On Thursday Swiss Solidarity raised over CHF10 million ($12.5 million) in donations for the earthquake victims in Venezuela. Tens of thousands of people from all parts of the country took part in the fundraising day, as Swiss Solidarity officials ann...

The city of Chur in easter Switzerland held a memorial service on Thursday to commemorate the arson attack at 38 Alexanderstrasse on July 2, 1989. Four people from Sri Lanka lost their lives, including two children. It is believed the attack was raci...

Swiss footballers Breel Embolo and Dan Ndoye helped Switzerland advance to the Round of 16 at the World Cup on Thursday night with a 2-0 victory over Algeria. However, a red baseball cap worn by Swiss President Guy Parmelin is attracting almost more ...

Switzerland did not violate the right to privacy of the Ukrainian Yuriy Ivanyushchenko by ordering the freezing of his funds and those of his relatives. This was the ruling handed down on Thursday by the European Court of Human Rights, thereby dismis...

On Thursday, the Federal Office for the Environment raised the forest fire risk in parts of the canton of Valais to warning level 4 out of 5. There is also a high risk of forest fires in the cantons of Aargau, Zurich, Lucerne, Uri, Glarus and St Gall...

Food security and access to clean drinking water: the committee behind a people’s initiative is calling for changes to Swiss agricultural policy. On Thursday, it launched its campaign ahead of a nationwide vote on September 27. The initiative “Fo...

Climate models may overestimate the resilience of forests, if they fail to distinguish controlled leaf senescence from damage caused by heat and drought, say Swiss scientists. Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape ...

A new free trade agreement, described as “ambitious” by its stakeholders, has been signed between the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), of which Switzerland is a member, and Vietnam. The agreement, announced on Thursday in Reykjavik, Icelan...

In Switzerland, foodborne illnesses increased in 2025. With 8,654 laboratory-confirmed cases, campylobacteriosis was the most common infection, followed by salmonellosis, with 2,280 cases. Last year, infections caused by the Shiga toxin-producing bac...

On Thursday, the Vatican confirmed the excommunication of six bishops linked to the Society of Saint Pius X, thereby confirming the ultra-conservative movement’s “schism” with the Catholic Church. The Society consecrated four bishops in the Swi...

On Thursday, the Swiss pharmaceutical and diagnostics giant Roche announced the success of a pivotal clinical trial for its drug divarasib in the treatment of a form of lung cancer as a second-line therapy. Following the completion of the Krascendo 1...

The banking giant UBS, along with banks focused on the Swiss market, would be able to absorb losses resulting from “adverse scenarios”, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) said in a new report published on Thursday. "The Swiss banking sector is, on the...

The Lucerne-based art dealer Angela Rosengart, who was founder and director of the Sammlung Rosengart Museum in Lucerne, died on Tuesday at the age of 94. The Rosengart Foundation confirmed her death on Wednesday evening in response to an enquiry fro...

Canada will take part in the 2027 Eurovision Song Contest, the organisers announced on Wednesday. The world’s biggest live televised music event is thus expanding to the Americas. "The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and its newest member, CBC/Ra...

A natural lake has formed over the past few weeks on the Glacier 3000 in Les Diablerets in canton Vaud in western Switzerland. This temporary lake, with its turquoise-blue hues, is fed by meltwater from the glacier. The lake forms between May and Jul...

Lonza is expanding its collaboration with an American biopharmaceutical company, the identity of which has not been disclosed. The Basel-based pharmaceutical contract manufacturer is set to commence production for two new biologics programmes, with a...

The Swiss agrochemical company Syngenta Group is getting a new chief executive. The Board of Directors unanimously appointed Hengde Qin as the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) starting August 1, the Basel-based company announced on Wednesday. The cu...

The Federal Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a Russian oligarch to be removed from the sanctions list in connection with the war in Ukraine. In a judgement published on Wednesday, the judges in Lausanne rejected his request to lift the freeze...

The trial of a teenager who is accused of stabbing an Orthodox Jewish man in the street in Zurich in March 2024 began on Wednesday morning in Dielsdorf, in canton Zurich, before the Juvenile Court. The young defendant declined to answer the judge’s...

The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric, is in Moscow. Over the next two days, she is due to discuss “crucial humanitarian issues” with the Russian authorities related to the conflict in Ukraine. Du...

Six months after the devastating fire in Crans-Montana, Mayor Nicolas Féraud takes stock of the situation. “I felt there was a lack of humanity at a time when so many people needed it,” he said in an interview with the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. He ...

After a first quarter of 2026 that was virtually at a standstill, the Swiss initial public offering (IPO) market rebounded in the second quarter with three new listings. However, according to consulting firm EY, many prospective issuers prefer to wai...

The Pro Juventute Foundation reports that the number of enquiries from children regarding domestic violence has tripled in five years. With the inclusion of non-violent parenting in the Swiss Civil Code (ZGB), corporal punishment and other degrading ...

Thunderstorms caused Zurich Airport to cancel some 70 flights and divert more than 30 aircraft from Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning. Many passengers were unable to begin their journeys and had to spend the night at the airport. By 7:00 on Wednes...

Swiss finance minister Karin Keller-Sutter is adamant that a revised cross-border worker deal must be struck with Italy. Keller-Sutter met Italian finance minister, Giancarlo Giorgetti, in Rome on Tuesday. The meeting took place immediately after the...

Switzerland has experienced its third-warmest June since records began in 1864. The national average temperature was 3.5 degrees Celsius above the 1991–2020 average. The warmest June on record was in 2003, whilst the second-warmest, according to a ...

Switzerland's electronic identity system will not be introduced this year. More time is needed to enhance data protection and user security. Until now, there had been talk of launching the e-ID in the second half of 2026. A statement issued by the Fe...

A coalition of left-leaning political parties and environmental organisations has launched a popular initiative to block the construction of new nuclear power stations in Switzerland. Building new nuclear plants would make Switzerland dependent on fo...

The Swiss authorities have warned of an increasing number of performance enhancing products containing peptides being imported illegally into Switzerland. Often ordered online, these unregulated and unauthorised products pose “considerable health r...

Extreme heatwaves, such as the past few days, remain a rarity in Switzerland despite climate change, according to the Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology (MeteoSwiss). A heatwave of the same or greater intensity occurs less than once every ...