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Voters in Switzerland accept the referendum to increase monthly pensions but reject the referendum to increase the retirement age.
2024-03-3

The National Council of Switzerland votes 151–29 to approve a ban on full-face coverings, such as burqas worn by a small minority of Muslim women. Violators of the ban could face a fine of up to 1,000 Swiss francs.
2023-10-29

In a medical first, a paralyzed man is able to walk naturally through the use of electronic brain implants implanted by Swiss scientists.
2023-05-24

An icefall kills two mountain climbers and injures nine others in the Alps of Valais, Switzerland.
2022-05-27

David W. Goodall, an Australian scientist aged 104, announces his intention to travel assisted by Exit International to Switzerland to end his own life. Goodall is not terminally ill but says his quality of life has deteriorated with age.
2018-04-30

The leaders of northern and southern Cyprus meet in Switzerland to restart talks about reuniting the island.
2016-11-7

A Swiss Boeing F-A-18 military jet crashes in France while on a training mission, injuring the pilot. The Swiss defense ministry has said it did not know what caused the accident.
2015-10-14

The Large Hadron Collider at CERN centre in Geneva, Switzerland has been restarted after a two-year conversion.
2015-04-5

Freedom Flotilla II: The Greek Coast Guard pursues with water cannons then boards the ship carrying activists from Belgium, Canada, Italy, Switzerland and Turkey after an unsuccessful attempt to leave Crete harbour.
2011-07-4

Swiss businessman Max Goeldi, who hid in the Swiss embassy in Libya for 19 months during a diplomatic argument, is taken away in handcuffs and thrown into jail while his colleague Rachid Hamdani is deported.
2010-02-22