Smartphones have for the first time become the most popular means of payment in Switzerland, ahead of cards and cash, according to a Visa survey. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Some 28% of the Swiss population prefer mob...

An avalanche has derailed a train near to the Swiss village of Goppenstein. Police fear that several people were injured in the accident. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The derailment happened at around 7am on Monday mor...

Iran will hold high-level talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Geneva on Monday concerning its domestic nuclear programme. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi ann...

Several hundred people marched in St Gallen on Saturday to protest against mandatory vaccinations. The demonstration, organised by the Mass-Voll movement, was led in large part by members of the far-right Swiss group Junge Tat. + Get the most importa...

Swiss prisons have long been dealing with chronic overcrowding and the pressure it creates, says the Keystone-SDA news agency. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Following the February riot at Bellechasse prison in Fribourg,...

An Italian prosecutor will meet officials from the Valais public prosecutor’s office in Bern on Thursday. The talks are expected to clarify how the two authorities will work together in the investigation into the New Year’s Eve fire at the Le Con...

At the 62nd Munich Security Conference, Defence Minister Martin Pfister spoke for the first time about Switzerland’s relatively modest defence spending. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Pfister told Swiss public broadcas...

An explosion on a carnival float in Le Châble, in canton Valais in southwestern Switzerland, injured eleven people on Saturday afternoon during the Bagnes Carnival. The Valais cantonal police confirmed the incident in a statement. + Get the most imp...

The Gulf state of Oman will host talks between the United States and Iran in Geneva next week. Switzerland’s foreign ministry has confirmed the information to the Keystone-SDA news agency, following an earlier report by Reuters. + Get the most impo...

Several dozen people gathered on Saturday morning at 10am near the Constellation bar in the Swiss town of Crans‑Montana to honour those who died or were injured in the New Year’s Eve fire. The gathering was organised by relatives of the victims. ...

In the refugee training centre in Ringgenberg in western Switzerland, 32 people with asylum or refugee status are currently training to work in nursing care. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The centre has been operated by...

A proposal to effectively ban the burkini in Geneva’s public pools was blocked on Friday after the cantonal government ruled it unlawful. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In Geneva, the right‑wing majority in the canto...

In the Swiss mountain town of Davos, works by Pablo Picasso will be shown alongside pieces by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner for the first time. The director of the Kirchner Museum says it is one of the institution’s most ambitious exhibitions to date. + Ge...

French prosecutors have launched five investigations, including into Swiss food giant Nestlé, after batches of infant milk were found to contain cereulide, a toxin produced by the bacterium Bacillus cereus. + Get the most important news from Switzer...

Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis says he is “cautiously optimistic” ahead of a new round of talks on the war in Ukraine taking place in Geneva. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Speaking to Swiss public television ...

The Pride Festival in Zurich is to be downsized this year and will now charge admission. This is intended to secure funding after sponsors pulled out. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "After thorough analysis, we have decid...

The bar presidents of cantons Valais, Vaud and Geneva on Friday condemned the attacks on the lawyers of Jacques and Jessica Moretti, owners of the "Le Constellation" in Crans-Montana, where 41 people died in a fire on New Year's Eve. +Get the most im...

Passengers of selected airlines can now check in automatically at EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse. Other airlines are to follow as soon as possible, the airport said on Friday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The offer initiall...

The next round of negotiations between Moscow, Kyiv and Washington to try to find a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday in Geneva, the Kremlin announced on Friday. +Get the most important news from Switzerl...

The fire disaster in Crans-Montana has attracted a great deal of international attention but has so far had little impact on Swiss tourism. According to several tourism organisations, bookings, frequencies and sales have remained stable. +Get the mos...

This year in the disaster-stricken Lötschental, the traditional Tschäggättä procession did not start in the Swiss village of Blatten, but in Wiler. Despite a lingering sense of grief, the people of the valley are doing their utmost to keep the cu...

Flower and erotic shops do good business on Valentine's Day. Both sectors record higher sales around February 14 than on most other days of the year. Swiss florists are even expecting a record Valentine's Day. +Get the most important news from Switze...

In the case of the fire disaster in Crans-Montana, two Valais lawyers have filed a criminal complaint against the mayor of the village, Nicolas Féraud. The two lawyers are representing a seriously injured victim of the fire and his parents. +Get the...

Several major programmes of the Swiss defence ministry, notably Air2030, are in the red and are experiencing delays. They are not progressing satisfactorily, the ministry said on Thursday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "...

The European launcher Ariane 6 has been launched into space for the first time with four boosters. The rocket lifted off from the European space centre in Kourou in French Guiana on Thursday. Ariane 6 is also flying thanks to Switzerland. +Get the mo...

The large-scale vaccination campaign against Covid-19 started in Switzerland five years ago. Several million people were injected with one of the vaccines from December 2020. So far, the government has made payments in two cases following vaccination...

A rocky planet has been discovered in the "wrong" place by the Swiss space telescope CHEOPS. The find forces scientists to rethink current theories on the formation of planetary systems. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Sc...

Three drugs traffickers have been handed 15 year jail terms after shipping a 500kg cocaine haul through Nespresso facilities in Switzerland. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Criminal Court of Basel-Country handed out t...

A Swiss avalanche has buried a road near to Goppenstein in canton Valais shortly cutting off traffic to the Lötschental region. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Reports of the avalanche at the Rotloiwi gallery were receiv...

An anti-drone defence system ordered by the Swiss defence ministry contains key components from an Israeli arms company, research by Swiss public broadcaster SRF has discovered. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A CHF3.5 mi...