Jonas Lauwiner was widely dismissed as an eccentric when he crowned himself king of Switzerland in 2019 and used a loophole in Swiss law to acquire a 117,000-square-metre “land empire”. Lauwiner ...

K•Swiss Inc. and E.Land World Ltd. announced entry into a definitive agreement pursuant to which E.Land World will acquire all of the outstanding common stock of K•Swiss for $4.75 per share in cash, ...

JERUSALEM — The first organized Holy Land pilgrimage in Pontifical Swiss Guard history quietly took place last month, with none of the attention the Pope’s foot soldiers ordinarily attract. Dressed in ...

Jonas Lauwiner, a self-styled 'King of Switzerland', has legally claimed 148 ownerless plots totalling 117,000 sq metres, including 83 roads, by using a little-known Swiss land law. His actions have ...

For years, Jonas Lauwiner was just a young man of Moroccan origins, raised in Interlaken, quietly flipping through Swiss land registry records while the rest of the country went about its business.

A Swiss land registry official said that documents claiming to show purchases of luxury properties by Ukrainian officials are forged. The documents contain errors, such as the wrong digit count in ...

With a ceremony that went off like a classic Swiss timepiece, officials Friday inaugurated the world’s longest overland tunnel, a 21-mile-long rail link under the Alps meant to ease highway traffic ...