In particular, complex air operations are to be practiced at “Tiger Meet”.Image: DPA May 4, 2026, 9:00 a.mMay 4, 2026, 11:00 a.m As part of the Partnership for Peace, Switzerland is once again taking part in the multinational NATO exercise “Tiger Meet” this year. The Swiss Air Force will be present in Araxos, Greece, with […]
Continue ReadingA team of North Korean footballers will make a rare visit to South Korea later this month. North Korean side Naegohyang will cross the border to play Suwon in the Asian Women’s Champions League semi-final on 20 May. Pyongyang has sent a list of 27 players and 12 staff who will make the visit. South […]
Continue ReadingTwo out of three drones were repelled by Russian air defense – one hit a residential building.Image: AP May 4, 2026, 7:46 amMay 4, 2026, 7:46 am A few days before the traditional Victory Day military parade in Moscow, a Ukrainian drone crashed into a residential building near the center of the Russian capital. Mayor […]
Continue ReadingUS soldiers at the end of April during a maneuver at the German NATO base Hohenfels in Bavaria.Image: keystone The 10 most important questions and answers about Donald Trump’s announced troop withdrawal from Europe. May 4, 2026, 6:58 amMay 4, 2026, 6:58 am follow me Against the backdrop of increasing tensions between President Donald Trump […]
Continue ReadingTo secure shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the USA, together with allied Gulf states, drafted a UN resolution. In it, the parties call on Iran to refrain from further violent escalations in the strait, as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced. Tehran should stop attacking ships, mining the strait and charging tolls for […]
Continue ReadingIran warns US not to to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which he had blocked, to international shipping traffic. “Project Freedom is a Project Dead End,” wrote Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi that night on Platform X, with a view to the initiative announced by US President Donald Trump to end the blockade of the […]
Continue ReadingThe current news ticker on the war against Iran launched by the Trump administration and Israel and on US foreign policy. …(Read on https://www.watson.ch)
Continue ReadingUS President Donald Trump has declared the end of hostilities in Iran in a letter to the US Congress. There have been no fighting between Iran and the USA since the ceasefire began on April 7th, according to a letter from the White House signed by Trump and available to the German Press Agency. “The […]
Continue ReadingEurope yet again finds itself on the receiving end of Donald Trump’s ire. On Friday, the U.S. president threatened to raise tariffs on European cars to 25 percent, as frustration grows in Washington over the slow pace of an EU-U.S. trade deal. Trump had also called for withdrawing U.S. troops from Germany earlier in the week […]
Continue ReadingThe video game retailer Gamestop wants to take over the much larger online trading platform Ebay. May 4, 2026, 4:31 a.mMay 4, 2026, 4:31 a.m The offer is worth around $56 billion in the form of cash and shares, as Gamestop boss Ryan Cohen told the Wall Street Journal. Gamestop wants to take over eBay.Image: […]
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