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September 15, 2017

Dirty money? Wads of cut-up cash found in Geneva toilets

Talk about flush with cash. A Geneva official has confirmed a newspaper report that said wads of cut-up 500-euro notes (about ...

September 15, 2017

Fleeing Rohingya Muslims watch as homes burn in Myanmar

Days after fleeing their village on the Myanmar side of the border fence, a group of Rohingya Muslims watched from just ...

September 15, 2017

Swiss state blocks cyberattack, but another hits contractor

Switzerland's government says state cyber-experts detected and prevented an attempted cyberattack on the Swiss defense ...

September 15, 2017

Amnesty decries 'campaign of burnings' targeting Rohingya

Amnesty International says it has turned up evidence of an "orchestrated campaign of systematic burnings" by Myanmar security ...

September 14, 2017

Booking.com defends pricing after Swiss launch investigation

Online travel giant Booking.com is defending its policy on the commissions it charges in Switzerland after a state agency ...

September 13, 2017

Swiss investigate possible 'abusive pricing' by Booking.com

A Swiss government agency said Tuesday it has opened an investigation into possible "abusive pricing" by the online travel ...

September 13, 2017

UEFA charges Celtic for fan incident during PSG game

UEFA has opened a disciplinary case against Celtic after a fan ran on the field near Paris Saint-Germain forward Kylian ...

September 12, 2017

Egyptian lawyer linked to slain Italian arrested in Cairo

A rights group says Egyptian authorities have arrested a lawyer who assisted the family of an Italian graduate student killed ...

September 12, 2017

Swiss send 2nd-century coffin depicting Hercules to Turkey

A Turkish consular official in Geneva says a rare, ancient sarcophagus depicting the 12 labors of Hercules is poised to be ...

September 12, 2017

Alleged Swiss spy to go on trial in Germany next month

A Swiss man accused of spying on German tax investigators for his homeland will go on trial in Frankfurt next month.

September 12, 2017

Correction: United Nations-Children Migrants story

In a story Sept. 12 about a U.N. report on child migrants, The Associated Press misspelled the name of a UNICEF spokeswoman.

September 11, 2017

Amid internal turmoil, Olympic boxing body bans African VP

Olympic boxing body AIBA says its African vice president has been banned for three years, for allegedly provoking a hostile ...

September 11, 2017

2 US scientists awarded Balzan Prize for cancer research

Two U.S. scientists whose work has contributed to creating immunological treatments for cancer are among the winners of this ...

September 11, 2017

Column: Financial, soccer ideals collide in Champions League

UEFA is putting itself in a quandary by combing through Paris Saint-Germain's finances, investigating whether the French ...

September 11, 2017

Former FIFA VP Chung gets date to appeal 5-year ban at CAS

Former FIFA vice president Chung Mong-joon's appeal against a five-year ban by FIFA will be heard on Nov. 14. The Court of ...

September 11, 2017

Basel out to revive reputation as scourge of English teams

It wasn't so long ago that Swiss team Basel possessed a reputation for being a scourge of English clubs in European ...

September 11, 2017

CAS to hear appeal in Bolt Olympic relay case in November

An appeal case involving the 2008 Olympic title stripped from Usain Bolt and the Jamaican relay team is going to court in ...

September 11, 2017

27 people injured in train crash in central Switzerland

Swiss authorities are investigating the crash of a train locomotive into a string of passenger rail cars during a maneuvering ...

September 11, 2017

The Latest: No life-threatening injuries in Swiss rail crash

The Latest on a train crash in central Switzerland (all times local): 3:45 p.m. Swiss police say none of the people hurt in ...