Switzerland News

February 15, 2019

Swiss cancer research yields breast-saving fat, better detection

The incidence of breast cancer in Switzerland is relatively high, but some local research offers hope – especially the finding that cancer cells can be converted into friendly fat. A recent study from the University of Basel found a way…
February 15, 2019

Wabco car systems manufacturer moves HQ to Switzerland

Car systems manufacturer Wabco Automotive has opted to move its global headquarters from Brussels to the Swiss capital, Bern. The company has plans to set up a competence centre in autonomous driving in collaboration with Swiss universities. “Switzerland is world-renowned…
February 15, 2019

Police force’s Tesla fleet drives into problems

Canton Basel City’s new fleet of seven Tesla electric police cars has hit another bump along an increasingly pot-holed road. A parliamentary commission in the northern canton has ruled that the cars were bought “unlawfully” because public tender rules were…
February 15, 2019

UN seeks $920 million aid for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

The United Nations on Friday called for $920 million in aid for around a million Rohingya taking shelter in Bangladesh after bloodshed in Buddhist-majority Myanmar. About 740,000 of the Muslim minority fled to Bangladesh as a result of a military…
February 15, 2019

Switzerland boosts Rohingya aid efforts

Switzerland will contribute an extra CHF10 million ($10 million) towards easing the plight of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. This brings total Swiss financial aid to CHF30 million as international humanitarian groups try to raise $920 million. Some 900,000 Rohingya refugees…
February 15, 2019

Letting Venezuela chair world disarmament body would be ‘travesty’: US

The United States urged countries Friday to block Venezuela’s upcoming chairmanship of the Conference on Disarmament, insisting that having a representative of President Nicolas Maduro preside over the body would be “a travesty”. US Ambassador Robert Wood addressed the Geneva-based…
February 15, 2019

UN envoy says seeking ‘door-opener’ for Syria peace

The new UN envoy for Syria said Friday he was striving to create a committee on drafting a post-war constitution that could hopefully open the way to a peaceful end to the conflict. Norwegian Geir Pedersen, who last month became…
February 15, 2019

Pioneering aerial photographer Georg Gerster dies

Georg Gerster, the Swiss aerial photography pioneer whose images often look like abstract paintings, has died aged 90.  Born in Winterthur near Zurich in 1928, Georg Gerster studied languages before serving as the science editor of the Weltwoche news magazine from…
February 15, 2019

Immigration to Switzerland continues to rise

The number people moving into Switzerland rose again last year, taking the foreign population further above two million. Figures released by the Federal Statistical Office on Friday showed net immigration of European Union (EU)/European Free Trade Association (EFTA) citizens rose…

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