There was a lot riding on last week’s plastics negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland, but talks fell at the final hurdle.

From September, the city and canton of Bern will be carrying out extensive construction work on the River Aare to protect against flooding and to renovate the Marzili outdoor pool.

From 2026, Moutier will be part of the Swiss canton of Jura, gaining more than 1,000 new voters. On Monday around 50 people were informed about their new rights.

A more assertive Chinese negotiating team, a lack of simple solutions and serious time constraints are a challenge to ...

The UN eyes further negotiations, but global discord on limiting an escalating crisis makes next steps unclear.

Days before winning his second presidential term, Donald Trump made a bold promise: if he returned to the White House, he would free a pugnacious, self-made billionaire from a Hong Kong prison.

The United States and China have extended a trade truce for another 90 days, the latest development in a months-long showdown between the two economic powerhouses.

April 2 - Trump escalates global trade friction with sweeping "liberation day" tariffs, announcing a baseline 10% across all imports and significantly higher duties on some countries. Trump levies 34% ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has targeted top economic rival China with a cascade of tariff orders on billions of dollars of ...

The executive order staves off triple-digit duties on Chinese goods as U.S. retailers prepared for the critical end-of-year holiday season.

The previous deadline was set to expire at 12:01 a.m. Tuesday. Had that happened, the U.S. could have ratcheted up taxes on ...

Procedural rules for the plastics treaty negotiations say that, for substantive issues, delegates “ shall make every effort ” ...