Sources: Financial Times
Five people, four from Norway and one from Switzerland, are killed in two separate avalanches while off-piste skiing in the French Alps. 2025-01-29
Many countries, including South Korea, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland, announce plans to evacuate all of their citizens or nationals from Sudan. 2023-04-21
The first secretary at the Swiss embassy in Tehran, Iran, is found dead after accidentally falling from the tower where she lived. 2021-05-4
Thirteen Catalan separatist politicians appear before the Spanish Supreme Court. Marta Rovira, who is "self-exiled" in Switzerland, does not attend. 2018-03-23
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
Several Zika virus cases have been reported in Denmark, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. 2016-01-27
Longtime FIFA corporate sponsors -- Coca-Cola Co., McDonald's, Visa Inc., and Budweiser owner Anheuser-Busch InBev -- demand FIFA President Sepp Blatter step down immediately following last week's announcement of his criminal investigation by the Swiss attorney general. Blatter refused. 2015-10-2
Swiss referendum, 2013: Voters in Switzerland pass measures limiting CEO pay and outlawing golden parachutes. 2013-03-3
In Switzerland, the people of Zurich vote to reject a ban on assisted suicide in the country, and also reject the restricting of assisted suicide to Zurich residents only. British pro-euthanasia group Dignity in Dying hails the result as a "brave decision". 2011-05-15
Iran passes on to Tehran's Swiss embassy what it describes as evidence proving that the United States Central Intelligence Agency abducted Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri. 2010-07-4