Reports of alleged violations of international humanitarian law in Ukraine must be urgently investigated, say the Swiss authorities. Ukraine has accused Russia of committing war crimes in the town of Bucha, near Kyiv. Moscow denies the accusations. ...

People in Switzerland will now be able to anonymously report child abuse content found on the Internet, the initiators said on Sunday. The online reporting service clickandstop.ch will be operational from Monday, according to a press release from th...

Switzerland can cope with a large number of Ukrainian refugees, and their skills can benefit the economy, says migration expert Thomas Kessler. “The Ukrainian women will provide new impetus in this country,” he told the SonntagsBlick newspaper. ...

Swiss cantons have so far reported ten properties belonging to Russian oligarchs which are now ”frozen” in line with sanctions measures, a government spokesman said on Sunday. Fabian Maienfisch, spokesman for the State Secretariat for Economic A...

Some 10,000 people demonstrated on Saturday in the Swiss federal capital Bern for peace in Ukraine, according to the organisers. Demonstrators called for a ceasefire, withdrawal of Russian troops and tough sanctions against the regime of Russian Pre...

The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has chosen Lausanne as the Swiss city with the best climate strategy, it said on Saturday. Choosing the western city from among six others in Switzerland, the WWF cited Lausanne’s "remarkable" tree-planting initiative...

Given the scale of the challenge, Switzerland is coping well with the influx of Ukrainian refugees, but we do not know how many more will come, says Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter. At an early stage, Switzerland introduced a special “S” st...

Thousands of Ukrainian refugees are finding that Swiss banks are refusing to convert the cash they brought with them into francs. More than 20,000 people fleeing the Ukraine war have registered in Switzerland so far. But they rely on the goodwill of...

A screening of the film Olga organised by the Swiss embassy in Beijing was cancelled at short notice on Thursday by Chinese authorities, despite the protests of Swiss diplomats. The reasons given for the last-minute cancellation were first of all th...

The Swiss tradition of taking cattle up to alpine pasture has been put forward for inclusion on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list. From the beginning of May to mid-June, farmers herd more than a quarter of a million cows from their valley...

Switzerland is to donate an additional CHF30 million ($32.47 million) in aid to Afghanistan this year, as part of international efforts to shore up the struggling country. The Swiss donation was announced at an international conference in Geneva on ...

Switzerland’s Federal Administrative Court has decided in favour of four big gold refineries that were under pressure to disclose their gold suppliers. The Bern-based Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) said Thursday that it took note of the cour...

Switzerland on Thursday condemned "in the strongest terms" the attack on a humanitarian warehouse in the Ukrainian coastal city of Mariupol. The attack against the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is "a serious violation of internatio...

Russia’s state-owned nuclear firm Rosatom helps fuel two nuclear power plants in Switzerland. That commercial link is now under scrutiny as the Western world puts financial pressure on Russia to stop its aggression against Ukraine. Swiss electrici...

Switzerland has signed a declaration along with six other European states in favour of pooling gas storage facilities. Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands signed the declaration on Wednesday, pledging to wo...

Claims that international Islamist movements exert significant influence over mosques and Muslim communities in Switzerland are exaggerated, a study has found. While international networks and money from places like Saudi Arabia or Qatar help in the...

The government has announced some CHF22 million for projects to protect youth migrants in North and West Africa, and to deter them from making dangerous journeys across the Mediterranean to Europe. The CHF21.8 million ($23.5 million) is to be spent ...

More people found themselves in a precarious situation in the Swiss mountains last year. There were a record number of accidents and rescues, particularly involving snow sports. Despite or perhaps because of the pandemic, many people went in search ...

The sales of Swiss chocolate rose again last year after dipping in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. However, they remain below pre-crisis levels. The turnover of Switzerland’s 16 chocolate manufacturers hit CHF1.7 billion ($1.8 billion) last yea...

Four members of a French family who died after jumping from a block of flats in Montreux in western Switzerland last week, most probably died by suicide, local police reported on Tuesday. A fifth member – a 15-year-old boy – remains in a coma. T...

The Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has called on Ukraine and Russia to reach a clear agreement for the evacuation of civilians from the besieged southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol and other war-battered locations. ICRC...

Switzerland has made progress on gender equality, specifically on LGBTQI+ rights, says Amnesty International. However, the rights group criticised cases of excessive use of force at Swiss asylum centres and prison sentences for protesters. Amnesty I...

Women earn on average 11% less than men for doing the same job in Switzerland, according to the latest official survey of wages. On Monday, the Federal Statistical Office reported that the gender wage gap is narrowing, but only slowly. In 2016, ther...

The American company Vail Resorts Inc has agreed to take a majority stake in Andermatt-Sedrun Sport AG, which controls and operates the mountain resort in southeast Switzerland. The US firm announced on Monday that it had acquired a 55% ownership st...

The Swiss government on Friday adopted additional sanctions against Russia for its ongoing war in Ukraine but did not ban the Russian state TV channels Sputnik and Russia Today like the European Union. Switzerland joins the sanctions measures adopte...

Switzerland saw a significant increase in the number of reported cyber-crime incidents last year. In the same period, the rate of murders and burglaries fell, while e-bikes became one of the favourite targets of thieves. The Federal Statistical Offi...

A new poll shows that a majority of the Swiss population would be in favour of tougher sanctions against Russia for invading Ukraine, even if it results in higher energy costs in Switzerland. A new poll published today shows that a majority (56%) of...

Diaspora TV Switzerland launched a new service in Ukrainian on Sunday to help meet the information needs of refugees arriving from the war-torn country. The new service, which is supported by the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), will focus on ...

An advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says the Swiss should be more proactive in looking for Russian funds. But according to a legal expert, current regulations do not allow authorities or banks to do more active searches beyond what�...

The southern canton of Ticino has been hardest hit by forest fires as a drought that began in early December has prompted several regions to raise their wildfire risk levels to “severe”. Authorities in Centovalli in Ticino were able to bring a l...