The Zurich District Court acquitted a former financial markets supervisor at the Vatican of charges of corruption and bribery on Wednesday. Prosecutors had demanded a five-year prison sentence for the 52-year-old Swiss man. The court, however, ruled ...

A research team from the federal technology institute ETH Zurich studied debris flows in canton Valais with unprecedented precision to better understand the factors that determine how destructive they are. The international team led by ETH Zurich stu...

The President of the Swiss Conference of Bishops, Charles Morerod, wants to introduce a national digital register of clergy in the interest of transparency. Such a system would allow “every parish to check via smartphone whether there are any alleg...

The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) is looking for three members of “NoName”, a group that has attacked various federal websites, including during a video address by Volodymyr Zelensky to the Swiss parliament in 2023. Following several DDoS ...

Top parliamentarians from Russia and Ukraine are due to attend an international conference in Geneva at the end of July. Sanctioned members of the Russian delegation would need a special arrangement to allow them to enter the country. The Ukrainian p...