Sources: ABC News
Five people, four from Norway and one from Switzerland, are killed in two separate avalanches while off-piste skiing in the French Alps. 2025-01-29
Russia restricts diplomats, journalists, and politicians from the European Union, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein from obtaining a visa by a simplified procedure. 2022-04-4
Switzerland begins to implement a mandatory negative COVID-19 test result for travellers who have not been vaccinated or who have not recovered from COVID-19 upon entering the country in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19. 2021-09-20
An avalanche at the Crans-Montana ski resort in Switzerland injures four, one seriously, with fears that up to a dozen skiers may have been hit according to witnesses. 240 rescuers including police and army search the affected piste area. No further victims are immediately found, or missing persons reported. 2019-02-19
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
A small Swiss-owned plane crashes in the Portuguese village of Tires, west of Lisbon, killing at least five people. 2017-04-17
An unnamed gunman, 33, kills 3 women and injures 2 men in the village of Daillon, Switzerland, opening fire from his apartment, and pursuing the attack in the street; he threatened police when they arrived and was shot and hospitalized (it is speculated this will renew debate about males retaining their arms after their mandated military service). [http:--www.chicagotribune.com-news-sns-rt-us-swiss-shootingbre90202z-20130102,0,1757932.story (Chicago Tribune)]date=August 2019 2013-01-2
Voters in Switzerland go to the polls for a federal election, with the Green Liberal Party of Switzerland gaining the most seats compared to the 2007 election, and the Swiss People's Party losing eight seats but remaining the biggest party in the Federal Assembly. 2011-10-23
Italian MEP and diplomat Mario Borghezio is expelled and given a bloody nose during an attempt to access the Suvretta House luxury hotel hosting the Bilderberg Group's secretive annual conference in the Swiss resort of St. Moritz. 2011-06-12
One person is killed and 42 injured after a Swiss tourist train derails in the Alps. 2010-07-23