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Switzerland reopens its embassy in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, after closing it during the Gulf War in 1991.
2024-09-3

Five skiers are found dead after they went missing two days ago while travelling from the town of Zermatt to the village of Arolla in Switzerland. A sixth skier is still missing.
2024-03-11

The first secretary at the Swiss embassy in Tehran, Iran, is found dead after accidentally falling from the tower where she lived.
2021-05-4

A team of physicists at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, assisted by colleagues in Switzerland and the United States, successfully returns the state of a quantum computer a fraction of a second into the past.
2019-03-13

Police in Switzerland say that all 20 occupants of a World War II-era Junkers Ju 52 plane that crashed yesterday on the flanks of the Piz Segnas mountain are dead.
2018-08-5

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

Italian police seize 5,361 ancient artifacts worth $64 million from a Swiss-Italian trafficking ring. The discoveries come after various raids on warehouses against Italian art dealer Gianfranco Becchina, who owns an art gallery in Switzerland.
2015-01-21

The world's two largest cement manufacturers, LaFarge of France and Holcim of Switzerland, agree to a merger that would create a firm with a market value of $55 billion.
2014-04-6

Myanmar democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi returns to Europe after more than two decades for a European tour, including Norway, Switzerland, France, Ireland and Britain.
2012-06-13

A small explosion occurs in the basement of a hotel in Davos, Switzerland, close to where the World Economic Forum is taking place. No one is injured and a boiler is blamed.
2011-01-27