Sources: Reuters
Three people are killed when an Extra EA-400 plane crashes shortly after takeoff from Samedan Airport near La Punt Chamues-ch, Grisons, Switzerland. 2025-03-17
Residents of Switzerland vote on four national issues, including a highly debated expansion programme for national highways. 2024-11-24
An Amur tiger at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Columbus, Ohio, U.S., dies from COVID-19, making it the first animal at the zoo to die from the disease. 2022-06-30
U.S. Navy veteran Michael R. White is released from Iranian custody. White was under house arrest for nearly two years and is now en-route to Zurich, Switzerland. 2020-06-4
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
A bus crash in Zurich, Switzerland, kills one person and injures 44 others. 2018-12-16
Various billionaires, world leaders, and investors gather in Davos, Switzerland to discuss economic issues. 2018-01-23
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
Switzerland ceases to deport asylum seekers in response to the death of a Nigerian man at Zürich Airport as he was being forcefully deported. Nigeria condemns the occurrence. 2010-03-19
Voters in Switzerland take part in a referendum on whether to provide lawyers for non-human animals and other issues. 2010-03-7