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Annual song contest is underway in this year’s host country, Switzerland

Switzerland, where the competition began in Lugano in 1956, will host Tuesday’s first 2025 semi-final.

One location of a leading fast-food restaurant company has begun accepting Bitcoin for payments inside the store. Here are the details.

The cost of rebuilding Ukraine following Russia's invasion could reach $750 billion and rich Russians should help pay the bill, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said on Monday. "We believe that the key source of recovery should be the confiscated assets of Russia and Russian oligarchs," he told a conference…

Switzerland this week hosts the "Ukraine Recovery" conference, to focus on how international partners can help rebuild the country in the wake of the massive infrastructural damage caused by Russian bombing raids.

Leaders from dozens of countries, international organizations and the private sector gathered in Switzerland Monday to hash out a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild war-ravaged Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who will take part virtually, warned Sunday that the work ahead in the areas that have been liberated alone was "really…

Britain will host a conference next year focused on helping Ukraine recover from the damage caused by Russia's invasion, the foreign office said, as nations gather in Switzerland for this year's event.

Alina Kabaeva, 38, lives a life far removed from the bombs, shells and bullets raining across Ukraine.

The gymnast was once described as “Russia ’s most flexible woman“