French authorities, with the support of Europol and the Swiss Federal Police Office, have dismantled a Europe-wide arms-smuggling ring. Ten suspects were arrested in the south of France and assets worth over €1.2 million (CHF1.1 million) were seize...

Swiss President Guy Parmelin discussed the negotiations on a free trade agreement with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Evian. He had travelled to the French town on Lake Geneva on Tuesday to attend the G7 summit’s gala dinner. +Get the most ...

The mayor of Crans-Montana, Nicolas Féraud, apologised to his constituents on Tuesday evening. He had not spoken publicly since the press conference following the devastating fire on New Year's Day. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in y...

The memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran on ending the war is due to be signed on Friday at Bürgenstock, a mountain resort in central Switzerland that played host to a Ukraine peace summit in 2024. +Get the most important n...

The Senate on Tuesday approved for the second time a motion from the House of Representatives that calls on the Swiss government to open negotiations with Brussels on a security and defence agreement. NATO was ultimately excluded from this demand. +G...

Starting Tuesday, paediatricians in Switzerland will be using new standardised growth charts. Unlike the growth charts used previously, these ones are based on national data and are therefore expected to provide a more accurate indication of a child'...

European Union member states say that the stabilisation and development of relations with Switzerland are only possible through the new package of deals, known as Bilateral Agreements III. In their view, the status quo is not a viable alternative. +G...

Researchers in Switzerland have calculated the incidence of sunlight so precisely that even the shadow cast by every single tree is recorded in a new map of where the sun shines and where it doesn't in the Alpine country. +Get the most important news...

According to Iranian sources, a further round of negotiations between the United States and Iran is set to begin in Switzerland immediately after an initial accord is signed on Friday. These further talks are expected to be concluded within 60 days. ...

Nearly one in three young men in Switzerland believes in the idea of masculinity based on dominance, a new study out on Tuesday shows. These men are more likely to condone violence and hold misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ+ attitudes. +Get the most import...

For five years, around 3,300 people in the canton of St. Gallen in northeastern Switzerland will be able to buy cannabis legally. This is part of a nationwide study on cannabis use, which was presented on Tuesday by the Swiss Cannabis Research associ...

Following the House of Representatives, the Swiss Senate has now also given the green light to increasing the number of Swiss soldiers serving in the Swisscoy contingent in Kosovo. This means the government can now deploy up to 300 military personnel...

A new poll conducted by the Leewas Institute shows 46% of Swiss would support the new set of bilateral accords with the European Union, just edging those who would reject it, at 40%. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A detai...

On Monday evening, Swiss President Guy Parmelin welcomed his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky for a bilateral meeting at Geneva Airport. On the agenda were Switzerland’s good offices in the conflict between Kyiv and Moscow, the reconstructi...

Both chambers of the Swiss parliament have agreed to allocate CHF58.3 million for European Union research programmes. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The funding forms part of the supplementary budget for 2026, which total...

United States president Donald Trump has landed at Geneva airport, where he was met by Swiss president Guy Parmelin and the US ambassador to Switzerland, Callista Gingrich. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Trump was on the ...

The Winterthur extremism unit alerted the Swiss city’s police about 13 cases of potential violence or self-harm last year. But the unit was unable to prevent a train station knife attack last month. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in ...

Critics of the G7 met for a counter-summit over the weekend to talk about artificial intelligence (AI) and inequality. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Protests and riots marked the weekend in Geneva as opponents of the G7 ...

Opposition is growing to a law that effectively bans the wearing of full-coverage UV-protective swimwear in pools in canton Geneva. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Following Vernier, it is now the turn of Meyrin, Carouge, ...

A new brain pacemaker, developed in Switzerland, could help people with Parkinson’s disease to become more mobile. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The system uses artificial intelligence (AI) to detect patients’ curren...

Three people have been detained in custody following an anti-G7 demonstration in Geneva that witnessed violent scenes at the weekend. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox They were among 549 people stopped by police on Sunday, ...

Demand for artificial intelligence (AI) skills has risen significantly in Switzerland. There is a particular demand for employees who can apply AI in their day-to-day work. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In 2025, the numb...

Switzerland will be well represented at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, with six films selected for the event which runs from June 21 to 27. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Several filmmakers from French-...

The international press has breathed a “sigh of relief” at the rejection of the “No to ten million” Swiss anti-immigration initiative on Sunday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox But this is tempered by concern that ...

The European Union has welcomed the decision of Swiss voters to reject the “No to ten million” initiative, which proposed imposing caps on immigration. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox European Commission president Ursu...

The United States and Iran are set to end hostilities by signing a peace treaty in the Swiss city of Geneva on Friday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The two warring parties have agreed to the immediate cessation of all h...

Voters in the canton of Zurich on Sunday rejected both a comprehensive state intervention in the housing market proposed by the left and a set of rigid quota regulations proposed by the centre-right. The so-called housing initiative failed to secure ...

Protesters set fire to a car and smashed the windows of a bank in Geneva on Sunday during an anti-G7 march in the Swiss city. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Protesters threw projectiles, including bicycles, at the police,...

Thousands of people took part in feminist strikes in Basel, Lucerne, Zurich and Bern on Sunday to raise awareness about wage discrimination, gender violence and harassment of women in the workplace. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in yo...

Geneva has banned cantonal and municipal lawmakers from wearing visible religious symbols during parliamentary sessions. On Sunday, voters approved a constitutional amendment to this effect by a narrow majority. +Get the most important news from Swit...