6 d. ago Trump steps up Greenland annexation demand and attacks European leaders at Davos

US president tells business and political leaders in Davos his country needs ownership to defend ‘unsecured island’Donald Trump has stepped up his demand to annex Greenland but said the US would not use force to seize it during a rambling, invective-laden speech at Davos where he once again lashed out at Europe’s political leaders.The address to thousands of business and political leaders at the World Economic Form in the Swiss ski resort indicated that while the US president was renouncing the use of military force – for now at least – to wrest control of Greenland, he still intended to wield America’s economic and diplomatic power to bend European allies to his will. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Trump steps up demand to annex Greenland but rules out using force

US president tells business and political leaders in Davos his country needs ownership to defend ‘unsecured island’Business live – latest updatesDonald Trump has stepped up his demand to annex Greenland in an extraordinary speech in Davos, but said the US would not use force to seize what he called the “big, beautiful piece of ice”.Addressing thousands of business and political leaders at the World Economic Form in the Swiss ski resort, the US president said he was “seeking immediate negotiations to once again discuss the acquisition of Greenland by the United States”. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago After years of criticising Davos, Nigel Farage heads to Davos

Reform UK leader has decried ‘globalist’ event but this year hopes to meet Donald Trump for Greenland talksFor years he has derided the annual gathering at Davos as a smug and conspiratorial meeting of enemies of the nation state. But this week, Nigel Farage will himself be rubbing shoulders with the “globalists” he has so reviled.Farage’s itinerary at the Swiss ski resort remains unclear, although his Reform UK deputy, Richard Tice, said on Sunday he hoped Farage would get a chance to speak to Donald Trump, who is also attending the event run by the World Economic Forum (WEF). Continue reading...

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1 week ago Waitress who escaped Swiss bar fire reveals staff had no safety training & says she’s ‘haunted by the faces of the dead’

A SURVIVING employee of the Swiss ski resort bar where a deadly fire killed 40 says she is "haunted by the faces of the dead". French national Louise Leguistin, 25, was one of the only staff members of Le Constellation to escape unharmed after the horrific blaze tore through the downstairs nightspot in the early...

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2 w. ago Swiss ski resort that saw 40 killed in New Year's Eve fire is lined up to host events at the 2038 Winter Olympics

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Less than a fortnight after the blaze in Crans-Montana that killed 40, officials for the bid identified the municipality as a key site in their proposals.

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2 w. ago Sparklers in cake suspended from ceiling set hotel on fire during wedding celebrations in Italy in echo of deadly Swiss resort inferno

The incident took place just days before the fatal New Year's Swiss ski resort fire, allegedly triggered by sparklers in champagne bottles that ignited foam soundproof cladding in the ceiling.

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2 w. ago Owner of Swiss ski resort bar where 40 died in New Year's Eve party fire is arrested

Jacques Moretti, co-owner of Le Constellation in the ski resort of Crans-Montana, was detained in Sion as Switzerland held a national day of mourning

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2 w. ago Funeral held for teen footballer killed in Swiss ski resort fire

Arthur Brodard is one of seven members of Lutry Football Club who died in the fire

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2 w. ago Manager of Swiss bar 'seen fleeing burning building with till stuffed cash' as fire spread

40 people aged between 14 and 39 died in the fire disaster at a bar in a Swiss ski resort town with more than 100 being left with injuries in the horror inferno

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3 w. ago No safety inspections at site of Swiss bar fire for past five years, mayor says

Nicolas Féraud says he does not know why bar in Crans-Montana had not been inspected annually, as required by lawAuthorities in Crans-Montana have said the bar that caught fire in the Swiss ski resort on New Year’s Eve, killing 40 mainly young partygoers and injuring more than 100, had not been inspected by safety officers for the past five years.“Periodic inspections were not conducted between 2020 and 2025. We bitterly regret this,” the mayor of the town, Nicolas Féraud, told a press conference in the town on Tuesday, five days after the disaster at Le Constellation bar. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago All 116 people injured in Swiss resort fire identified, say police

Bodies of first foreign victims repatriated after 40 people died in blaze in Crans-Montana on New Year’s EveAll 116 people injured in the fire that tore through a bar in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana on New Year’s Eve, killing 40 mostly young partygoers, have been identified, police have said, as the bodies of the first foreign victims were repatriated.Police in Valais canton said in a statement on Monday they had revised the number of wounded down from 119 because three people admitted to accident and emergency wards on Thursday morning had been wrongly recorded as injured in the blaze. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Boxer, 18, dies in Switzerland fire as tributes paid to heroic teenager

All 40 victims of the New Year's Eve tragedy have now been identified, with a further 119 people injured

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3 w. ago British schoolgirl, 15, confirmed as victim of Swiss New Year's Day ski resort fire

Charlotte Niddam was one of 40 people killed in the blaze at the Crans-Montana resort's Constellation bar on New Year's Day

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3 w. ago British schoolgirl Charlotte Niddam named as victim of horror New Year's Swiss ski resort fire

Hertfordshire teen Charlotte Niddam was one of the final victims to have her identity confimed by police - Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has called the news 'devastating'

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3 w. ago Former British schoolgirl, 15, confirmed as victim of New Year's Swiss ski resort fire

Charlotte Niddam, 15, was one of 40 people killed and over 100 injured in the blaze at the Crans-Montana resort's Constellation bar while celebrating the start of 2026

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3 w. ago Former British schoolgirl confirmed dead after Swiss ski resort fire

The Valais region police force published a statement on Sunday confirming that all 40 people killed in the fire have now been identified.

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3 w. ago Former pupil, 15, at British school named among victims of deadly Swiss ski resort fire

Former Immanuel College pupil Charlotte Niddam has been confirmed among the 40 people killed in the Crans-Montana blaze.

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3 w. ago Former pupil at British school confirmed as one of the victims of the Swiss ski resort fire

Charlotte Niddam, believed to be 15, was among the last 16 victims to have been identified by police

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3 w. ago Silent procession of 2,000 mourners fills streets in poignant tribute after 40 killed in horror blaze at Swiss ski bar

MORE THAN 2,000 mourners walked in silence through the Swiss ski resort where 40 partygoers were killed in a New Year bar inferno. The poignant procession in the alpine town of Crans-Montana followed an emotional church service in memory of the dead. They filled the Chapel St Christophe and poured onto the streets outside to...

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3 w. ago Silent procession of 2,000 people fill the street for mass in Swiss ski resort after New Year fire which killed 40 people

Many of those walking along the main street towards a makeshift shrine outside Le Constellation bar carried flowers as the gathering snaked its way up the hill to the scene of the tragedy.

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