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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

A Portuguese man is stabbed to death during a suspected jihadist attack in Morges, Switzerland. The victim was chosen at random, as the attacker entered a shop and stabbed him. The suspect had been known to the Federal Intelligence Service since 2017 for dissemination of jihadist propaganda and had been arrested in April 2019 following an arson attack.
2020-09-13

A bus and a truck collide near Winterthur, Switzerland, injuring 15.
2018-04-18

United Nations special envoy Staffan de Mistura says, assuming the ceasefire holds, he will reconvene formal peace talks in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday, March 7.
2016-02-26

The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland opens criminal proceedings against the President of FIFA Sepp Blatter.
2015-09-25

Six FIFA officials are detained in Switzerland for extradition to the United States in relation to allegations of corruption between the 1990s and now. Those arrested include Jeffrey Webb, Jack Warner, Eduardo Li, Eugenio Figueredo and José Maria Marin.
2015-05-27

World leaders are meeting in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum.
2014-01-20

Rogue trader at Swiss bank UBS Kweku Adoboli is found guilty and is sentenced to seven years in prison for his role in the 2011 UBS rogue trader scandal.
2012-11-20

One person is killed and 42 injured after a Swiss tourist train derails in the Alps.
2010-07-23

Swiss businessman Max Goeldi, who hid in the Swiss embassy in Libya for 19 months during a diplomatic argument, is taken away in handcuffs and thrown into jail while his colleague Rachid Hamdani is deported.
2010-02-22