JEDDAH — The Saudi Cabinet, led by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz, has approved the establishment of branches for UBS AG Bank of Switzerland in Saudi Arabia.
This decision was part of a session that also emphasized (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman will patronize the World Economic Forum (WEF) Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth, and Energy for Development on April 28 and 29 in Riyadh.
More than 1000 global leaders, (...)
Canadian police said the heist is not just about gold, but "how gold turns into guns"
The arrests that followed a "sensational" gold heist have shed light on the illegal gun trade between the US and Canada.
Thousands of gold bars worth C$20m (...)
The United States on Thursday blocked a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have recognised a Palestinian state.
Twelve members of the Security Council had voted in favor of the resolution, while two countries – the UK and (...)
Canadian police have made arrests and issued nine warrants in the largest gold theft in the country's history.
More than 6,500 gold bars worth C$20m (£11.6m), were stolen from Toronto Pearson Airport, in April 2023, along with millions in cash.
The (...)
A draft Russia-Ukraine agreement negotiated in 2022 could serve as a starting point for prospective talks to end the fighting in Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Friday.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that the draft document that was discussed (...)
An international court in France on Tuesday ruled Switzerland's failure to adequately tackle the climate crisis was in violation of human rights, in a landmark climate judgment that could have a ripple effect across the globe.
The European Court of (...)
The Foreign Office should be abolished and replaced by a new Department for International Affairs with "fewer colonial era pictures on the wall", a group of former senior diplomats and officials has said.
They have written a pamphlet proposing (...)
Iran has vowed to retaliate after it accused Israel of bombing its embassy complex in Syria on Monday, in a deadly escalation of regional tensions over the war in Gaza that once again appeared to raise the risk of a wider Middle Eastern (...)
Ukraine's foreign minister arrived in New Delhi on Thursday for a two-day visit to boost bilateral ties and cooperation with India, a time-tested Russian ally from the Cold War era.
Dmytro Kuleba will meet with his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam (...)
Germany aims to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2045, despite being one of Europe's biggest polluters.
The powerhouse economy is also the third largest in the world after the US and China, however, Gross Domestic Profit shrank 0.3 percent in (...)
Records were once again broken for greenhouse gas levels, surface temperatures, ocean heat and acidification, sea level rise, ice cover and glacier retreat, a new global report issued by the UN weather agency (WMO) on Tuesday shows.
Heatwaves, (...)
Swiss voters have given themselves an extra month's pension each year — in a nationwide referendum focusing on living standards for the elderly.
The government had warned that the increased payments would be too expensive to afford.
But almost 60% (...)
The Cabinet, chaired by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman Tuesday in Riyadh, reiterated the Kingdom's support for regional and international efforts to ban all forms of weapons of mass destruction.
The backing comes following its (...)
At least two civilians were killed and eight others were wounded in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson provinces on Sunday as Russian shelling and rocket strikes continued to pummel Ukraine's south and east.
A woman was wounded and a railway station (...)
GENEVA — Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan reaffirmed Saudi Arabia's position of supporting the right to benefit from outer space for peaceful purposes.
"Outer space is for the public and is not owned by anyone, and hence no one (...)
RIYADH — Swiss contestant Stephanie Weil claimed a $1 million prize, equivalent to SR3.75 million, in the final competition of the Riyadh Season Treasure Hunt, held at Boulevard City.
The contest saw thousands of participants from around the globe (...)
Police in Switzerland have shot dead a man armed with an axe and a knife who took 15 passengers hostage on a train on Thursday night.
The hostage-taker, reported to be a 32-year-old asylum seeker from Iran, boarded a local train near Yverdon.
He (...)
Nuclear fusion has produced more energy than ever before in an experiment, bringing the world a step closer to the dream of limitless, clean power.
The new world record has been set at the UK-based JET laboratory.
Nuclear fusion is the process that (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Minister of Investment Eng. Khalid Al-Falih emphasized that his country is striving to become an attractive destination for global capital.
Addressing a Saudi-Swiss round table meeting in Riyadh on Monday, he highlighted the Kingdom's (...)
Researchers at the world's biggest particle accelerator in Switzerland have submitted proposals for a new, much larger, supercollider.
Its aim is to discover new particles that would revolutionize physics and lead to a more complete understanding of (...)
An extraterrestrial visitor now lives at UN headquarters in New York: a precious piece of the Moon.
The rock joins a host of other fascinating objects on display, from a machine gun fashioned into a guitar to a semi-curdled bronze statue that (...)
On the night of June 1, 2019, a grey Renault Koleos pulled up outside Geneva's Museum of Far Eastern Art.
Three men wearing ski masks, dark clothing and gloves got out and walked up the steps to the solid, wooden front door.
Dotted across four (...)
DAVOS — The Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan met with his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, on Wednesday.
This meeting took place on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum 2024 in Davos, (...)
The US military launched new strikes against Houthi targets inside Yemen on Tuesday, targeting anti-ship ballistic missiles controlled by the Iran-backed group, two US defense officials told CNN on Tuesday.
US forces struck and destroyed four Houthi (...)