Sources: Reuters
Five people are injured when a passenger train derails near Goppenstein, Ferden, Valais, Switzerland. 2026-02-16
Voters in Switzerland elect the members of the Federal Assembly. Results show that the right-wing Swiss People's Party becomes the largest parliamentary faction after the election, gaining nine seats compared to the previous election. 2023-10-22
The Swiss go to the polls to decide four ballot questions. The voters agree to raise the retirement age for women to 65 and to increase the value added tax rates from 7.7% to 8.1%. However, voters rejected the proposal to exempt domestic bonds from taxation and to ban intensive animal farming. 2022-09-25
An unusually strong and early heat wave increases temperatures above 40 C in Spain. Seville records a temperature of 41.0 C, beating its all-time high for May, while the hottest settlement, Andújar, ties the record with 42.3 C. Several settlements in France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and western Austria beat all-time high records for the month. 2022-05-20
The Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs vetoes Germany's request to re-export Swiss ammunition to Ukraine on the basis of Switzerland's neutrality. 2022-04-24
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 bus crash in Zurich, Switzerland, kills one person and injures 44 others. 2018-12-16
David W. Goodall, an Australian scientist aged 104, announces his intention to travel assisted by Exit International to Switzerland to end his own life. Goodall is not terminally ill but says his quality of life has deteriorated with age. 2018-04-30
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
A Tel Aviv judge orders the opening of safe deposit boxes believed to contain manuscripts and drawings by Bohemian writer Franz Kafka at a bank in Zürich. 2010-07-19