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Switzerland joins the European Sky Shield Initiative to contribute to building a pan-European air and missile defense system, while also allowing the nation to train and purchase military systems with other European nations.
2024-10-18

A court in Geneva, Switzerland, sentences Indian-born billionaire Prakash Hinduja and three of his family members to four years in prison for exploiting domestic workers at their villa in Cologny.
2024-06-21

The two-day Global Peace Summit, dedicated to the discussion of "Ukraine's Peace Formula", ends at the Bürgenstock Resort in Switzerland.
2024-06-16

The High Negotiations Committee, Syria's main opposition group, will attend Monday's U.N.-brokered peace talks in Geneva, Switzerland, a day shy of the fifth anniversary of the start of the conflict, and two-plus weeks into the ceasefire agreement. Although fighting continues, a significant drop in violence has been seen during the truce. The first round of Geneva talks collapsed on Feb. 3 during a government offensive against rebels in Aleppo.
2016-03-11

A Swiss Boeing F-A-18 military jet crashes in France while on a training mission, injuring the pilot. The Swiss defense ministry has said it did not know what caused the accident.
2015-10-14

Swiss National Bank reports a first half loss of 50 billion CHF as a result of the franc to euro peg removal earlier this year.
2015-07-31

An unnamed gunman, 33, kills 3 women and injures 2 men in the village of Daillon, Switzerland, opening fire from his apartment, and pursuing the attack in the street; he threatened police when they arrived and was shot and hospitalized (it is speculated this will renew debate about males retaining their arms after their mandated military service). [http:--www.chicagotribune.com-news-sns-rt-us-swiss-shootingbre90202z-20130102,0,1757932.story (Chicago Tribune)]date=August 2019
2013-01-2

Belgium holds a day of national mourning in memory of the victims of the Sierre bus collision in Switzerland earlier this week.
2012-03-16

Oswald Grübel, chief executive of Swiss bank UBS, resigns in the wake of a rogue trading scandal.
2011-09-24

Libya detains Irish nationals at its airport in Tripoli due to the escalation of a dispute between it and Switzerland which has led Libya to refuse anyone from the Schengen area, despite Ireland not being a member.
2010-02-16