Sources: Financial Times
Eight people in Austria and two others in Switzerland are killed by a series of avalanches. 2023-02-5
Switzerland recommends that people aged above 65 years old receive the booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and should be done at least six months after they received their second dose. The booster dose for that age group will begin in mid-November. 2021-10-26
Switzerland announces that it will ban gatherings of more than 15 people and issues a nationwide obligation to wear masks in all indoor public places and public transport in order to combat the spread of COVID-19. The new restrictions will take effect tomorrow. 2020-10-18
Switzerland confirms its first case of coronavirus: a case in Ticino, on the border with Italy. 2020-02-25
Switzerland's Federal Assembly votes to officially withdraw the country's application to join the European Union. Following the vote, foreign minister Didier Burkhalter was quoted as saying that the government will now tell the EU to “consider the application as withdrawn”. 2016-06-16
Syrian government airstrikes, and rockets from Islamist insurgents, hit many neighborhoods in Aleppo. Fatalities are reported on both sides of the city. This continued fighting threatens the truce and peace talks being held in Geneva, Switzerland. UN envoy Staffan de Mistura says he will meet the government delegation Monday, and will sit down with the main opposition High Negotiations Committee later in the week. 2016-04-16
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
One person is killed and fourteen people injured in an explosion in the Swiss city of Yverdon-les-Bains. 2011-10-25