The Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) has been forced to publish unredacted contracts for procuring Covid vaccines during the pandemic. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The move follows a February court ruling th...

The Swiss Federal Supreme Court has ruled that digital devices seized from a photographic journalist can be used to investigate the suspicious death of a woman in a ‘Sarco’ suicide capsule. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your in...

Swiss federal police (Fedpol) issued 614 bans on entry to the country in 2025, four times as many as in the previous year. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The vast majority of these (512) were issued on terrorism-related g...

Swiss airline Edelweiss has cancelled some routes to the United States and Oman due to reduced passenger demand and rising fuel prices, aggravated by the geopolitical situation. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In a stateme...

A Swiss popular initiative demanding a more sustainable financial centre has been submitted with over 145,000 signatures. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The banks and other financial actors must take more responsibility f...

For the summer, Swiss Federal Railways will offer further direct services to European destinations such as Rimini, Aix-en-Provence and Marseille. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Passengers will have to be patient, however,...

The list of people charged in connection with the Crans-Montana fire tragedy in Switzerland has risen to 13, with four more suspects to appear before prosecutors in May and June. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Keyston...

On the third anniversary of war in Sudan, Switzerland has announced an extra CHF23 million in humanitarian aid to help the region's population. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox As the bloody civil war in Sudan enters its fo...

Zurich airport has officially started construction work on a new terminal for private and business flights. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The project, which utilises the western area of the airport, includes hangar, apro...

Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko has launched a court bid to remove him from a Swiss list of sanctioned Russian oligarchs. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Melnichenko made his demand at a public hearing at the Federa...

A new centre, the Geneva Human Rights Hub (GHRH), has launched in Switzerland to give impetus to projects that have become bogged down. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Half-funded by the Swiss foreign ministry, this unit, ...

The Congolese authorities and rebel factions have signed an interim agreement in Switzerland for the implementation of truce monitoring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The reb...

Anthropic has appointed Vasant Narasimhan, current CEO of Swiss pharma giant Novartis, as a member of its independent board of directors. The structure now has seven members, the US.-based AI company said. +Get the most important news from Switzerlan...

Starting July 1, the German digital psychotherapy app Deprexis can be prescribed by a doctor and covered by basic health insurance. While the arrival of this new tool has been met with a generally positive response, questions remain about its actual ...

The Swiss government has decided to tighten the federal law on home ownership by foreigners - commonly known as the Lex Koller law - in order to tackle the housing shortage. According to the changes, foreign homeowners will have to obtain authorisati...

According to Group CEO Sergio Ermotti, the Swiss bank UBS is making good progress integrating Credit Suisse, which was acquired three years ago. At the same time, management is working on preparing the bank for the coming decade. +Get the most import...

Sandoz has signed an agreement with the Rwandan government for the direct supply of essential medicines, including antibiotics and cancer drugs. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In addition to Rwanda, the supply is intended...

The municipality of Crans-Montana has reacted to the 11-hour hearing of its mayor Nicolas Féraud in connection with the tragic fire on New Year's Day. In a statement published on its website, the municipality aligned its position with the mayor. +Ge...

More pressure does not make a snowpack more stable, but in fact more susceptible to avalanches. This is according to experiments by researchers at the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF). +Get the most important news from Switzerland ...

The Swiss Medical Association (FMH) points to an impending shortage of specialists. A quarter of doctors are over 60 years old and are therefore close to retirement age, as the FMH announced on Wednesday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland...

Zurich Airport has continued its upward trajectory despite the war in Iran. Passenger numbers climbed again in March. The shops also made more turnover. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In March, 2.47 million passengers tra...

In a joint statement, Canada, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and seven other countries have called for "an immediate end to the fighting in Lebanon". +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The countries are "deeply concerned abo...

The Swiss defence ministry says progress is being made on procurement and system upgrade projects that had become bogged down. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Of the 23 newly-prioritised projects, only most are on track, R...

For the Swiss watch industry, physical events, like the Geneva watch fair, are of great importance after the coronavirus pandemic, despite growing digitalisation. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Cyrille Vigneron, president...

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) will continue to suspend its flights to and from Dubai until July 11 due to the uncertain situation in the Middle East. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This was announced by the airlin...

The first ski mountaineering races of the Patrouille des Glaciers in Switzerland have been postponed by 24 hours with organisers citing an increased avalanche risk on the course. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The affecte...

A convoy from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has arrived in Tehran with the first delivery of humanitarian supplies. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The first five 171-tonne truckloads of essential sup...

A Swiss popular initiative has been launched that calls for limits to be imposed on federal staffing costs. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Federal staffing expenditure should not rise by more than the Swiss median wage, t...

The Swiss steel industry is facing tougher European tariffs after the European Union tightened import rules to protect the industry. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox EU member states and parliament have agrred that in futur...

France has rejected Switzerland’s request to seize the assets of the owners of a Swiss bar who are under investigation following a devastating fire that killed 41 people. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A French court ha...