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Swiss entry into the European Union is not on the agenda, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday, as he hosted Swiss President Katrin Keller-Sutter in Berlin. However, he spoke in favour of showing a united front in response to US President Donald Trump's confrontational trade agenda, with higher tariffs being imposed on non-EU member Switzerland than on the 27-country bloc. The relationship between the EU and Switzerland should be "as close as possible," Merz said, while refusing to be drawn on whether the country should become the EU's 28th member. Germany's relations with its sout...

Myanmar is facing a worsening humanitarian crisis, particularly in Rakhine State where the Rohingya Muslim ethnic minority is concentrated, the UN's Human Rights Office said in a report published in Geneva on Tuesday. The report points to "increased killings, torture, razing of villages and mass forced displacement." Since the 2021 military coup, credible sources had verified the killing of some 7,100 people by the military, of whom about a third were women and children, the UN report added. There have also been 26 allegations of the use of chemicals attached to explosive devices, including fe...

A group of Ukrainian children has been brought back from Russia and Russian-occupied territories through an initiative by President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinez announced on Telegram on Tuesday. According to Andriy Yermak, Zelensky's chief of staff, children between 3 months and 18 years old have been returned. "For years, they lived under pressure and fear," Yermak wrote on X. Among those brought home was a child with a disability and a mother with two sons who were deported to Russia, Yermak said. Lubinez and Yermak did not say how many people had be...