Sources: Reuters
At Salzburg Zoo in Austria, a zookeeper is killed and another is injured by a rhinoceros in its enclosure. The zoo remains closed. 2023-09-12
Breaking from a historic tradition of Swiss neutrality, Switzerland says it will adopt all EU sanctions on Russia effective immediately in response to the invasion. Swiss banks are believed to hold billions of dollars in Russian funds. 2022-02-28
Switzerland reports its first case of the Lineage B.1.617 variant first detected in India. 2021-04-24
Switzerland reports 2,823 new cases in the past 24 hours, the highest record number in a single day since the pandemic began, thus taking the total to 68,704 confirmed cases in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. 2020-10-14
A bus crash in Zurich, Switzerland, kills one person and injures 44 others. 2018-12-16
An avalanche in the Alps kills three skiers and injures two in Valais, Switzerland. 2018-05-1
Swiss officials say police, based on a CIA tip, are hunting for at least four Islamic State-associated suspects believed to be plotting an attack in Geneva. 2015-12-10
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
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
Eleven rare Siberian tigers—of which only an estimated 300 remain in the wild—die of malnutrition after living in little cages and eating chicken bones at the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in Liaoning. 2010-03-12