Swiss President Ignazio Cassis says he is “concerned” by the latest Russian bombardment of Ukraine and news that a missile exploded in Poland, killing two people. Russia extended its barrage against towns and energy facilities in Ukraine on Mond...

Two film festivals in Zurich are shining the spotlight on women’s documentary filmmaking and Arab culture: the Women in Film Festival and the Arab Film Festival Zurich. The third edition of the Women in Film Festival (WIFF), which runs from Novemb...

Both Roche and Novartis have slipped in a ranking of the top 20 pharma companies’ efforts to expand access to medicines in poor countries. Novartis dropped from second place (2020 result) to fourth in the 2022 Access to Medicine Index published on...

Some 25,000 Swiss have called on the government to impose sanctions against the Iranian government. The organisation Free Iran Switzerland submitted two petitions to the federal chancellery in Bern on Tuesday as a sign of solidarity with the Iranian ...

Some 1,700 people die each year in a fall in Switzerland and over 15,000 are seriously injured – more than in road traffic and sports combined. This is the result of the first safety barometer on home and leisure accidents, published on Tuesday by...

Greenpeace is once again calling on the big corporations to get rid of plastic. The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo and Nestlé have been the biggest plastic polluters in the world for five years in a row, it said. As in previous years Swiss food multina...

The Council of Europe has expressed concern that Switzerland’s legal system does not adequately protect women from violence and rape. The Council of Europe’s Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence (GREVIO...

Interior Minister Alain Berset and the Turkish Minister of Culture and Tourism, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, have signed a bilateral agreement on the international transfer of cultural property. The agreement is intended to preserve both countries' cultural he...

A Swiss coin from 1741 has been auctioned in Geneva for CHF854,000 ($908,000). There are only three known examples of the coin in the world. It is the most important Swiss coin ever minted, said the Numismatica Genevensis society, which specialises ...

Several Swiss nationals and companies have been sanctioned by the United States for allegedly being part of a “transnational network procuring technology that supports the Russian military-industrial complex”. The sanctions, announced by Washing...

The Giacometti Museum & School will be created in Paris in 2026, bringing together the largest collection in the world of works by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966). Located in the former Invalides train station and the basement of the esp...

Last year 11,315 penalties and punitive measures were enforced in Switzerland. Of these, 86% concerned men and 43% involved Swiss nationals. In 2020, the figure had declined by more than a fifth to 10,945, according to statistics on the execution of...

Switzerland has fallen seven places to 22nd in the annual Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI), which noted that Swiss voters last year rejected the CO2 law for regulating emissions. “Switzerland is no longer among the CCPI high performers and ...

Switzerland have won the biggest prize in women’s team tennis for the first time after Belinda Bencic completed a near-perfect tournament by beating Australia’s Alja Tomljanovic in straight sets in the final of the Billie Jean King Cup. The win ...

The number of deadly attacks on livestock by wolves has risen sharply in Switzerland in recent years and is expected to surpass 1,000 this year, says a Swiss wildlife group. The number of attacks on livestock in Switzerland, home to an estimated 200...

The Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche says its Alzheimer's drug candidate could not clearly be shown to slow dementia progression in two drug trials. Roche said in a statement on Monday that the studies known as Graduate 1 and 2 did not reach the mai...

A more equitable naturalisation process and better information on organ donations were two key demands of the Youth Session of the Swiss parliament, which ended on Sunday. Around 200 young people, aged 17 on average, took part in the four-day Youth ...

The Swiss health authorities and the manufacturer AstraZeneca are at loggerheads over a nasal spray to vaccinate children and adolescents against influenza. The British-Swedish manufacturer told the Swiss Keystone-SDA agency that it had been asked b...

Economic researcher Jan-Egbert Sturm expects the Swiss economy to stagnate in the next few months. The director of the Swiss Economic Institute (KOF) at Federal Institute ETH Zurich, said Switzerland had been been quite resilient in the current econ...

Historical research shows that the number of children of migrant workers who had to live in hiding in Switzerland between 1949 and 1975 is much higher than previous estimated. Up to 50,000 children – about four times more than assumed - lived in i...

The Swiss president, Ignazio Cassis, has called for strengthening multilateral policies and described Geneva as the "capital of global governance". Speaking at an international conference in Paris on Saturday, Cassis said alliances of multiple count...

The head of the Swiss delegation at COP27 conference in Egypt has called on emerging countries to act to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. "China today has the world's largest CO2 emissions. Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Korea are among the richest countri...

The president of the National Science Foundation's research council has warned of the negative impact of Switzerland's continued exclusion from the European Union's Horizon research programme. "It will damage both science and the economy if we are n...

Swiss Finance Minister Ueli Maurer has welcomed the establishment of a global pandemic fund to help boost the health systems and close budget gaps. In a video call on Saturday, Maurer pledged a financial contribution from Switzerland to the fund, ac...

Switzerland has signed an agreement with Ghana to offset greenhouse gas emissions of the government administration. Under the deal signed on Saturday, Switzerland will promote climate-friendly, low-methane rice production techniques in its partner c...

The chief Swiss negotiator, Livia Leu, says Switzerland and the European Union have reached an agreement to set sights on another series of bilateral treaties. The approach has a clear advantage over the institutional framework agreement and offer m...

The Swiss president, Ignazio Cassis, says France is willing to relaunch a dialogue on close cooperation. Cassis was speaking in Paris on Friday following talks with the French president, Emanuel Macron, on the sidelines of an international conferenc...

Some 2,000 construction workers from German-speaking cantons gathered in Zurich on Friday to call for improvements to their working conditions. Building sites were stopped as construction workers took part in the demonstration in the city centre, or...

Less than ten days to go before kick-off, World Cup host Qatar and Zurich-based FIFA continue to face intense criticism from human rights groups and observers over the Gulf state’s treatment of migrant workers and its human rights record. On Frida...

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) may raise interest rates again to fight Swiss inflation which remains “too high”, SNB governing board member Andrea Maechler said in an interview published on Friday. Swiss inflation dipped to 3% in October from 3.3...