Sources: Reuters
Residents of Switzerland vote on four national issues, including a highly debated expansion programme for national highways. 2024-11-24
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
Switzerland reports its first two case of new variant of SARS-CoV-2 from South Africa after two people tested positive for COVID-19 despite having no clear traveling history to South Africa. 2020-12-28
Switzerland announces that it will ban gatherings of more than 15 people and issues a nationwide obligation to wear masks in all indoor public places and public transport in order to combat the spread of COVID-19. The new restrictions will take effect tomorrow. 2020-10-18
Police surround the Champ-Dollon prison in Geneva, Switzerland, after dozens of prisoners refuse to return to their cells because of new coronavirus measures. 2020-04-3
A bus crash in Zurich, Switzerland, kills one person and injures 44 others. 2018-12-16
The Philippines recovers US $29 million from Ferdinand Marcos' bank accounts in Switzerland and Singapore. 2014-02-12
Swiss bank Credit Suisse announces plans to cut 2,000 jobs due to poor profit results. 2011-07-28
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
American photographer Jill Sonsteby from Jacksonville, Florida captures a zebra putting its head inside the mouth of a hippopotamus and surviving at Zürich Zoologischer Garten. 2010-03-12