https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Switzerland says it has widened its probe into Malaysia's scandal-tainted state investment fund, 1MDB, with transactions worth $800 million under scrutiny and evidence pointing to fraud through "a Ponzi scheme". https://www.thelocal.ch/20161005/swiss-widen-probe-into-malaysian-1mdb-fund Wed, 05 Oct 2016 15:20:57 +0200 swiss-widen-probe-into-malaysian-1mdb-fund Switzerland said on Tuesday that it has widened its corruption probe into a Malaysia state-owned fund linked to Prime Minister Najib Razak, with two new individuals under investigation for a suspected phony bond deal. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160412/switzerland-widens-probe-into-murky-malaysia-fund Tue, 12 Apr 2016 15:34:31 +0200 switzerland-widens-probe-into-murky-malaysia-fund Swiss authorities said on Thursday they had frozen tens of millions of dollars in assets as part of an investigation into Malaysia's troubled state investment fund, 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). https://www.thelocal.ch/20150903/swiss-freeze-assests-of-malaysian-state-fund Thu, 03 Sep 2015 13:53:38 +0200 swiss-freeze-assests-of-malaysian-state-fund A Swiss aviator attempting to circumnavigate the world in 20 months in a lightweight two-seater aircraft died at the weekend after crashing into a volcano in central Ecuador, officials said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150329/swiss-pilot-dies-in-ecuador-volcano-crash Sun, 29 Mar 2015 13:57:29 +0200 swiss-pilot-dies-in-ecuador-volcano-crash A 59-year-old man flying a small Piper aircraft died after the plane crashed on Friday in a field in Bernex, a municipality in the canton of Geneva, according to media reports. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150130/pilot-dies-after-small-plane-crashes-in-geneva Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:08:00 +0100 pilot-dies-after-small-plane-crashes-in-geneva A communications officer from Lausanne is listed among the 118 people on board the Air Algérie plane which crashed in Mali on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20140725/lausanne-woman-among-flight-ah5017-dead Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:40:00 +0200 lausanne-woman-among-flight-ah5017-dead