GENEVA (AP) — Families in a tiny Swiss village were packing up Wednesday after authorities issued an evacuation order with a weekend deadline because of the threat of a possible rockslide from an Alpine mountainside overhead. Authorities in charge of the eastern village of Brienz said in a statement Tuesday that they analyzed the potential...
Tag: world news
Post
Post
US laments ‘disappointing’ Swiss decision not to fully adopt latest EU sanctions against Russia
GENEVA (AP) — The United States is expressing disappointment over a decision by the Swiss government not to adopt all measures in the latest round of European Union sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine. Amb. Scott Miller, the top U.S. envoy in the Swiss capital, expressed hope that Bern will work to close...
Post
Advocacy groups behind ‘suicide’ pod in Switzerland suspend its use. Know why
Advocacy groups in Switzerland behind a so-called suicide capsule said on Sunday (Oct 6) that they suspended the process of taking applications to use it – as an investigation into its first use in the country was completed. A report by the news agency Associated Press said that the president of Switzerland-based The Last Resort, Florian Willet, was...
Post
Advocacy groups suspend use of ‘suicide capsule’ pending Swiss criminal probe of woman’s death
Advocacy groups behind a so-called suicide capsule said Sunday they have suspended the process of taking applications to use it — which numbered over 370 last month — as a criminal investigation into its first use in Switzerland is completed. The president of Switzerland-based The Last Resort, Florian Willet, is being held in pretrial detention,...
Post
Swiss glaciers are receding again after 2 punishing years and despite a good start to 2024
GENEVA (AP) — The volume of Switzerland’s glaciers shrank again this summer, compounding the negative impact of climate change after a devastating two-year run that depleted the ice by more than 10%, scientific experts reported Tuesday. The cryosphere observation team at the Swiss Academy of Sciences reported that high temperatures in July and August, combined...
Post
Melting glaciers force Italy and Switzerland to redraw border in the Alps
Swisstopo, Switzerland’s national mapping agency, says that the country’s borders with Italy, France, Austria, Germany and Liechtenstein have to be amended fairly frequently. The changes are normally based on readings taken by surveyors, without politicians getting involved. Across the Alps, glaciers are melting at alarming rates. In the summer of 2022, 11 hikers were killed...
Post
US woman meant to be first to use ‘suicide pod’ accused company of trying to get her life savings: report
An American woman who was meant to be the first person to use the controversial new Sarco “suicide pod” in Switzerland backed out while accusing the company behind it of being “heartless” in exploiting her for publicity and trying to get her life savings, according to a report. The 55-year-old, identified under the alias Jessica Campbell,...
Post
Sarco ‘suicide pod’ gave chilling command before American woman took her own life
The American woman who became the first person to take her own life in the new “suicide pod” in Switzerland was given a chilling command by the morbid machine before she took her last breaths. After entering the Sarco suicide pod on Monday, the machine allegedly asked the 64-year-old woman, who has not been publicly...
Post
‘Immune-compromised’ woman, 64, uses ‘suicide pod’ dubbed ‘the Tesla of euthanasia’ to end her life — several arrested
A 64-year-old US woman this week became the first person to use a “suicide pod” to end her life — and several people have been detained in Switzerland over the death. The woman, a Midwesterner who was not named publicly, died Monday afternoon in the portable, 3D-printed chamber called a Sarco, short for “sarcophagus” —...
Post
Swiss police detain several people in connection with suspected death in a ‘suicide capsule’
GENEVA (AP) — Police in northern Switzerland said Tuesday that several people have been detained and a criminal case opened in connection with the suspected death of a person in a “suicide capsule.” The “Sarco” capsule, which has never been used before, is presumably designed to allow a person sitting in a reclining seat inside...
Post
Birds, bees and ballots: Swiss voters to decide on plan to bolster country’s fragile biodiversity
GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland, known for natural beauty like pristine lakes and majestic Alpine peaks, ranks among the world’s richest countries whose plant and animal life is under the greatest threat. Environmentalists were seeking better protections for the country’s biodiversity in a nationwide vote that culminated Sunday. The Swiss public broadcaster SSR, citing exit polls...
Post
Father of ex-Miss Switzerland finalist ‘pureed’ by husband found her head in bin bag
The murder of a former Miss Switzerland finalist has shaken the world. Kristina Joksimovic was strangled, dismembered and then “pureed” in a blender allegedly by her husband at their Basel home. Kristina’s father has now spoken up and revealed that he found his daughter’s decapitated head in a bin bag in her laundry room. This,...