Swiss interior minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider wants better protection against sexual violence involving date rape drugs. “We must improve prevention and public information,” Baume-Schneider told the SonntagsBlick newspaper. The public is larg...

The 33rd Street Parade has begun in Zurich with hundreds of thousands of people enjoying the festivities in hot and sunny weather. At 2pm, the first Love Mobiles set off. The parade wound its way round lake Zurich. This year, 30 Love Mobiles are taki...

Celebrated Swiss actor Jean-Luc Bideau will receive a lifetime achievement award at the Locarno Film Festival. Also at the weekend, Bideau will be seen starring in François-Christophe Marzal’s film Ah que le bonheur est proche ! At the age of 86, ...

Belgian-French actress Virginie Efira has received the Leopard Club Award at the 79th Locarno Film Festival. This award recognises a figure whose work in cinema has left a lasting impression on the collective imagination. Winner of a César Award in ...

The owners of a Swiss bar at the centre of a deadly fire disaster must continue to report daily to police and have their movements restricted. Jacques and Jessica Moretti, who own the Le Constellation bar that went up in flames on New Year's Eve, hav...

A judicial investigation has been launched in the Central African Republic into the murder of a geologist from Ticino and a soldier, who were abducted and murdered. The pair were killed between July 31 and August 1 to the north of the country's capit...

Italy has appointed a new ambassador to Switzerland. Luca Sabbatucci, currently ambassador to international organisations in Paris, succeeds Gian Lorenzo Cornado, who has retired. In a statement released today, parliamentarian Simone Billi, represent...

After 33 days at sea, four Swiss rowers are back on solid ground having become the first people to row across the Arctic region unassisted. During their mission, the Arctic Row team braved adverse weather conditions and set new landmarks in the proce...

A wallaby has been captured in central Switzerland and returned to its owner after hopping away from a farm. The newspaper Blick published a short video of the marsupial (originally thought to be a kangaroo) near the edge of a woodland near a youth c...

Summer skiing in the Swiss Saas-Fee resort is to be suspended from next week following a similar decision in Zermatt. At the end of July, canton Valais resport Zermatt suspended operations due to melting glaciers. + Global consequences of a glacier-f...

The 22 members of the Swiss armed forces, who had been fighting the forest fires in Corsica using three Super Puma helicopters, returned to Switzerland on Friday. Since July 28, they had dropped 452 tonnes of water to extinguish the fires. + How to p...

The Swiss Farmers’ Union is calling on the business community and politicians to help agriculture cope with the drought. A lack of rainfall has resulted in emergency slaughter due to a shortage of feed, a slump in milk production caused by animals ...

A Swiss court has sentenced 11 men for rioting at a Turkish Children’s Festival in Basel in 2022. The court handed down suspended prison sentences in the majority of cases. Three further defendants were acquitted. With one exception, the 11 men wer...

Swiss farmers will be allowed to import maize for animal feed duty-free from mid-August. The government announced the new measure to support the agricultural sector, which has been hit hard by the ongoing drought. + Sparse rainfall puts Switzerland o...

Mountain guides are suspending climbing tours until further notice following a rockfall on the south face of the iconic Swiss mountain Matterhorn. A massive landslide threw up huge clouds of dust and loose boulders at an altitude of 3,900 metres on W...

A man has been arrested under suspicion of perpetrating serious sexual offenses after drugging several women in a second such case in the Swiss canton of Aargau. Videos show the man performing sexual acts on several women, at least one of whom was un...

Swiss reinsurance giant Swiss Re cannot quantify the economic damage caused by the severe forest fires that have ravaged several European countries. However, the company expects that these events will not have a material impact on its financial resul...

A critical report on the production of F-35 fighter jets has been banned by the Pentagon from publication in the United States, a source within the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) told Swiss public broadcaster RTS. An expert interviewed by ...

The Valais public prosecutor's office has rejected Italy's request to be a plaintiff in the criminal proceedings related to the fatal New Year’s Eve fire in Crans-Montana. Italy has lodged an appeal on the grounds of suffering "direct harm" by the ...

The historical drama A bras-le-corps, the black-and-white philosophical film Cosmos and the documentary about Gaza’s survivors, Qui vit encore, are in the running for Switzerland’s Oscar nomination. The three French language films have been short...

The Swiss pension system is showing signs of increasing fragility, according to a study published on Thursday by the consultancy firm VermögensZentrum (VZ). Public confidence in the state old-age pension scheme stands at roughly 25%. Expected pensio...

The “No to ten million” immigration initiative failed at the ballot box in June due to fears among voters over the potential foreign policy consequences, a new analysis by institute gfs.bern shows. According to survey results published on Thursda...

Swiss retail sales rose slightly in the first half of 2026. But while online retail continued to grow, parts of the non-food bricks-and-mortar sector saw a decline in turnover. Online retail continued to grow strongly in the first six months of 2026,...

Investment in Swiss film production rose by 25% in 2025 thanks to the implementation of an obligation under the Film Act, dubbed Lex Netflix. Streaming platforms and television broadcasters allocated CHF19.9 million ($24.5 million) to domestic produc...

Six cheetahs have come into the world at Basel Zoo. The sextuplets consist of four males and two females. The cubs are all healthy and have been given names, the zoo announced on Thursday. In the year 2026, newborns at Basel Zoo are being given names...

Switzerland will find it difficult to meet its 2030 climate target, Environment Minister Albert Rösti said on Thursday. He pointed to budgetary restrictions imposed by the government. As a significant proportion of Switzerland's CO₂ reductions is ...

The Basel-City Public Prosecutor’s Office has opened criminal proceedings on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with a Legionella outbreak in which one person has died. The public prosecutor’s office in the Swiss city has opened proceedings ...

Swiss Post will raise the price for posting a letter starting in 2027, the country's price watchdog announced on Thursday. Parcel prices, however, will remain unchanged until the end of 2029. The weight categories for letters will also be revised. Th...

Following fierce criticism of Gianni Infantino’s plans to sell off stakes in the World Cup, FIFA’s leadership has demonstratively rallied behind their president. The Zurich-based body will not tolerate attacks on its integrity, members of the man...

The Locarno Film Festival kicked off ten days of cinema on Wednesday, featuring tributes, new discoveries and competition. Italian actress Isabella Rossellini was presented with a lifetime achievement award at the opening ceremony. "This award fills ...