Switzerland

Representatives of EU member states that are not part of the Schengen borderless area are set to meet in Polish capital Warsaw on Monday, local media report, citing the Polish Press Agency (PAP).

The meeting will bring together officials from Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania with several countries that are part of the area.

ST. PETERSBURG - Serbia's Viktor Troicki is through to the quarter-finals of the St. Petersburg Open tennis tournament after beating fellow Serbian Dusan Lajovic 6-4, 6-4 on Thursday.

Troicki won after 73 minutes of play to make his head-to-head record against Lajovic 2-0.

The national women's volleyball team of Bulgaria will be able to participate in the European volleyball championship next year after beating Switzerland on Friday.

It took the Bulgarians five games to defeat their opponent 3:2 (20:25, 25:17, 23:25, 25:15, 15:12), with local sports websites suggesting they had underestimated the Swiss team.

The Narendra Modi government in New Delhi plans to give Indian citizenship to Baloch leader Brahumdagh Bugti, who is currently in exile in Switzerland.

For the second year in a row, Singapore has taken the top spot in HSBC's Expat Explorer country league table, while Switzerland offers the best wages and Sweden is the best for families. 

New Zealand and Canada followed close behind, taking second and third place, respectively, in the overall Expat Explorer country league table.

The requirement for the certification of diplomas and academic references issued by higher-education institutions in the member-states of the EU, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland with an apostille has been dropped.

Are Native Americans luckier than people from our Black Sea province of Artvin? As I am writing this piece, I don't know the answer to this question because the "Cerattepe" case, which is defined as Turkey's biggest environmental case, was still ongoing in the Black Sea province of Rize. 

My first encounter with Alain Lefevre was back in 2002, when the French-Canadian pianist and composer visited Athens for a concert at the Greek capital's concert hall.

BRASÍLIA, Brazil - Eduardo Cunha, the former head of the Chamber of Deputies and the leader of the effort that ousted the democratically elected Dilma Rousseff, has been officially removed from his post through a vote by his fellow politicians for his role in the massive Petrobras corruption case.

Despite hopes of a new dawn for Iran's economy after nuclear-related sanctions were lifted, major Western banks are reluctant to do business with the Islamic republic for fear of U.S. retribution.