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A court in Switzerland acquits Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini of illegally arranging payments while they served as presidents of FIFA and UEFA respectively.
2022-07-8

The Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs vetoes Germany's request to re-export Swiss ammunition to Ukraine on the basis of Switzerland's neutrality.
2022-04-24

Switzerland begins to implement a mandatory negative COVID-19 test result for travellers who have not been vaccinated or who have not recovered from COVID-19 upon entering the country in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
2021-09-20

Swiss citizens head to the polls to decide on two popular initiatives and three facultative referendums regarding a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, police measures to combat terrorism, the existing carbon tax policy, and a potential nationwide ban on the use of synthetic pesticides.
2021-06-13

Swiss research, published in the medical journal "The Lancet", found that paracetamol -- sold as Tylenol and as a generic, acetaminophen, in the United States -- was not effective at reducing pain or improving movement in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee or hip. The analysis examined 74 randomly-selected trials published between 1980 and 2015 with 58,556 patients who had osteoarthritis. The study did find the prescription drug diclofenac, sold in the U.S. as Cataflam or Voltaren, is the most effective NSAID available. McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the makers of Tylenol, disagree with the study's conclusions.
2016-03-18

A spokeswoman for the public prosecutor in Switzerland confirms existence of open criminal investigations regarding several people who may have taken part in manipulation of the currency exchange markets; such investigations are also underway in the United States and Britain.
2014-11-13

2013 Menznau shooting: Four people (including the perpetrator) are killed and six injured in a shooting at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland.
2013-02-27

One person is killed and fourteen people injured in an explosion in the Swiss city of Yverdon-les-Bains.
2011-10-25

Parcel bombs explode at the Mexican, Russian and Swiss embassies in Greece. Similar packages were sent or addressed to the embassies of Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, Germany and the Netherlands over the past two days.
2010-11-2

Australian opera singer Dame Joan Sutherland dies in Switzerland after a lengthy illness.
2010-10-11