Swiss authorities have selected a site in northern Switzerland, not far from the German border, to host a deep geological storage repository for radioactive waste, they said Saturday.
One of four Swiss nuclear power stations was permanently disconnected on Friday after 47 years of service, marking a first in Switzerland, as the country begins to gradually phase out atomic energy.
Europe's oldest functioning nuclear reactor, at Switzerland's Beznau plant, will turn 50 next week -- a lifespan deemed dangerously long by environmentalists who are demanding that it be shut down immediately.
Switzerland’s Beznau I, the oldest nuclear reactor in the world, is set to be fully operational again at the end of March after being offline since March 2015 after problems were found in its reactor pressure vessel.
France is to close down one of its oldest nuclear power plants, at the centre of a row with neighbouring Germany and Switzerland, by the end of this year, a green minister said on Sunday.
UPDATED: Swiss and Austrian investigators have launched probes into alleged spying in hotels hosting delicate Iranian nuclear talks, with Israel denying on Thursday that its secret services were involved.
A Swiss business delegation travelled to Iran over the weekend for the first such visit in ten years in a bid to expand trade ties, the federal department of finance says.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart huddled in Lausanne all night until early dawn Thursday negotiating face-to-face as they sought to clinch a hard-fought deal to curtail Iran's nuclear programme.
Russia and Iran claimed a breakthrough in
Lausanne talks on a framework deal cutting back Tehran's nuclear programme, but the US denied everything had been agreed as discussions were due to resume Wednesday.
Global powers were racing in Lausanne on Tuesday to reach the outlines of a deal to stop any Iranian bid to develop nuclear weapons. Here's a guide to what kind of agreement may be reached:
In the margins of intense talks in Lausanne to reach a deal over Iran’s nuclear future over the weekend an Iranian journalist took advantage of the situation to file a request for asylum in Switzerland, media reports said.
Marathon Iran nuclear talks headed on Friday
towards a critical weekend as Britain said its foreign minister would join his US, Iranian and French counterparts in racing the clock to pin down a deal in Switzerland.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart held down-to-the-wire talks in Lausanne on Thursday, with US officials insisting the contours of a historic nuclear deal were in sight just days before a deadline.
US Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Lausanne on March 15th to meet with his Iranian counterpart as part of continuing talks on Tehran's nuclear program, the State Department said on Monday.
The United States says tough challenges remained to seal a nuclear deal with Iran, vowing not to be distracted by external politics in its quest to stop Tehran acquiring the atomic bomb.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Iranian counterpart on Wednesday resumed talks in Montreux on a nuclear deal, ignoring an impassioned plea from the Israeli prime minister to ditch the process.
High-level talks in Geneva on Tehran's disputed nuclear programme were "useful and constructive" but a deal is still
a long way off, a senior US administration official said on Monday.
Iran and the US held more than six hours of talks in Geneva on Wednesday seeking to nail down a complex nuclear deal, but negotiators remained tight-lipped on what progress had been made as the clock ticks down to a third deadline.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Geneva on Wednesday urged "respect for each other's values" amid Muslim anger over the new Charlie Hebdo magazine cover showing a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed.
World powers resumed negotiations in Geneva with Iran on Wednesday over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, more than three weeks after they last met and gave themselves another seven months to conclude a deal.
Senior officials from the United States and Iran resumed talks on Monday over Tehran's disputed nuclear programme, a diplomatic source said, three weeks after world powers missed a deadline for reaching a deal.
Six members of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) wanted to discreetly visit Iran without publicity last week but one of them inadvertently made the trip public in a tweet.
