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Voters in Switzerland reject limits on healthcare spending and an initiative against compulsory vaccination, while approving the initiative of a new law on electricity.
2024-06-9

A freight train derails in the Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland, causing the tunnel to be closed for at least six days.
2023-08-11

Switzerland and Israel confirm their first cases of monkeypox.
2022-05-21

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

Swiss voters reject a proposal to scrap the television licence fee that provides the majority of funding for the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. Swiss voters also approve the right of the federal government to levy VAT and direct federal tax until 2025.
2018-03-4

Several Zika virus cases have been reported in Denmark, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom and Switzerland.
2016-01-27

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

Switzerland adopts European Union sanctions against Iran’s energy, nuclear and weapons sectors, but an 18-22 billion euro Swiss EGL gas contract with the National Iranian Gas Export Company has not been canceled.
2011-01-26

The Gotthard Base Tunnel in the Swiss Alps becomes the world's longest railway tunnel, as final breakthrough occurs on the east bore.
2010-10-15

Dario Cologna secures Switzerland's first ever Olympic cross-country gold medal and Norway delivers its poorest ever cross-country Olympic performance in the men's 15km freestyle cross-country competition
2010-02-15