Jordan refused to fully cooperate with a Swiss delegation sent to inspect weapons exported from the Alpine state last year. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This is revealed in a report by the State Secretariat for Economic...

Israeli armed forces have intercepted a new Flotilla for Gaza off the coast of Cyprus. Four Swiss were among those arrested, according to videos posted on Instagram. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The expedition's trackin...

The steel duties recently approved by Brussels do not violate the joint declaration on the “stabilisation and development of Swiss-EU relations” package, the European Commission argued on Monday, rejecting criticism voiced by Swiss Economics Mini...

The Ticino government received Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis on Monday. One of the topics of discussion was the health tax for cross-border commuters launched by Italy. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Relations bet...

The new Swatch and Audemars Piguet pocket watch "Royal Pop" is already being sold on at massively inflated prices shortly after going on sale. The demand is causing chaos in front of shops worldwide. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in y...

A study by the University of St Gallen (HSG) is calling for the abolition of the OECD minimum tax. It says the rules are outdated, legally risky and detrimental to Switzerland as a business location. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in y...

The Swiss crowdfunding market grew again in 2025 after three years of decline. The volume of financing brokered via online platforms rose by 14% to CHF629 million ($800 million), Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU) reported on Mond...

Despite the oil price shock and customs turbulence, the Swiss economy performed well at the beginning of 2026. However, it is uncertain whether this trend will continue. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Real, seasonally adj...

Switzerland has commended the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) for steering the response to the hantavirus. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox On Monday in Geneva, Interior Minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider calle...

The crisis in the Middle East could cost 14 million full-time equivalent jobs this year if the price of a barrel of oil exceeds the average for the start of the year by 50%. The figure would rise to 38 million by 2027, according to the International ...

Thanks in particular to satellite observations, a doctoral student at the University of Neuchâtel (UniNE) has observed an unexpected recharge of water in an underground cavity in a river basin in Syria. +Get the most important news from Switzerland ...

A major step has been taken in Geneva to combat type 1 diabetes. An innovative hydrogel used on mice paves the way for a bioartificial pancreas that will do without insulin injections in the future, the University of Geneva (UNIGE) announced on Monda...

German customs officers stopped a 24-year-old man in Blumberg, on the border with the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen, who was hiding 50 kilos of marijuana in his car. The Polish citizen said he had bought the drugs in Switzerland for personal use. +Get...

The public prosecutor's office in Geneva has planned a large-scale operation during the G7 summit in Evian, France. In order to be able to react to numerous arrests, they are working with the "most dangerous scenario", said cantonal public prosecutor...

For four days, the 35th Swiss Federal Music Festival transformed Biel/Bienne into the Swiss capital of wind instrument music. On Sunday, the organising committee said it was impressed by the massive turnout. +Get the most important news from Switzerl...

On Sunday, the World Health Organization (WHO) triggered its second-highest international alert level in response to the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It is caused by a variant that is highly lethal and has no vaccine. Acc...

On May 19 at 05:52 Swiss time, the 'Smile' satellite will be launched into space to study solar storms. For the researchers involved, the launch is a special moment - and nerve-wracking at the same time. "I would love hide in the basement during the ...

Guy Parmelin has expressed his discontent over steel tariffs recently approved by the European Union. Parmelin, who is also economics minister, called the tariffs "unacceptable" in an interview with Swiss public radio SRF on Saturday. Parmelin said h...

From Friday onwards, hundreds of people massed outside Swatch shops in Switzerland in the hope of being able to buy one of the new 'Royal Pop' watches on Saturday morning. Scuffles broke out in some places. More than a thousand people gathered in Gen...

A motorhome got stuck in a tight bend in Welschenrohr, northern Switzerland, on Friday evening. The driver had disregarded a ban on vehicles over 3.5 tonnes, Solothurn cantonal police reported on Saturday. +Get the most important news from Switzerlan...

The Swiss Army is conducting training in shooting from helicopters in France. Due to limited facilities in Switzerland and to strengthen international cooperation, such exercises take place abroad. This is intended to improve defence capabilities. +G...

The Federal Reserve (Fed) has lifted the enforcement measures imposed in 2023 against Swiss bank Credit Suisse, which was acquired by UBS. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The measures had been taken for serious organisatio...

A 93-year-old Chinese woman must leave Switzerland even though she is receiving intensive care from her daughter here, Bern Administrative Court has decided. A legally relevant dependency on the daughter was not sufficiently proven. +Get the most imp...

In the presence of several dozen high church dignitaries, Pope Leo XIV laid the Swiss Cardinal Emil Paul Tscherrig to rest in St Peter's Basilica on Friday afternoon. He honoured the deceased as a fervent and responsible servant of the Lord. +Get the...

Amorous relationships between members of the court violate the current "customs of judges at the Federal Court". This was the decision of all federal judges on Wednesday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The extraordinary m...

The risk of African swine fever spreading to Switzerland is high, according to the Swiss government. After years of declining numbers of cases in domestic pigs in Europe, an outbreak occurred again for the first time in Italy in April. +Get the most ...

Switzerland and 35 other countries, including the EU, have announced their intention to accede to a new, expanded partial agreement on the establishment of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. +Get the most important news...

Supporters and opponents of the "No to ten million" immigration initiative are digging deep into their wallets: CHF15.52 million ($19.75 million) has been budgeted so far. This is the highest sum since the introduction of mandatory budget reporting. ...

Fuel has become a little cheaper again in Switzerland, according to figures from the Touring Club Switzerland (TCS). Compared to the end of April, consumers have to dig a little less deep into their pockets for diesel in particular. However, refuelli...

A driverless PostBus crashed into the front of a bank in Nunningen, northern Switzerland, on Thursday evening. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Nobody was injured, the cantonal police reported on Friday. The articulated bus...