Sources: Reuters
Switzerland joins the European Sky Shield Initiative to contribute to building a pan-European air and missile defense system, while also allowing the nation to train and purchase military systems with other European nations. 2024-10-18
Swiss multinational mining company Glencore agrees to pay the Democratic Republic of the Congo $180 million to settle corruption claims dating from 2007 to 2018. Glencore has admitted to bribing African officials in order to secure "improper business advantages", including in the DRC. 2022-12-5
Researchers at the Graubuenden University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland announce that they have calculated pi to 62.8 trillion digits, a new world record. 2021-08-17
Switzerland reports 3,105 new cases, the highest record number in a single day since the pandemic began, thus taking the total to 74,442 confirmed cases in Switzerland and Liechtenstein as the second wave of the pandemic grips the country. 2020-10-16
A bus crash in Zurich, Switzerland, kills one person and injures 44 others. 2018-12-16
Swiss National Bank reports a first half loss of 50 billion CHF as a result of the franc to euro peg removal earlier this year. 2015-07-31
John Kerry, the United States Secretary of State, is taken to hospital in Switzerland with a broken leg following a cycling accident in the nearby French town of Scionzier. Kerry had been in Geneva negotiating with the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. 2015-05-31
Danny Al Baaj, Syria’s representative at the UN Human Rights Council, defects to Switzerland. 2012-08-13
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
People in 16 countries in 44 cities from Adelaide to Zürich cause "scenes of chaos and joy in public places" by removing their trousers in public, with 3,000 people doing it in New York alone. [http:--news.bbc.co.uk-2-hi-americas-8451565.stm (BBC)] [https:--www.independent.co.uk-news-people-news-brief-encounter-pants-off-subway-day-goes-global-1864691.html ("The Independent")] [https:--ottawacitizen.com-health-Pantless+commuters+take+subways+urban+stunt-2428713-story.html ("Ottawa Citizen")]date=August 2019 2010-01-11