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Ander Herrera and Thiago Alcantara scored the goals as Spain beat Switzerland 2-0 on Saturday to win the European Under-21 championship. Spain, dominant...

Switzerland has found 360 million Swiss francs ($415.8 million) of potentially illegal assets linked to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his circle stashed in...

PESHAWAR - The Swiss high-level delegation called on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Governor Barrister Masood Kausar at the Governor's House on Saturday and informed him about the efforts of the government and the people of Switzerland for ensuring socio-economic uplift programmes. The delegation led by Swiss Development Corporation Director General Martin Dahinden consisted of the South Asia Division head and the Swiss Ambassador in Pakistan, Christopher Bubb besides others.
The

QUETTA - A Swiss national was detained for traveling by road without proper documents in Loralai on Sunday. Levy officials told Pakistan Today that a Swiss citizen identified as Merco, who entered Pakistan from Iran via the Taftan border, was traveling by road on the main Loralai-Dera Ghazi Khan Road. Levies personnel took the foreigner into custody for not having valid permission from the Balochistan Home Department.
Afterwards, he was shifted to Quetta and is being interrogated

ZURICH - Swiss voters, upholding their national tradition of an ever-ready citizen army, on Sunday rejected a proposal to ban army firearms from their homes, following an emotional debate on the subject. Provisional results of Sunday's vote showed that 57 percent voted against tightening the rules on army firearms in a country where many see keeping a weapon at home as a crucial element of national identity.
The vast majority of Swiss men liable for military service store their

LAHORE - Swiss Ambassador to Pakistan Christoph Bubb has said that his government is committed to further strengthen Pakistan-Switzerland trade relations. The Swiss ambassador was speaking at Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Friday. LCCI President Shahzad Ali Malik, Senior Vice President Sheikh Mohammad Arshad and Vice President Sohail Azhar also spoke on the occasion.
The ambassador was of the view that the Swiss business community was quite impressed by the potential

GENEVA - The Swiss government on Wednesday ordered a freeze on any funds that might be held by Tunisia's ousted president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Switzerland, Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey said.
The three-year blocking order announced after a regular cabinet meeting followed domestic political pressure as well as legal action by Tunisian exiles in Switzerland this week.
The Federal Council "decided to block with immediate effect any possible funds in Switzerland of

LAHORE: Swiss Ambassador Christoph Bubb and Consul General Didier Boschung visited the Overseas Investors Chamber of Commerce & Industry (OICCI) to familiarise himself with the business environment in the country and to obtain the ground realities of operating in Pakistan from the business community's perspective.
The prime objective of the Swiss delegates' visit to OICCI was to identify avenues for bilateral collaboration with Pakistan including identification of sunrise

ANKARA: Turkey's prime minister on Wednesday furiously denied claims he had secret accounts in Swiss banks and was involved in fraud, penned by US diplomats in cables revealed by the WikiLeaks website.
"I do not have one penny in Swiss banks... If this is proven, I will not stay in my post," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an angry speech at a public ceremony here.
He urged Washington "to call to account" its diplomats for "slander derived from lies and inaccurate opinions,"

GENEVA: Switzerland was divided Sunday over a far-right push to automatically expel foreign residents convicted of certain crimes, with partial results in a referendum indicating a close race.
More than an hour after polls closed at mid-day, research institute gfs.bern said it was unable to forecast the likely result of the vote, while adding that it was clear that another referendum on whether the country should introduce a minimum tax rate across the board was set to be

Rafa Nadal has toppled Roger Federer from the summit of the tennis world rankings but overtaking his arch rival as the sport's number one in off-court earnings is likely to prove a much stiffer challenge.
Nadal, 24, joined the 29-year-old Federer and five other players on an elite list when he swept to victory at last month's U.S. Open and completed a career grand slam of all four major tournaments.
The Spaniard, who now has nine grand slam singles titles, has shrugged off