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Friday, November 14, 2025
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Topic: Switzerland

Climate change activists glue themselves to road to Alpine tunnel, halt traffic

The group said it wanted the Switzerland government to take climate change seriously and renovate the country's buildings by 2035.

Germany asks Switzerland to sell mothballed Leopard 2 tanks to increase military aid to Ukraine

Germany, Poland, Portugal, Finland and Sweden are among countries sending tanks to help Ukraine defend itself against Russian attack, creating gaps in their own arsenals.

Threatened by war, Ukrainian paintings find safe haven in Switzerland

According to the Director of the Kyiv National Art Gallery, Yuri Vakulenko, this arrangement would allow paintings to be in a 'safe place' while the gallery fights 'on the cultural front'.

Swiss government ‘keen’ on India-European Free Trade Association agreement to be signed this year

The agreement has been in the works for 15 years & Switzerland's state secretary, Helene Budliger Artieda, will be in India Tuesday, for the 2nd time this year, for the negotiations.

Swiss prosecutors appeal acquittal of ex-FIFA president Blatte, former UEFA chief Platini

Switzerland's Federal Criminal Court had cleared the two in July after a seven-year investigation in which both were booted out of the sport.

Putin’s attack on Ukraine means Russia’s rich aren’t welcome at Davos anymore

It will be the first WEF in Switzerland since the fall of communism without a single Russian official or business leader.

Muslims didn’t damage property in Kolkata, viral video is from a brawl in Switzerland

Video is from 2018 when violent clashes had erupted between Swiss fans supporting two rival football teams — FC Luzern and FC Basel.

‘Unite Eva with Fuhrer’: Campaign urges the Swiss to give up Putin ‘lover’ Alina Kabaeva

Citizens of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine are signatories to the petition that say ‘Putin’s favourite mistress and her three children’ are hiding in Switzerland.

SpiceJet ‘admitted debt liability’, says HC on Credit Suisse winding-up plea. Airline to appeal

Madras HC has ordered winding up of SpiceJet Ltd over non-payment of $24 million in dues to Credit Suisse AG. But order kept in abeyance to allow SpiceJet time to deposit $5 million.

Chinese papers quote Swiss biologist to support Covid origin study, embassy says he doesn’t exist

The Swiss embassy said it has no registry of any citizen named Edwards Wilson, who has been quoted by several Chinese papers on reports about the origin of coronavirus.

On Camera

Virat, Anushka, Bumrah selling sarias & cement, dentists, vets, Bihar walls painted in ‘rurbanisation’

Over generations, Bihar’s bane has been its utter lack of urbanisation. But now, even Bihar is urbanising. Or let’s say, rurbanising. Two decades under Nitish Kumar have created a new elite in its cities.

Wealth nears $99 trillion, still Asia’s rich don’t have succession plans

Much of this wealth is tied to founder-led businesses that employ millions and help anchor regional economies.

Turkey blocks transport of Apache choppers to India through its airspace, new route being worked out

Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.