The southern canton of Ticino has been hardest hit by forest fires as a drought that began in early December has prompted several regions to raise their wildfire risk levels to “severe”. Authorities in Centovalli in Ticino were able to bring a l...

Zurich police have warned that scammers claiming to be collecting funds for people caught up in the Ukraine war are using email solicitations and fraudulent websites to defraud donors. The cybercrime unit said on Saturday people should be wary of em...

Olga, which tells the story of a young Ukrainian gymnast taking refuge in Switzerland during the pro-European Maidan revolution in 2013-2014, has won best feature film at this year’s Swiss Film Awards. The movie by 28-year-old Elie Grappe also won...

The Swiss government on Friday adopted additional sanctions against Russia for its ongoing war in Ukraine but did not ban the Russian state TV channels Sputnik and Russia Today like the European Union. Switzerland joins the sanctions measures adopte...

Switzerland should boost transnational military cooperation and improve its ability to counter cyber-attacks, says liberal think-tank Avenir Suisse. In a study on “Security Policy Perspectives” released on Friday, Avenir Suisse writes that “th...

Swiss companies exported CHF742.8 million ($801 million) worth of war materiel to 67 countries in 2021, down 18% on the previous year, the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) said on Friday. These arms exports accounted for 0.21% of total ...

The Swiss government has lifted the obligation for pets coming with Ukrainian refugees to quarantine on arrival, saying the risk of disease being introduced is low. “The risk of rabies being introduced by dogs and cats accompanying their owners is...

After a pandemic-related slump in 2020, Chinese companies last year spent more money on acquisitions or investments in Swiss companies. They invested a total of $96 million (CHF89 million) on nine deals. In 2020 they spent only $7 million on eight a...

Four members of a family have died after jumping from the seventh floor of a building in an apparent attempt to escape from police. A 15-year-old boy is seriously injured after also leaping from the block of flats in Montreux, western Switzerland. L...

The Swiss authorities have so far frozen some CHF5.75 billion ($6.2 billion) of sanctioned Russian oligarch assets, with the total expected to rise as the European Union announces further measures. The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco), ...

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) kept its ultra-expansive monetary policy on hold on Thursday, bucking the trend of other central banks which have started hiking interest rates to tackle rising inflation. The SNB kept its policy rate locked at -0.75%, ...

The quagga mussel, originally from the Black Sea region, is spreading rapidly in Swiss lakes. Experts fear that the invasive species could upset lake ecosystems. The quagga mussel (Dreissena bugensis) was first discovered in 2014 in the River Rhine ...

Switzerland and the Netherlands plan to boost cooperation on energy supply and renewables, the Swiss government said on Wednesday. Speaking during a visit to the Netherlands, Swiss Environment, Transport and Energy Minister Simonetta Sommaruga descr...

The CEOs of leading companies listed on the Swiss stock exchange saw their earnings rise by an average 5% to CHF6.8 million ($7.3 million) last year, says Swiss financial news agency AWP. Severin Schwan, CEO of Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche, re...

One in four doctors practising in Switzerland is aged 60 or over, and almost four out of ten come from abroad, says the Swiss Medical Association (FMH). "Measures to counter the shortage of doctors are becoming urgent," the FMH warned in its latest ...

Economists at the KOF Swiss Economic Institute have confirmed their previous growth forecast for Switzerland of just under 3% for 2022, although this is only in the most favourable scenario. If the crisis in Ukraine spreads and there is a complete h...

Switzerland has given Moldova an extra CHF2 million ($2 million) to help the eastern European country cope with a wave of refugees from neighbouring Ukraine. Swiss President Ignazio Cassis said Switzerland would “react pragmatically and unbureaucr...

Swiss federal prosecutors have formed a new unit to identify war crimes being committed in Ukraine. The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) says the taskforce will collect evidence from refugees arriving in Switzerland to pass on to the Internation...

Switzerland plans to open negotiations with Qatar over the potential delivery of liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies. The Alpine state is scouting for new energy suppliers, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Finance Minister Ueli Maurer bro...

The Swiss industrial sector, particularly chemical, engineering and food production companies, is already feeling the effects of rising raw material costs and logistical logjams caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Every second Swiss firm is f...

The head of the Swiss government’s Covid taskforce has appealed to the public to plan well for booster vaccinations in autumn. She also believes people will choose to wear masks more often in winter from now on. Since the most recent lifting of re...

Swiss authorities have identified a luxury mountain home believed to be owned by a Russian oligarch as bankers and officials work overtime to track assets of people linked to Moscow in retribution for the invasion of Ukraine. The Bern cantonal prope...

The Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has called on Switzerland to seize sanctioned Russian assets that are frozen in Swiss bank vaults. Morawiecki made this demand during a visit from Swiss President Ignazio Cassis on Monday. “The assets o...

A majority of the Swiss population is not in favour of increasing spending on defence, despite the ongoing war in Ukraine, a new survey reveals. However, they support the government’s existing plan to buy replacement fighter jets. The online poll ...

Credit Suisse announced on Monday that Vice-Chair Severin Schwan would not stand for re-election. This follows a reported rebellion by large shareholder groups at the Swiss bank. “Severin Schwan, who joined the Board in 2014 and has acted as Vice-...

Switzerland may end up taking in far more Ukrainian refugees than government authorities initially estimated, according to a report by the NZZ am Sonntag. The education system will need to adapt. The Alpine nation is expected to experience the large...

A senior health official believes the number of new coronavirus cases in Switzerland may be massively underreported. Rudolf Hauri, president of the cantonal health authorities, estimates the number of people newly infected with the virus at 150,000 ...

Switzerland’s weekend press focused on the whereabouts of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s alleged mistress who has been rumoured to be hiding in the Alpine nation. Newly sanctioned Russian oligarchs said to have residency in Switzerland were a...

Thousands of people joined a "Solidarity with Ukraine, Stop the War Now!" rally held on Saturday in the Swiss capital, Bern. President Ignazio Cassis was also present at the demonstration. He introduced his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky wh...

Swiss food giant Nestlé could confront a consumer boycott after Ukrainian government officials accused the company of being complicit in Russia’s "war crimes" in Ukraine. Boycott calls and parody memes shaming the company have spread like wildfire...