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In a case concerning regulations requiring the South African athlete Caster Semenya to decrease her natural testosterone levels to be allowed to participate in the female category, the European Court of Human Rights finds that Switzerland violated her right to a fair hearing, requiring the case to be sent back to Swiss courts.
2025-07-10

Switzerland confirms its first case of coronavirus: a case in Ticino, on the border with Italy.
2020-02-25

After finishing a hill-climb run on the trail in St. Gallen, Switzerland, The Grand Tour presenter, Richard Hammond failed to stop his Rimac Concept One, crashed it through a safety barrier and rolled over several times as it careened down the hill. It eventually came to a rest, upside-down, near the bottom. Hammond remained conscious during the accident and told first responders not to pull him out of the wreckage by his feet, as he thought he had broken his leg. Shortly after Hammond was removed from the Rimac, the wreckage burst into flames.
2017-06-10

In a referendum, Switzerland rejects a proposal to abolish commercial nuclear power by 2029.
2016-11-27

Voters in Switzerland go to the polls to vote in a number of referenda including a proposal for a basic income of 2,500 francs a month.
2016-06-5

Swiss citizens vote on four referenda, including one, proposed by the right-wing Swiss People's Party, that would automatically expel foreigners who commit two minor crimes. Current law calls for deportation of non-citizens convicted of murder or sexual violence.
2016-02-28

Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the Czech Republic are hit by floods after days of heavy rain.
2013-06-2

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

One person is killed and 42 injured after a Swiss tourist train derails in the Alps.
2010-07-23

Swiss businessman Max Goeldi, who hid in the Swiss embassy in Libya for 19 months during a diplomatic argument, is taken away in handcuffs and thrown into jail while his colleague Rachid Hamdani is deported.
2010-02-22