A Swiss pastor who fraudulently begged parishioners for money to fuel his gambling habit has been handed a three-year suspended jail sentence and must serve six months behind bars. The former clergyman conned CHF3.3 million ($3.4 million) out of his...

Swiss bank Credit Suisse has been fined CHF2 million ($2 million) for allowing cocaine dealers to launder money through its vaults. The verdict marks the first time a home-grown major Swiss bank has been convicted of such offences in the criminal cou...

Switzerland’s exclusion from the Horizon Europe research scheme is having a sizeable impact on the overall level of funding of Swiss science projects, new statistics show. According to the Federal Statistical Office (FSO), the federal authorities ...

Scientists in Switzerland and Austria have created a new PET-like recyclable plastic that can be easily made from the non-edible parts of plants. The promising tough, heat-resistant plastic could be used for food packaging. Researchers from the Fede...

Additional cancellations of SWISS flights are “unavoidable” because of staff shortages, a company spokesperson told the Keystone-SDA news agency on Sunday. Scheduled flights between August and October would be affected by the latest announcement...

In the absence of a free trade deal, the United States and Switzerland are focusing on specific sectoral agreements, Scott Miller told the SonntagsBlick newspaper. Hopes for a free trade deal between the two countries have waxed and waned over the y...

Around 20 traders have reportedly increased their shipments of Russian oil since the war in Ukraine broke out. A third of these players have strong connections to Geneva, according to the newspaper Le Matin Dimanche. While the major Swiss-based comm...

Applied directly to the area where a tumour is located, a hydrogel developed by researchers at the University of Bern activates the body’s own defence system against melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer. The chances of survival among melano...

With debates at home and abroad raging about the country’s neutrality, President Ignazio Cassis has defended the concept. To him, being neutral means cooperating with other states while following Swiss principles. Adopting European Union sanctions...

A Moscow court has fined the messenger service Threema €14,200 (CHF14,363) for refusing to share user data with Russian authorities under a domestic anti-terror law. "The Russian authority Roskomnadzor apparently launched an investigation in March...

Journalists based in Mexico, Germany and the United States won prizes at this year’s edition of the True Story Award, given in the Swiss capital on Friday night. They were selected from a pool of more than 1,100 stories submitted for awards worth a...

Former FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke has been handed an 11-month suspended prison sentence after being found guilty of accepting bribes and forging documents in connection with World Cup football broadcasting deals. Valcke had been cleared ...

An honorary doctorate awarded to former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini will not be withdrawn by the University of Lausanne (UNIL) despite demands to wipe it from the records. In 1937, Mussolini was awarded the doctorate “for having conceived an...

The head of one of Switzerland’s largest electricity suppliers has warned of an impending power crunch this winter, raising the spectre of rationing. Russia has reduced gas supplies to Europe in retaliation for embargoes imposed for its invasion o...

The heads of Switzerland’s Federal Institutes of Technology have signed an open letter to Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, asking for help in unblocking access to Horizon Europe research projects. The open letter was se...

In Switzerland 9.1% of convicts have been placed in a private facility, such as a psychiatric clinic, residential home or special care facility. Not all offenders in Switzerland serve their sentences in prison. At the end of March 2022, of the 6,945...

Switzerland will implement from 2024 the minimum tax rate for large multinational firms under a global tax deal. The federal government will get a quarter and regional and local authorities three-quarters of revenue, it said on Thursday, outlining ho...

The Swiss cities of Zurich and Geneva are the world’s third and sixth best cities to live in, respectively, according to an annual report from The Economist. Zurich moved up to third place – shared with Calgary, Canada – from seventh in the la...

German authorities say they have prevented a bomb attack in Switzerland after arresting two Swiss men suspected of recently trying to buy explosives in Stuttgart in southern Germany. On June 20, German special forces arrested two Swiss men, aged 24 ...

Four months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Swiss residents continue to fear an escalation in the ongoing fighting, according to a new survey. Most of the 2,422 people who participated in a Link survey published on Thursday expressed ongoing c...

The Swiss Federal Railways has decided to issue security personnel on trains with bodycams due to increasing reports of passenger violence. The Swiss public broadcaster, SRF, on Thursday reported that body cams would be issued to rail police nationw...

The triangular chocolate bar will also be manufactured in Slovakia from the end of 2023. Toblerone’s parent company, confectionery giant Mondelez International, confirmed the Slovakian outsourcing plan on Wednesday, according to Swiss public radio...

Refugees with a special legal status will be able to exchange a limited amount of Ukranian banknotes for Swiss francs. The Swiss government on Wednesday announced that adults with a protection S status may exchange one amount of up to 10,000 hryvnia...

The government has presented plans for an upgrade of the country’s railway network, including an additional Alpine tunnel in western Switzerland. An additional CHF720 million ($745 million) - and a total of CH25 billion - have been set aside to up...

The government has earmarked CHF20 million ($20.7 million) to promote sustainable tourism and innovative projects in Switzerland. The funds, which still need approval by parliament, are also meant to boost digitalisation in the sector and city touri...

The KOF Swiss Economic Institute has revised downwards its growth forecast for this year and 2023. However, the unit of the ETH Zurich remains optimistic despite the war in Ukraine and rising inflation, according to a statement published on Wednesda...

A court in the Swiss town of Biel/Bienne has convicted Muslim preacher Abu Ramadan of welfare fraud and inciting racial hatred. Ramadan, a Libyan national, was given a 14-month suspended jail sentence and faces expulsion from Switzerland for six yea...

A British subsidiary of Swiss commodities giant Glencore on Tuesday pleaded guilty to seven counts of bribery in connection with oil operations in several African countries. At a court in London, Glencore Energy formally admitted to paying more than...

Swiss biotechnologist Madiha Derouazi has been awarded a prestigious European Inventor prize together with the French immunologist Elodie Benoue. The two scientists won the European Inventor Award jointly in the SMEs category from the European Paten...

Patients in Switzerland should be more involved in health care decisions, says the Federal Quality Commission in its first annual report published on Tuesday. There are also other “gaps” in the Swiss health system, including an overly sectoral a...