Category: WATSON.CH

The advance detachment is already there: four Swiss diplomats are preparing to reopen the embassy in Tehran. But there is a change at the top of the embassy. April 24, 2026, 3:58 p.mApril 24, 2026, 3:58 p.m Stefan Bühler / ch media “As of this week, a small team from the Swiss Embassy has been […]

April 24, 2026, 3:55 p.mApril 24, 2026, 3:55 p.m US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has described European discussions about a naval deployment to secure the Strait of Hormuz as “stupid”. “These are not yet serious efforts,” he said at a press conference about last week’s talks. Hegseth complained that the Europeans had talked about “perhaps […]

April 24, 2026, 3:36 p.mApril 24, 2026, 3:36 p.m Significantly fewer asylum seekers received protection status in the EU last year. Around 361,325 people received a positive decision in 2025 – a decrease of almost a fifth compared to the previous year (437,735). This emerges from data from the EU statistics office Eurostat. Germany, with […]

The Israeli Prime Minister is feeling his age. He had to undergo treatment for a tumor. But he is in excellent health, he says. April 24, 2026, 2:40 p.mApril 24, 2026, 2:40 p.m Had to undergo surgery: Benjamin Netanyahu.Image: keystone Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made his cancer public on social media. In this […]

The Israeli Prime Minister is feeling his age. He had to undergo treatment for a tumor. But he is in excellent health, he says. April 24, 2026, 2:40 p.mApril 24, 2026, 3:11 p.m Had to undergo surgery: Benjamin Netanyahu.Image: keystone Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made his cancer public on social media. In this […]

An international search was underway for the poisoned baby food jars. (symbol image)Image: APA/APA April 24, 2026, 2:38 p.mApril 24, 2026, 2:59 p.m In the baby food extortion case, the amount of poison in one of the seized jars has now been determined. The Hipp jar discovered in Austria contained 15 micrograms of rat poison, […]

A small team has been present in Tehran again this week.Image: EDA April 24, 2026, 2:05 p.mApril 24, 2026, 2:07 p.m Swiss embassy operations in Iran will gradually resume. As of this week, a small team has been present again in Tehran, as the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs announced on Friday. It is said […]

Video: Watson/Lucas Zollinger April 24, 2026, 1:44 p.mApril 24, 2026, 1:55 p.m Without further ado, Australia managed to do what Germany has been unable to do for weeks: save a whale. A week ago on Friday, several aid organizations rescued a humpback whale off the coast of New South Wales. He was stranded on a […]

A pro-Palestine demonstration in Basel on the occasion of the ESC in Switzerland 2025.Image: keystone ESC April 24, 2026, 1:39 p.mApril 24, 2026, 1:39 p.m Organizers are calling for a large demonstration against Israel’s participation on the final day of the Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna on May 16th. Several thousand participants are said to […]

Communication errors preceded the fatal collision between a plane and a fire truck at New York’s LaGuardia Airport in late March. April 24, 2026, 1:33 p.mApril 24, 2026, 1:33 p.m According to an interim report from the US Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the lack of technology for an automatic warning system on the airport’s fire […]