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At least four people are killed and two others are missing after landslides and torrential floods in Ticino and Valais, Switzerland.
2024-06-30

Three people are missing following thunderstorms and landslides in southeastern Switzerland.
2024-06-22

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

Six people are injured during a mass stabbing at a railway station in Zofingen, Switzerland. The suspect, who has suffered self-inflicted wounds, is detained. His motives are unknown.
2024-05-15

Switzerland lifts almost all of its COVID-19-related restrictions, with people no longer needing to show COVID-19 vaccine certificates to enter public venues, due to confidence that infection rates had been uncoupled from hospitalization.
2022-02-16

Swiss citizens head to the polls to decide on two popular initiatives and three facultative referendums regarding a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, police measures to combat terrorism, the existing carbon tax policy, and a potential nationwide ban on the use of synthetic pesticides.
2021-06-13

Switzerland reports 2,823 new cases in the past 24 hours, the highest record number in a single day since the pandemic began, thus taking the total to 68,704 confirmed cases in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
2020-10-14

United Nations special envoy Staffan de Mistura says, assuming the ceasefire holds, he will reconvene formal peace talks in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, March 7.
2016-02-26

Swiss officials say police, based on a CIA tip, are hunting for at least four Islamic State-associated suspects believed to be plotting an attack in Geneva.
2015-12-10