Switzerland has announced more flood warnings after high winds and heavy rain battered the country between Monday night and Tuesday morning. The storms caused sections of the A2 motorway to temporarily close on Tuesday. Rain, hail and winds of up to...

The Swiss government’s Covid-19 advisory panel has warned about the recent increase in new infections due to the more contagious Delta variant. The science task force said the dominance of the Delta variant would likely result in an increasing num...

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has appointed Zurich Insurance Chief Investment Officer Urban Angehrn as its new boss. Angehrn, 56, worked for 14 years at Zurich Insurance. He previously held positions at Winterthur Insuranc...

The glider and small light aircraft that crashed in high mountains in south-eastern Switzerland last month, resulting in five deaths, collided mid-air, an investigation has revealed. On Tuesday, the Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board (S...

The Swiss and Saudi stock exchanges have signed a memorandum of understanding on future cooperation at a high-level meeting in Switzerland. The SIX and Tadawul stock exchanges signed the agreement at the third “financial dialogue” between the tw...

Swiss Humanitarian Aid has sent 40 respirators and 45 oxygen concentrators to the Mongolian capital, Ulaanbaatar, with a total value of around CHF850,000 ($930,000). “In view of the public health situation in Mongolia and in response to a request ...

The number of Swiss start-ups launched has risen significantly in the first six months of 2021 while the number of companies filing for bankruptcy has decreased, studies have shown. In the first half of 2021 over 26,000 new companies were added to S...

Efforts to improve plastic recycling in Switzerland have shown a mixed bag of results among cities and towns, ranging from “exemplary” to “no significant effort”. Greenpeace Switzerland conducted a study on single-use packaging and other dis...

Thousands of Italian football fans celebrated their team’s victory at Euro 2020 on Sunday night by singing, chanting and honking their way through Swiss cities. Italians are the largest group of foreign residents in Switzerland, making up about 15...

Areas of the Swiss capital Bern and some Alpine region lakes are still on alert for possible flooding after Switzerland after more heavy rainfall. More rain is expected during the coming week. Central Switzerland was also hit by strong storms late S...

Swiss health authorities want to encourage more migrants and young people to get vaccinated against Covid-19, the SonntagsBlick newspaper says. The move comes as vaccination rates stall across the country, despite there being plenty of vaccines avai...

Climate change is causing extreme weather, also in Switzerland. A climate taskforce – like the Covid 19 science task force – makes sense, a leading Swiss climate scientist says. Humankind should get used to heatwaves, fires, torrential rain, lan...

The Swiss Gian Franco Kasper, recently retired after 23 years as president of the International Ski Federation (FIS), has died, the governing body said on Saturday. He was 77. The cause of Kasper’s death was not given. He had not taken part in the...

The interests of small innovative countries must be taken into account in international corporate tax measures, says Swiss Finance Minister Ueli Maurer, who has been attending the G20 meeting in Italy. Discussed at the meeting of finance ministers a...

Environment Minister Simonetta Sommaruga has welcomed progress on environmental protection following a visit to Ghana and Senegal. She is now looking ahead to the COP26 global environmental meeting in Glasgow later this year. “Ghana and Senegal h...

People in Switzerland have been looking for bigger or second homes during the coronavirus pandemic, fuelling housing shortages and pushing prices up. This is despite a more modest growth in the population, which is one of the main drivers of demand...

The morale of the Swiss population seems to have improved due to better management of the pandemic, a new Covid-related survey finds. The mood of the Swiss population has ebbed and flowed over the past 15 months. Like last summer, optimism now seems...

The western Swiss city of Lausanne has been chosen to set up an international observatory for the promotion of gender equality in sport, host canton Vaud said on Friday. This is in line with the Kazan Action Plan adopted by an intergovernmental con...

The pace of vaccination in Switzerland has dropped sharply since mid-June, and the pool of people willing to be vaccinated may soon be exhausted, according to Swiss public broadcaster RTS. Unless the trend is reversed, this means the percentage of t...

Emergency telephone numbers are working again in Switzerland after a technical failure caused a nationwide outage late Thursday, the national operator Swisscom said on Friday morning. This is the second such national breakdown in 18 months. Emergenc...

Spectators have been banned from most Olympic events at the Tokyo Games after a fourth Covid state of emergency was declared in the Japanese capital on Thursday. Participating athletes will meanwhile face drastic safety measures, says Olympic Games E...

At the 2021 edition of the conference in Vilnius, Swiss foreign minister Ignazio Cassis officially accepted the handover of the 2022 chair from Latvia. The end of this year's Ukraine Reform Conference (URC) also marked the end of Cassis’ five-day ...

French comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala has been fined by a Geneva court for racist content during performances in Switzerland, including denying the existence of Nazi gas chambers. Having found the comedian guilty of the charges on Thursday, t...

A popular Swiss price comparison website has been shut down by ransomware attackers demanding $400,000 (CHF370,000) in cryptocurrencies to put it back online. Comparis.ch, which racks up around 80 million visits a year, is used by consumers to compa...

Opponents have handed in signatures to force another vote challenging the law underpinning many of the government’s coronavirus measures. Less than a month ago, 60.2% of the population approved the Covid-19 law, which politicians adopted last Sept...

An organisation set up in Switzerland to prevent sport from harming society and athletes has been granted full association status in Geneva. The Centre for Sport and Human Rights was awarded the status of an independent non-profit association under ...

The continued use of restraints during forced deportations from Switzerland has again been criticised by a monitoring body. The rebuke coincides with government attempts to force Covid-19 tests for deportees and an ongoing probe into alleged violence...

From Friday July 9, the Swiss Covid Certificate will be valid in EU countries, Iceland and Norway. On Thursday, the EU Commission confirmed that the Swiss certificate – which shows if the holder has been vaccinated, tested, or recovered from Covid...

COMCO has concluded a major investigation of nine car-leasing firms for rate-fixing and fined Ford Credit Switzerland some CHF7.7 million ($8.39 million). The ruling on Thursday comes two years after COMCO fined the other eight companies around CHF3...

Switzerland and Ghana want to jointly promote the issue of electronic waste internationally, saying e-waste should be among the exports subject to authorisation worldwide. Environment Minister Simonetta Sommaruga signed a letter to this effect in Acc...