Sources: China.org.cn
Three people are killed when an Extra EA-400 plane crashes shortly after takeoff from Samedan Airport near La Punt Chamues-ch, Grisons, Switzerland. 2025-03-17
Voters in Switzerland accept the referendum to increase monthly pensions but reject the referendum to increase the retirement age. 2024-03-3
Voters in Switzerland elect the members of the Federal Assembly. Results show that the right-wing Swiss People's Party becomes the largest parliamentary faction after the election, gaining nine seats compared to the previous election. 2023-10-22
A court in Switzerland acquits Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini of illegally arranging payments while they served as presidents of FIFA and UEFA respectively. 2022-07-8
Two people are wounded after being stabbed at a store in Lugano, Switzerland. The attacker is a woman with ties to jihadist terrorism. The incident is being investigated as a terror attack. 2020-11-24
Four people are killed when a small plane crashes in Blatten, Valais, Switzerland. 2020-07-25
A bus travelling from Germany to Italy crashes in southern Switzerland, leaving one dead and 14 injured. 2018-10-14
A small Swiss-owned plane crashes in the Portuguese village of Tires, west of Lisbon, killing at least five people. 2017-04-17
More than a dozen alleged ISIS-linked, terrorist members of Rawti Shax, a European offshoot of the Iraqi Kurdish jihadist network Ansar al-Islam, are arrested in a coordinated, multi-nation sweep by police across Europe. The operation dismantled an integrated cell in Italy, the United Kingdom, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, and Germany. The group is accused of radicalizing fighters, planning attacks targeting Norwegian and British diplomats in the Middle East, and planning to establish a caliphate in Iraq's Kurdistan region. 2015-11-12
Six FIFA officials are detained in Switzerland for extradition to the United States in relation to allegations of corruption between the 1990s and now. Those arrested include Jeffrey Webb, Jack Warner, Eduardo Li, Eugenio Figueredo and José Maria Marin. 2015-05-27