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Switzerland suspends all new and pending asylum requests and announces that they will review their asylum policy following the fall of the Assad regime.
2024-12-10

In response to yesterday's leak of client data from Credit Suisse, Switzerland's second largest bank, the EU's European Commission is asked to "re-evaluate Switzerland as a high-risk money-laundering country" by the European People's Party, which is the group with the largest number of seats in the European Parliament.
2022-02-21

Leaked data from Credit Suisse exposes the identities of over 30,000 of the bank's clients whose anonymous numbered Swiss bank accounts, which collectively held over $100 billion, had allowed them to keep their identities secret. Its clients included heads of state (such as king Abdullah II of Jordan), human rights abusers, drug traffickers, intelligence officials, and individuals under sanctions or involved in financial crimes such as tax evasion or corruption, among others. The secret data from Switzerland's second largest bank was leaked about 1 year ago to the German newspaper "Süddeutsche Zeitung" and was analyzed by the non-profit Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and 46 other news organizations, including "The New York Times", "Le Monde" and "The Guardian".
2022-02-20

Swissmedic approves the authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for use in Switzerland.
2020-12-19

Switzerland orders restaurants, bars and shops in most parts of the country to close at 7pm, as the country faces a persistently high level of new cases and deaths.
2020-12-11

Police surround the Champ-Dollon prison in Geneva, Switzerland, after dozens of prisoners refuse to return to their cells because of new coronavirus measures.
2020-04-3

The United Kingdom and Switzerland sign a trade continuity agreement to maintain current trade relations post-Brexit.
2019-02-11

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

Forty one people are injured when a British tourist bus and four trucks are involved in a collision between Sempach and Sursee in Switzerland.
2015-09-4

Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the Czech Republic are hit by floods after days of heavy rain.
2013-06-2