A father was stabbed and his family attacked by armed foreign suspects this week in the Swiss border city of Basel, according to reports. A couple and their two young children were walking along a city street on Wednesday evening when two males ambushed them. The husband, 25, managed to fight off the assailants, but was hospitalized with stab wounds, according to Basel-Stadt police. “The first suspect... 

An ongoing conflict between gangs of Africans and Kosovars has led to a shooting in Delémont, a minor Swiss city near the French border. Members of both groups engaged in battle on Sunday night, according to 20 Minutes. Armed with bats, knifes, and other weapons, the rival factions squared off in the cantonal capital, population roughly 12,000. A young man from Kosovo is believed to have opened fire... 

The trend is accelerating, just as I predicted it would. Countries all over the globe are growing anxious, as the geopolitical atmosphere of the world continues to heat up, threatening to hit a boiling point. Central bankers and government officials who see the world through an unfiltered, non-rose-tinted lens are well aware of this, and are beginning to take the necessary actions required to protect... 

Immigrants to Switzerland will be ineligible to apply for citizenship if they have used welfare in that country within the previous three years—unless they pay it all back, in terms of a tough new immigration law which has come into effect. The new law, officially named the Civil Rights Act, is based on legislation that had originally been tried and tested in cities such as Basel and Zurich. Although... 

A local resident wades to a neighbor’s house on a flooded street near the swollen Elbe River in Elster, Germany, on June 7, 2013. Officials in eastern Germany have issued evacuation orders for thousands of people living near the swollen Elbe River. According to reports on Sunday, in Magdeburg, the state capital of Saxony-Anhalt, over 23,000 residents were evacuated after many buildings and streets... 

Floods in Central Europe kill 10 people in Czech Republic. Hundreds of people have been evacuated from the eastern city of Dresden in Germany, where thousands of troops are deployed to help flood-hit areas. On Wednesday, a city spokeswoman said that some 600 people needed to leave their homes in Dresden because of the flood. Electricity cut off was reported in parts of the city. The military also said... 

The Federal Commission against Racism said the posters defame Switzerland’s so-called “peaceful” Muslim population. Zurich, the largest Swiss city, has permitted the use of a controversial poster which promotes a ban on the construction of minarets on mosques in Switzerland as a national referendum on the issue draws near. The far-right Swiss People’s Party (SVP) is using the...