Switzerland's ambassador to Iran has been summoned in Tehran following the arrest in the US of a journalist working for Iranian state-run Press TV news channel. Switzerland has been representing US interests in Iran since 1980. American citizen and ...

A new record of close to 1,500 private jet flights are expected this week at airports around Davos for the World Economic Forum (WEF) summit. The figure was released on Monday by charter flight company Air Charter Service (ACS) that has been monitor...

Social benefit payouts in Switzerland reached a record level in 2016, but actually the wealthy nation spends less of its GDP on welfare than other countries do. Switzerland is the frontrunner if the payouts are measured in Purchasing Power Standard ...

The Swiss Federal Court has dismissed a racial discrimination complaint filed by a man of the Sikh faith against a Swiss paper that reported on his practice of exploiting workers. In 2016, the German language tabloid Blick carried a series of seven...

Swiss President Ueli Maurer has opened the World Economic Forum (WEF) by praising “Swiss” values such as freedom, responsibility and direct democracy. “We reject diktats. The most commonly used word in our constitution is ‘freedom’ and we ...