Sources: Reuters
A Swiss appeals court convicts Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan of rape and sexual coercion, sentencing Ramadan to three years in prison, with two years suspension. 2024-09-10
Voters in Switzerland reject limits on healthcare spending and an initiative against compulsory vaccination, while approving the initiative of a new law on electricity. 2024-06-9
The United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Italy, Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Germany suspend humanitarian aid to UNRWA over allegations that some UNRWA staff members were involved in the Hamas-led attack on Israel. 2024-01-27
An icefall kills two mountain climbers and injures nine others in the Alps of Valais, Switzerland. 2022-05-27
Swiss newspaper "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" reports that Mossad was responsible for three bombings of German and Swiss firms in 1981 to try to halt Iranian and Pakistani development of nuclear weapons. 2022-01-2
Swiss voters head to the polls to vote on a proposal to mandate quotas for affordable housing in new residential development projects, and whether to criminalize discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. 2020-02-9
A bus crash in Zurich, Switzerland, kills one person and injures 44 others. 2018-12-16
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
Swiss referendum, 2013: Voters in Switzerland pass measures limiting CEO pay and outlawing golden parachutes. 2013-03-3
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