Sources: Reuters
Five skiers are found dead after they went missing two days ago while travelling from the town of Zermatt to the village of Arolla in Switzerland. A sixth skier is still missing. 2024-03-11
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet meets with Assange’s lawyers and his wife in Geneva, Switzerland. 2022-08-27
Switzerland recommends that people aged above 65 years old receive the booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and should be done at least six months after they received their second dose. The booster dose for that age group will begin in mid-November. 2021-10-26
Switzerland begins a mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19 using the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine tozinameran. A ninety-year-old woman in Lucerne is the first Swiss citizen to receive the vaccine. 2020-12-23
A bus crash in Zurich, Switzerland, kills one person and injures 44 others. 2018-12-16
Voters in Switzerland approve a referendum that makes it easier for third-generation immigrants to become citizens. 2017-02-12
Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir says the country's recent tensions with Iran will not interfere with Syrian peace talks scheduled to begin in Geneva, Switzerland, later this month. 2016-01-5
Voters in Switzerland go to the polls for a federal election, with the Green Liberal Party of Switzerland gaining the most seats compared to the 2007 election, and the Swiss People's Party losing eight seats but remaining the biggest party in the Federal Assembly. 2011-10-23
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