Eighty Swiss banks have agreed to pay the US fines totaling $1.36 billion in order to avoid court prosecution, according to the US Justice Department. After the investigation has been completed all the banks are required to cooperate in related criminal or civil proceedings, said the department. The US Justice Department began its Swiss Bank Program in 2013. It provided a way for Swiss banks to admit... 

Prime Minister David Cameron is hoping to secure key EU reforms including restrictions on migration during a meeting with Czech leaders in Prague on Friday. Cameron will hold talks with Czech President Milos Zeman and Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka after leaving the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The PM is hoping to gain key concessions from European countries at an EU gathering next... 

An absolutely astonishing Ministry of Defense (MoD) “urgent action report” just released in the Kremlin states that less than 24 hours after Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry agreed to meet in Zurich, Switzerland on 20 January, a US military “operated” aircraft carrying one of his top subordinates approached Federation airspace “demanding” immediate permission... 

Swiss army chief André Blattmann warned, in a Swiss newspaper article on Sunday, the risks of social unrest in Europe are soaring. Recalling the experience of 1939/1945, Blattman fears the increasing aggression in public discourse is an explosively hazardous situation, and advises the Swiss people to arm themselves and warns that the basis for Swiss prosperity is “being called into question.” As... 

Consider the “soccer scandal” that Washington concocted, apparently for the purpose of embarrassing Russia. The soccer organization’s home is Switzerland, but this did not stop Washington from sending FBI agents into Switzerland to arrest Swiss citizens. Try to imagine Switzerland sending Swiss federal agents into the US to arrest Americans. Consider the $9 billion fine that Washington imposed... 

An astonishing Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Putin signed an order this morning authorizing the movement of up to 100,000 Federation troops to the Western Front to be comprised of three new divisions and five regiments of Strategic Missile Forces equipped with atomic weapons to prepare for an expected counter-attack by NATO forces due to Russia... 

It’s almost the New Year, and while 2016 doesn’t come coated with the same doomsday paranoia that accompanied 2012, it never hurts to be prepared. A new year means another 365 days (in 2016’s case, 366) which, if you are inclined to be fatalistic, could lead to humanity’s doom. In the event of a catastrophic meteor collision, suffocating nuclear winter, or solar storm capable of knocking... 

Switzerland’s Chief of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant General André Blattmann. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) is reporting today that Switzerland’s Chief of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant General André Blattmann, has requested that his government immediately approve an order for his nation to re-arm itself due to his fears of “hybrid wars” threatening the peace of the world and the growing global... 

I think it is irresponsible if a government just opens the border totally and says, regardless of how many come: ‘We will accept them.’ That is irresponsible, said Luzi Stamm, of the Swiss People’s Party, following its parliamentary victory. In Switzerland, the anti-immigration Swiss People’s Party (SVP) won a third of seats in parliamentary elections on Sunday, capitalizing on the... 

Argentina’s central bank has ordered HSBC to remove its local CEO within 24 hours over his alleged failure to thwart terrorist financing, money laundering, and tax evasion. In March, Argentinian authorities ordered HSBC to return a mammoth $3.5bn (£2.3bn) from an array of accounts nestled offshore. Argentina had accused the scandal-ridden bank of assisting over 4,000 clients in evading taxes by... 

China sells the US Treasuries to smooth the consequences of the devaluation shock of August 11. The treasury of the country adopted selling the US Treasuries securities directly, as well as through agents in Belgium and Switzerland. The Chinese government also decided to reduce investments into the US Treasuries. The US Secretary of the Treasury Jacob Lew has previously talked with the Vice Premier... 

An Ebola vaccine has proven to provide complete protection against the baneful disease in a field trial in the hard-hit Guinea, a researcher has claimed. The trial showed that the vaccine “offers 100 percent protection against Ebola after roughly one week,” said researcher Sven Trelle from the Swiss University of Bern. The world is “on the verge of an effective Ebola vaccine,”... 

These photographs appear to show a spectacular underwater world. Twelve meters of water covers trees, footpaths, benches and bridges that are only accessible at certain times of the year. During the winter Green Lake in Tragoess, Austria, is normally only one meter deep and visitors can stroll through the park next to the picturesque lagoon. However, at certain times of the year snowmelt from the... 

A new Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today says that US Secretary of John Kerry was “gravely wounded” yesterday (31 May) after a secret meeting he was holding with a top Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL) commander erupted in gunfire in what Federation intelligence analysts are calling an “obvious assassination attempt”. According to this... 

An Israeli oil company has been ordered by a Swiss court to pay $1.1 billion to Iran in compensation in a long-standing legal battle related to a joint venture before the Islamic Revolution, the IRNA news agency says. Citing an “informed source” at Iran’s Presidential Center for Legal Affairs, IRNA said the ruling relates to the Israeli company’s sale of Iranian oil and withholding the money. Iran...