Sources: ABC News
Switzerland orders restaurants, bars and shops in most parts of the country to close at 7pm, as the country faces a persistently high level of new cases and deaths. 2020-12-11
Switzerland reports 9,386 new infections, a new record since the pandemic began, taking the total caseload in Switzerland and Liechtenstein to 145,044. 2020-10-29
In an act of cooperation that is rare in recent years, Iran releases Princeton PhD candidate Wang Xiyue while the United States releases stem cell researcher Massoud Soleimani in a prisoner exchange. Both U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif thank the Swiss government for facilitating the swap. 2019-12-7
Voters in Switzerland approve a referendum that makes it easier for third-generation immigrants to become citizens. 2017-02-12
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN centre in Geneva, Switzerland has been restarted after a two-year conversion. 2015-04-5
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
Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, notorious for the banned "God Save the Queen" single, dies in Switzerland. 2010-04-8
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