The Swiss tourism sector is tipped to experience a positive winter season despite the Ukraine war, escalating energy prices, ongoing lockdowns in China and the strong franc. The KOF Swiss Economic Institute predicts that overnight stays will beat pr...

Switzerland is expecting nearly 50% more asylum applications this year compared to 2021, prompting the erection of new accommodation centres and the support of the army. The State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) on Thursday said it expected to recei...

Some 15th Century graffiti, found in King David’s Tomb in Jerusalem, has been attributed to a Swiss knight famed for defending the town of Murten during the Burgundian wars. The graffiti has been presented as evidence that Adrian von Bubenberg mad...

Switzerland has launched an Energy Saving Alliance of companies, government, cantons, civil society and municipalities in an effort to preserve gas and electricity supplies over the winter. The Alpine state is among many European countries facing po...

An online organ transplant register in Switzerland will cease operating after a probe into serious security flaws. Swiss public television SRF found that it was possible to register people on the National Organ Donor Register (NOSR) without their kn...

Swiss pharma giant Novartis has finalised a deal with the Geneva-based Medicines Patent Pool to allow generic production of its patented drug nilotinib to treat chronic myeloid leukemia. The deal, which was formally signed on the sidelines of the Wo...

About 20 public names from French- and Italian-speaking Switzerland have cut a lock of their hair as part of a symbolic gesture, expressing support for the struggle of Iranian women against oppression. Since Tuesday a video has been circulating on s...

Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss humanitarian and reconstruction help for the war-torn country. Cassis arrived in Kyiv on Thursday to assess the war situation and preparatory work f...

Swiss federal prosecutors have filed an appeal to overturn the acquittals of former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and former UEFA President Michel Platini on corruption charges, they said on Thursday. Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court had cleared...

Switzerland has taken over from Russia as chair of an international body that sets guidelines for the export of ballistic missiles and military drones. The 35 member states of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) are currently taking part in...

The Swiss government has put forward plans to create reserve power plants aimed at shoring up the country’s energy supplies during the winter. The proposal to create a network of reserve plants was presented on Wednesday for a period of public con...

The Swiss government has committed a further CHF250 million ($251 million) for language courses and apprenticeship places aimed at foreigners who are resident in the Alpine state. The credit line will cover the period 2024 to 2027 with half of the f...

Swiss food manufacturing company Nestlé has announced it will buy the Starbucks subsidiary company ‘Seattle’s Best Coffee’ amid flagging sales of its other coffee brands. The takeover of the United States coffee retailer for an undisclosed su...

The site selected near the border for storing Swiss nuclear waste has been deemed suitable by an expert group from Germany. The arguments of the Swiss National Co-operative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste (Nagra) in favour of the northern Lä...

The Alpine nation’s environmental impact per capita decreased by a quarter between 2000 and 2018, according to a study. The study was commissioned by the Federal Office for the Environment and released on Tuesday. It took into account Switzerland...

French cement maker Lafarge, which became part of Swiss-listed Holcim in 2015, has pleaded guilty to a US charge that it made payments to groups designated as terrorists by the United States, including Islamic State. The admission in Brooklyn federa...

The Green Party says it won’t make a move for the seat in Switzerland’s seven-person cabinet being made vacant by Finance Minister Ueli Maurer. It said it doesn't want to waste time playing a “rigged game”. When Maurer, from the right-wing S...

Switzerland is considering whether to adopt the strengthened European Union sanctions against Iran following Tehran’s crackdown against demonstrators outraged by the death in police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. The economics ministry said i...

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) is planning to expand its flight schedule next summer to offer 85% of its pre-pandemic capacity. To this end, it is now busy recruiting flight attendants. In the summer timetable, which runs from March 26 to Oct...

Switzerland now has four restaurants with three Michelin stars: Memories, in eastern Switzerland, has joined the exclusive club alongside Restaurant de l’Hôtel de Ville in Crissier, the Cheval Blanc in Basel and Schloss Schauenstein in Fürstenau....

The Zurich-based chocolate manufacturer has acquired a production unit in Casablanca to expand its business in North Africa. On Tuesday, Barry Callebaut announced the signing of an agreement with a distributor and manufacturer of confectionery base...

Almost 50% of all children in Switzerland experience physical or psychological violence at home, according to an annual survey conducted by the University of Fribourg on behalf of Child Protection Switzerland. Smacking on the bottom was the most com...

The price of used cars in Switzerland has risen by 28% since 2020. The reason for this increase is “on the one hand, the longer waiting times for new cars and, on the other hand, the fewer trade-in offers”, online comparison service Comparis sa...

The number of victims of human trafficking in Switzerland increased by 50% between 2019 and 2021. In 2021, the Swiss platform against human trafficking identified 207 new victims of trafficking compared to 142 in 2019. The overwhelming majority (81...

Swiss author Kim de l'Horizon has claimed the prestigious German Book Prize 2022 with the novel Blutbuch (Blood Book). The jury, which announced the winner of the best German language novel on Monday, said it was inspired by the “innovative power�...

Dozens of taxi drivers staged a strike in Geneva to protest a decision by the authorities to allow the ride-hailing company to resume business in the Swiss city. The strike follows months of dispute and failed negotiations over the conditions of Ube...

A 72-year-old woman, accused of hurling fireworks at the Turkish consulate in Zurich, has had her conviction and prison sentence overturned on appeal. The appeals court found that there was insufficient evidence to convict left-wing extremist Andrea...

Pilots from Lufthansa subsidiary Eurowings have started a three-day strike. As a result, most Eurowings flights to and from Zurich are cancelled. At Zurich Airport a total of six rotations – flights to and from Zurich – will not take place on Mo...

Credit Suisse has agreed to pay $495 million (CHF496 million) to settle a case brought against it in the United States, the latest pay-out related to past blunders that have battered the Swiss bank’s reputation. Credit Suisse said it would make th...

There have been many accusations of Russian war crimes since the start of the Ukraine war, but documenting and punishing them will take time, says Philip Grant, director of Swiss NGO TRIAL International. The current situation should allow Switzerlan...