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A Swiss appeals court convicts Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan of rape and sexual coercion, sentencing Ramadan to three years in prison, with two years suspension.
2024-09-10

A freight train derails in the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland, causing the tunnel to be closed for at least six days.
2023-08-11

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

Four people are killed when a small plane crashes in Blatten, Valais, Switzerland.
2020-07-25

Germany closes its borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark and Luxembourg.
2020-03-15

A team of physicists at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, assisted by colleagues in Switzerland and the United States, successfully returns the state of a quantum computer a fraction of a second into the past.
2019-03-13

An avalanche in the Alps kills three skiers and injures two in Valais, Switzerland.
2018-05-1

Thirteen Catalan separatist politicians appear before the Spanish Supreme Court. Marta Rovira, who is "self-exiled" in Switzerland, does not attend.
2018-03-23

The world's longest and deepest rail tunnel, the 57 km (35 miles) Gotthard Base Tunnel, opens in Switzerland.
2016-06-1

One person is killed and 42 injured after a Swiss tourist train derails in the Alps.
2010-07-23