Emails recently released in the United States suggest that the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein recruited young women in Zurich for sex trafficking. Epstein was also reportedly a client of a major Swiss bank, the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper report...

Bern’s traditional annual onion market, known as the Zibelemärit in Swiss German, got off to a busy start in the early hours of Monday morning despite bad weather conditions. Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend the festival in the S...

The Swiss mountain village of Brienz/Brinzauls experienced several small rockfalls over the weekend but no major landslide to threaten the village. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox According to the authorities, the rockfall...

Swiss Defense Minister Martin Pfister is reportedly proposing a two-stage strategy for purchasing F-35 fighter jets in batches to stay within the promised budget. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox According to the SonntagsBl...

Swiss environmental groups are disappointed with the results of the World Climate Summit. In their view, Switzerland now has a particular responsibility. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox NGOs criticised weak compromises - b...

More than half of the Swiss population is in favour of recognising Palestine as a state, according to a survey by the opinion research institute Sotomo. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Some 57% of respondents answered yes ...

The Swiss meteorogical service has played down speculation about a "winter of the century" this season. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox MeteoSwiss are expecting a mild winter, according to an enquiry from Keystone-SDA. A r...

The measures agreed at the World Climate Summit in Brazil are less ambitious than Swiss environment ambassador Felix Wertli had hoped. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "It was a conference of small steps," he told the Keyst...

Ukraine and the United States will meet in Switzerland within days to hold talks a recently proposed peace plan. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The planned meeting was made public on Facebook by Roustem Oumerov, head of t...

Swiss Economics Minister Guy Parmelin hopes to see reduced United States tariffs from the beginning of December. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "In Switzerland, we are ready", Parmelin told Swiss public broadcaster SRF. I...

Swiss environment minister Albert Rösti described negotiations at the 30th UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém as "difficult". +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Disagreement concerns in particular the so-called r...

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Finma) fears that financial centre risk is becoming increasingly tense. Developments in the mortgage market are particularly worrying. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "Pric...

Swiss firms must take steps to combat sexual harassment, according to the Swiss Trade Union Confederation. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Nearly 60% of female employees have already experienced sexist behaviour or sexual ...

A 39-year-old Chinese man has been sentenced to 7.5 years in prison for human trafficking and promoting prostitution. The man will also be deported from Switzerland for 13 years. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox On Friday t...

Martin Wittwer, president of the Swiss Travel Federation, says business with the United States will halve by 2026, due to the geopolitical situation, tariffs and the policies of US President Donald Trump. +Get the most important news from Switzerland...

The Swiss Capital Region has awarded its "Prize for Bilingualism" to Bernese film director Djibril Vuille. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Vuille's feature film debut Schoggi deals with important contemporary issues and sh...

The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is to give up 2,900 full-time equivalents as a result of a 17% reduction in its budget for 2026. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Assembly approved this p...

A loaf of bread at CHF0.99 ($1.23), a bottle of Chasselas at CHF2.19, sustainable meat at rock-bottom prices: the Swiss Farmers’ Union is speaking out against “reckless pressure” on prices and is calling the major retailers to account. +Get the...

Health insurance premiums affect the development of the disposable income of the Swiss. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This would have increased by 1.0% in 2025, but due to higher health insurance bills the increase was l...

Swiss banking giant UBS has completed its share buyback programme launched on July 1. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In the course of the operation, 52,582,575 UBS registered shares, representing 1.6% of the share capital...

In Switzerland the inclusion of people with disabilities in employment is still more of an abstract principle than a concrete reality. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This is revealed by a study that highlights how, despit...

Members of the Swiss armed forces should once again be able to store ammunition for their personal weapons at home, says the responsible Senate committee. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Security Policy Committee of th...

The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in Basel generated a turnover of CHF248 million ($308 million) in Switzerland, according to the cantonal authorities. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The event generated added value of CHF...

Every Swiss resident travelled an average of 2,519 kilometres by train last year, surpassing the 2019 record of 2,505 kilometres. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox On average, everyone in Switzerland used the train 71 times ...

The Roman Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, has been the targeted by thieves stole several dozen gold coins of archaeological value. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The two unknown persons, who broke into the building short...

UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti dismisses speculation that the bank is looking to leave Switzerland, saying that management is seeking a compromise on the controversial new capital requirement rules. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox...

The Zurich cantonal government has proposed a ban on so-called conversion therapies, which are supposed to change the sexual orientation of lesbian, gay or bisexual people. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Anyone who carrie...

For the first time this autumn, there were a few snowflakes below 500 metres in the lowlands to the north of the Swiss Alps on Thursday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Snow started to fall at 500 to 700 metres in places. ...

The Swiss government is rejecting calls to give apprentices an extra week's paid holiday per year. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Federal Council opposes five motions calling for paid vacation to be increased from fou...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has lashed out at countries, including Switzerland, without naming them, for their policies towards Ukrainian refugees. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Wednesday's ...