Sources: China.org.cn
Voters in Switzerland approve three measures in a referendum. These measures will require streaming services to invest 4% of their revenue in Switzerland into domestic filmmaking; allow the government to increase the Swiss contribution in Frontex, the EU border agency; and change the default system of organ donation from explicit to presumed consent. 2022-05-15
Switzerland's Federal Office of Public Health reports a record of 8,616 new infections in the last 24 hours, bringing the total to 135,658. In addition, in the last two weeks, the positivity rate has risen from 14% to 32%, higher than the peak of 26% during the first wave. 2020-10-28
The number of new cases in Switzerland and Liechtenstein increases by 1,487 in a single day, a record since the beginning of the outbreak, according to data from Switzerland's Federal Office of Public Health. 2020-10-9
Voters in Switzerland elect the members of the country's Federal Assembly and Council. Provisional results show the Swiss People's Party retaining their plurality, and that the Green Party has become the fourth-largest party. 2019-10-20
Twelve Portuguese nationals, who were residents of Fribourg, Switzerland, are killed in a head-on collision between their minibus and a truck, on a highway 300 kilometers (185 miles) south of Paris, France. The only survivor from the bus is the driver; the two Italian occupants of the truck are slightly injured. 2016-03-25
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
John Kerry, the United States Secretary of State, is taken to hospital in Switzerland with a broken leg following a cycling accident in the nearby French town of Scionzier. Kerry had been in Geneva negotiating with the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. 2015-05-31
Rogue trader at Swiss bank UBS Kweku Adoboli is found guilty and is sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in the 2011 UBS rogue trader scandal. 2012-11-20
Almost $1 billion linked to besieged Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and overthrown Egyptian and Tunisian leaders Hosni Mubarak and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali are found in Switzerland. Mubarak had previously denied having wealth in foreign bank accounts. 2011-05-2
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision based in Basel, Switzerland, increases capital requirements for banks around the world to be introduced on 1 January 2015. 2010-09-13