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Around 270 people are airlifted from a Glacier 3000 aerial tramway on the Tsanfleuron Glacier in the Diablerets massif in Switzerland following an electrical failure.
2023-07-20

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

Switzerland lifts almost all of its COVID-19-related restrictions, with people no longer needing to show COVID-19 vaccine certificates to enter public venues, due to confidence that infection rates had been uncoupled from hospitalization.
2022-02-16

Irish firm Smyths Toys agrees to buy 93 Toys R Us stores in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland plus four related online shops.
2018-04-21

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

Swiss police in Geneva, following yesterday's CIA tip, arrest two Syrian nationals. Apparently, traces of explosives were found in their car. President Simonetta Sommaruga says, "There is currently no indication that there was a concrete attack planned."
2015-12-11

Voters in Switzerland go to the polls for a federal election. Results show the anti-immigration Swiss People's Party winning the election with at least 29.5% of the vote, a record election result for the nationalist party.
2015-10-18

One person is killed and fourteen people injured in an explosion in the Swiss city of Yverdon-les-Bains.
2011-10-25

President Muammar Gaddafi of Libya declares a holy war on Switzerland.
2010-02-26