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Switzerland's entry, "The Code" by Nemo, wins this year's Eurovision contest.
2024-05-11

The United States Department of Justice announces that the Swedish-Swiss corporation ABB has acceded to a US$315-million fine for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by extorting the South African state-owned public utility Eskom to secure government contracts from 2014 to 2017.
2022-12-2

Voters in Switzerland approve three measures in a referendum. These measures will require streaming services to invest 4% of their revenue in Switzerland into domestic filmmaking; allow the government to increase the Swiss contribution in Frontex, the EU border agency; and change the default system of organ donation from explicit to presumed consent.
2022-05-15

Switzerland reports its first case of the Brazilian P.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2.
2021-02-9

Switzerland orders restaurants, bars and shops in most parts of the country to close at 7pm, as the country faces a persistently high level of new cases and deaths.
2020-12-11

Switzerland reports 9,386 new infections, a new record since the pandemic began, taking the total caseload in Switzerland and Liechtenstein to 145,044.
2020-10-29

A bus crash in Zurich, Switzerland, kills one person and injures 44 others.
2018-12-16

Forty one people are injured when a British tourist bus and four trucks are involved in a collision between Sempach and Sursee in Switzerland.
2015-09-4

Swiss National Bank reports a first half loss of 50 billion CHF as a result of the franc to euro peg removal earlier this year.
2015-07-31

The Sex Pistols' song "God Save the Queen", which was banned by the BBC, is to be re-released 35 years after its debut, in time for June's Diamond Jubilee.
2012-04-16