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Swiss daily NZZ am Sonntag reached out to the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) to ask about how the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan might affect security in the mountainous Central European country – but the response they received pointed to a different threat.  The Taliban’s return to power doesn’t fundamentally change …

Italy had never scored three goals at the Euro finals before their win against Turkey in their opener on Friday, but they have now repeated the trick to become the first team to qualify for the round of 16 at this year’s tournament with another performance in which they rarely …

On May 12, the head of Switzerland’s federal intelligence service (Nachrichtendienst des Bundes, NDB), Jean-Philippe Gaudin, announced his resignation. Local media reports say Gaudin’s departure stems from a falling-out with Defense Minister Viola Amherd over his handling of the Crypto AG scandal – namely, he failed to inform her about …

The riot broke out after around 1,000 young people gathered at the Roter Platz square in the city center. The agitated crowd attacked police and ambulance crews, hurling bottles, firecrackers, and pavement stones. The officers responded by launching volleys of tear gas and firing rubber bullets. Police said the rioters …

A fancy hotel on the border of the countries.One half of the hotel Arbez is located in France and one in Switzerland. Almost 170 years ago these countries were in negotiations on the demarcation of borders. Under the agreement, all existing buildings had to be preserved intact. But until a …

The Embassy of the country to represent the interests of the United States.The U.S. state Department reported that in terms of broken diplomatic relations between the US and Venezuela, a representative of American interests in the country will be Switzerland. It is noted that on the eve of Switzerland and …

Flights are operated by Swiss International. Swiss International Airlines is part of Lufthansa, from July 1, plans to increase the frequency of flights on the route Zurich-Kiev from six to seven times a week. This was reported by General Director of the airline Swiss Airlines in Ukraine Rene Koinzack. “In …

In 2018, the country was visited by 28 thousand Ukrainians. The number of tourists from Ukraine to Switzerland this year may increase by 20% – to 35 thousand people. This was announced by Director of emerging markets Office at Switzerland tourism Federico Sommaruga in his speech at the Embassy of …

Sweden has presented another surprise, having beaten in the 1/8 finals strong team of Switzerland. The key moment of the match came in the 66th minute – Forsberg broke into the penalty area and not without the aid of a deflection sent the ball into the net. Switzerland remains enough …

The Swiss team, despite the misfire in a match with Costa Rica, the seventh time reached the knockout stage of the world Cup. Strong-willed victory over Serbia virtually secured Switzerland’s place in the 1/8 finals. The team of Vladimir Petkovic taking into account the probable defeat of Serbia from Brazil …