citizens. It is opposed by a right-wing party.

Switzerland

Swiss prepare to vote in citizenship referendum for third-generation immigrants

Switzerland heads to the polls this Sunday for a nationwide referendum on whether to make naturalisation for third-generation immigrants easier.

Sport

Holdener wins Alpine combined gold as compatriot Gut suffers season-ending injury

The Swiss team enjoyed mixed emotions on home snow at the World Championships in St Moritz on Friday.

Sport

Uefa's Executive Committee approve governance reforms

The way European football’s administrative body Uefa is governed could be about to change after a set of reforms were approved by the organisation’s executive committee this…

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Erik Guay wins Super-G Gold

Canadian Erik Guay produces a stunning run to take Super-G gold

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Geneva art fair 2017

The Geneva Art Fair, or Artgenève is an art exhibition, which aims to establish an artistic platform in French-speaking Switzerland.

Sport

UCI celebrates first successful Snow Bike Festival in Gstaad

Fed up of fighting with the traffic? Take to the slopes as the UCI holds its first ever Snow Bike Festival.

Sci-Tech

A transplant operation of cartilage from the nose could bring help to people who suffer knee problems

Swiss doctors have reported that cartilage cells harvested from patients’ own noses have been used to successfully produce cartilage transplants for the treatment of the knees of 10 adults with damage