Sources: Swiss Info
Switzerland reopens its embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, after closing it during the Gulf War in 1991. 2024-09-3
The village of Brienz-Brinzauls in Grisons, Switzerland, is narrowly missed by an overnight 2 e6m3 abbr=unit rockslide. The village of 128 residents had been evacuated in May after scientists predicted the imminent rockslide. 2023-06-16
Breaking from a historic tradition of Swiss neutrality, Switzerland says it will adopt all EU sanctions on Russia effective immediately in response to the invasion. Swiss banks are believed to hold billions of dollars in Russian funds. 2022-02-28
An eight-year-old boy is killed and his mother injured after being pushed by a man into the path of an oncoming train at Frankfurt's main station, in Hesse, Germany. The attacker, a 40-year-old immigrant Eritrean man who lives in Switzerland, also attempted to knock a third person onto the tracks. The suspect and the victims did not know each another. 2019-07-29
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
In a referendum, Switzerland rejects a proposal to abolish commercial nuclear power by 2029. 2016-11-27
The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland opens criminal proceedings against the President of FIFA Sepp Blatter. 2015-09-25
Iran starts loading fuel into the Bushehr Nuclear Plant, its first nuclear power plant. 2010-10-26
Tens of thousands of Germans protest in Berlin against the plans of the German government to extend the life of the country's nuclear power plants by another ten years. 2010-09-18