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6 refugees speak out as UN-backed treaty to help people fleeing war and persecution marks 75 years

The U.N. refugee agency is marking the 75th anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention. The treaty was born after the ravages of World War II to help people fleeing war, violence and persecution.

 

Vatican excommunicates schismatic bishops and priests, and warns their followers

The Vatican has responded aggressively to a traditionalist society that consecrated bishops without the pope’s consent.

 

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Defying Pope Leo XIV, traditionalists go ahead with bishop consecrations in Switzerland

A breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics has directly defied Pope Leo XIV by consecrating four bishops without his consent. The Society of St.

 

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Vance says talks with Iranian officials set ‘good foundation’ for a deal to end the war

Vice President JD Vance says his lengthy talks with senior Iranian officials in Switzerland created a good foundation for a final deal to end the Iran war.

 

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US-Iran negotiations end, technical talks will continue after Trump shakes talks with threats

High-level negotiations in Switzerland seeking a permanent end to the Iran war have ended. Mediators Pakistan and Qatar said that technical talks will go on there for the rest of the week in a statement issued early Monday.

 

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Vance’s push to get Iran talks started hits an early bump

The American push for high-stakes talks with Iran has hit a snag. Iranian officials didn’t travel to Switzerland as planned for the talks and are insisting that fighting in Lebanon must stop first.

 

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Swiss voters reject right-wing’s bid to cap population at 10 million, early results show

Swiss voters have rejected a proposal to cap the country’s population at 10 million. The initiative, led by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party, was seen as a move against migration.

 

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Protesters in Geneva clash with police ahead of the G7 summit in nearby France

Riot police fired tear gas and water cannons in clashes with stone-throwing youths during a protest on Sunday in Geneva against the G7 group of wealthy nations.

 

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G7 summit at Swiss-French border brings tight security in case violent protests occur

French and Swiss authorities are imposing pandemic-like border restrictions as the G7 summit begins. Leaders including U.S.

 

Vote looms in Switzerland after foes of migration put proposal to cap population at 10 million

Swiss voters are taking up an unprecedented proposal to limit Switzerland’s population at 10 million in coming decades.

 

Lufthansa employees injured after Boeing 787’s nose landing gear collapses at Frankfurt airport

Several Lufthansa employees were injured when the nose gear of a Boeing aircraft retracted at Frankfurt airport.

 

Board of Peace will ask the UN Security Council to press Hamas to disarm

The body overseeing the U.S.-brokered ceasefire in Gaza plans to ask the United Nations Security Council to press Hamas to disarm.

 

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What to know about the US military presence in Europe as Trump seeks drawdown of thousands of troops

U.S. President Donald Trump’s pledge to shrink America’s military deployment in Germany is putting a new spotlight on the U.S. military presence in Europe.

 

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Georg Baselitz, German artist known for provocation and upside-down paintings, dies at 88

Georg Baselitz, an acclaimed and award-winning neo-Expressionist German artist with a penchant for provocation and known for painting images upside down, has died.

 

Daughter of former Uzbek president goes on trial in Switzerland over money laundering

The daughter of a former president of Uzbekistan has gone on trial in Switzerland in connection with alleged bribery and money laundering involving assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

 

Trump dispatches Witkoff and Kushner to Pakistan for new talks with Iran’s foreign minister

President Donald Trump is sending his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan to meet with Iran’s foreign minister as officials in the South Asian nation push to revive ceasefire talks.

 

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Trump orders US military to ‘shoot and kill’ Iranian small boats choking Strait of Hormuz

U.S. President Donald Trump says he has ordered the U.S. military to “shoot and kill” small Iranian boats that deploy mines to choke traffic through the Strait of Hormuz.

 

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US military says it seizes another oil tanker associated with Iran

The U.S. military hsa seized another tanker associated with the smuggling of Iranian oil. The move on Thursday ratcheted up a standoff with Iran a day after its paramilitary Revolutionary Guards took control of two vessels in the crucial Strait of Hormuz.

 

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War intensifies uncertainty for makers of the ultimate in bling, luxury watches

The annual luxury watch fair “Watches and Wonders” opens this week in Switzerland, with the Iran war casting new doubt over an industry that had hoped to rebound from tariff turmoil and a contracting market over the last two years.

 

US-Europe rift widens as Trump lashes out at NATO allies over Mideast war

U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s strongly considering pulling the United States out of NATO, yet he failed to mention the alliance in his speech to the American public about the Iran war.

 

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CERN runs a delicate test on transporting antimatter

Scientists at CERN took some antiprotons out for a spin in a never-tried-before test drive. Tuesday’s experiment was hailed as a success.

 

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NATO chief downplays Trump’s rift with alliance

Today’s live updates have ended. Follow more live coverage on the Iran war.

 

UN rights report condemns displacement of Palestinians in West Bank

The U.N. human rights office has expressed concerns about possible “ethnic cleansing,” warning of an acceleration of Israeli settlements and displacements of thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

 

Suspect in fatal Swiss bus fire had no terror links, police say

A man who doused himself in a flammable substance and set his body on fire killing himself and five others aboard a bus in Switzerland had previously been reported missing by his family and didn’t appear to have any terror-related motive.

 

Chaos sown by Iran’s attacks across the Persian Gulf is key to its strategy

For years, Iran’s theocratic government warned it would blanket the Middle East with missile and drone fire if it felt its existence was threatened.

 

Lebanon urges Hezbollah militant group to avoid getting involved if the US strikes Iran

Lebanon’s foreign minister says his government has urged the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah not to get involved if any fighting erupts between the United States and Iran, voicing concerns about a new possible conflict with Israel.

 

US sheds light on its allegation of Chinese nuclear test and urges nations to push for disarmament

A U.S. official focusing on arms control has provided what he called new, declassified details of a Chinese underground nuclear test nearly six years ago.

 

Thanks but no thanks: Trump’s hospital ship plan provokes defense of Greenland health care system

U.S. President Donald Trump says he is sending a U.S. Navy hospital ship to Greenland because people there are sick and lack care.

 

UN experts say destruction by Sudan’s rebels in el-Fasher in October bears ‘hallmarks of genocide’

U.N.-backed investigators say Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have carried out a campaign in the city of el-Fasher in the Darfur region that shows “hallmarks of genocide” against non-Arab communities.

 

Envoys signal no breakthrough on bridging Russia and Ukraine’s political and military differences

The latest U.S.-brokered talks between envoys from Moscow and Kyiv over Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine have ended with no sign of a breakthrough.

 

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