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More than a dozen people are injured in separate incidents after two trains derail during a storm in Switzerland.
2023-03-31

Eight people in Austria and two others in Switzerland are killed by a series of avalanches.
2023-02-5

Israel's government agrees to ban all travel to Germany, Italy, Belgium, Hungary, Morocco, Portugal, Canada, Switzerland, Turkey, and the U.S. without special permission beginning on December 22 due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
2021-12-20

Switzerland says it has been informed that a female Swiss hostage has been killed in Mali by jihadist group Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin. The exact circumstances of the killing are still unclear, according to Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis.
2020-10-9

Switzerland confirms its first case of coronavirus: a case in Ticino, on the border with Italy.
2020-02-25

Swiss voters reject a proposal to scrap the television licence fee that provides the majority of funding for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. Swiss voters also approve the right of the federal government to levy VAT and direct federal tax until 2025.
2018-03-4

Swiss voters approve a referendum to phase out nuclear power in Switzerland and increase renewable energy.
2017-05-21

A small Swiss-owned plane crashes in the Portuguese village of Tires, west of Lisbon, killing at least five people.
2017-04-17

Almost $1 billion linked to besieged Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and overthrown Egyptian and Tunisian leaders Hosni Mubarak and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali are found in Switzerland. Mubarak had previously denied having wealth in foreign bank accounts.
2011-05-2

Switzerland rejects a request from the United States to extradite Franco–Polish film director Roman Polanski to face sentencing on charges of unlawful sex with a minor in 1977.
2010-07-12