Vladimir Petkovic has left the national football team to join French club Bordeaux. Petkovic was the most successful coach in the country’s history. Following a few days of media speculation, the Swiss Football Association confirmed the departure ...

Older people who decide to get vaccinated against Covid-19 mainly want to protect their own health, while younger ones want to travel and live again, as well as protecting the more vulnerable in society. That is according to an online survey of som...

Swiss federal prosecutors have dropped a controversial decade-long investigation into alleged Russian money-laundering in a case that has been linked to the 2009 death in jail of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. The Office of the Attorney General ...

A former trader with Swiss commodity and mining giant Glencore pleaded guilty in the United States to charges arising from the role he played in a Nigeria bribery scheme to get favourable oil contracts from the African Nation. US prosecutors accus...

Switzerland has invested a lot of resources to promote fairer vaccine access across the world, says Virginie Masserey, head of infections control at the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH). Speaking with Swiss public broadcaster RTS on Monday ev...

Of the 1,100 people killed by the coronavirus in Switzerland since the end of January, 18 had received both doses of the vaccine. The numbers, that were first published in 20 Minuten, were confirmed by the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) on ...

Switzerland saw a 20% drop in known cases of highly infectious diseases in 2020 as a result of government and individual measures taken to contain the spread of Covid-19. On Monday, the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) revealed that around 65...

The Swiss Football Association says French club Bordeaux is trying to poach its coach, Vladimir Petkovic, the most successful national manager in Swiss history. Petkovic is credited for getting Switzerland to the quarterfinals of the European Champ...

Switzerland’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has allowed one of the largest state-owned commercial banks of China to open a subsidiary in Geneva. Bank of China announced on Monday that it had received the greenlight after complet...

The Swiss bank and its former top manager Iqbal Khan have agreed to end all pending criminal proceedings in a 2019 spying affair that toppled the company’s top brass. Speaking to the Reuters news agency, a spokesperson for Credit Suisse confirmed ...

To effectively fight the global pandemic, rich countries like Switzerland should donate their surplus Covid-19 vaccines to poorer countries immediately, says Thomas Cueni, president of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and ...

The president of the national marketing body Switzerland Tourism says the year 2021 is on course to be even worse than 2020, with 5% fewer hotel stays expected. "This is not good news, because 2020 was the worst year in history" for the sector, Mart...

A Swiss cargo aircraft carrying 600 oxygen concentrators left Zurich for Jakarta on Saturday, following an appeal for assistance from the Indonesian authorities to fight the pandemic. The shipment, valued at nearly CHF1 million ($1.09 million), also...

The Strategic Stability Dialogue to which United States President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin committed when they met in Geneva last month will take place in the same city next week. The two leaders had agreed to have a “d...

Swiss President Guy Parmelin said economic ties were strong and relations between the two countries excellent following his meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in Tokyo on Saturday. Parmelin, who heads the economics ministry, stresse...

Engineers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) say they have built Europe’s “first operational model Hyperloop” to test a new-generation high-speed transport system. The 120-metre test track is a circular construction s...

Technical issues with his plane meant Guy Parmelin, who holds the rotating Swiss presidency this year, was unable to meet Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi on Friday. Despite having to wait for his aircraft to be fixe...

Studying seismic activity on Mars has challenged previous assumptions about the Red Planet, most notably the size and composition of its core. The new picture has been built up since 2019 using a NASA probe as part of the Mars InSight mission. Resea...

Swiss athlete Kariem Hussein will not be travelling to Tokyo to take part in the Olympic Games having failed in a last ditch bid to overturn a doping ban. The verdict was made public by Swiss Athletics on the day the Olympic Games opens. Hussein had...

Security tests on the Swiss Covid certificate have so far revealed 136 possible vulnerabilities, the government said on Thursday. This is normal, it added, given the extensive amount of programming code and infrastructures. In a 16-page report, the ...

After criticism by rights groups and two warnings from a federal court, Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) has been cutting back the number of accelerated asylum procedures. On Thursday SEM confirmed a report by Swiss public radio...

The short spring and wet summer means Swiss bees have produced ten times less honey than usual. As a result the price of honey is set to increase. After last year’s exceptional harvest, 2021 is looking very meagre: while a hive normally produces 1...

Physical concerts and events remain much more popular in Switzerland than digital alternatives. But people are willing to fork out cash for online shows. In the “Events Switzerland 2021” survey, published on Thursday by the Zurich School of Appl...

Google has appealed a recent Swiss decision to award a cloud-computing contract to five other digital firms. The tender process has also come under criticism by defenders of data sovereignty. Google’s appeal targets the government’s decision las...

Over 60,000 petitioners want the government to rethink plans to begin phasing out FM radio next year. Private radio entrepreneur Roger Schawinski, who started the petition, said on Wednesday that the phasing out of very high frequency waves (VHF-FM)...

Numbers engaging in outdoor activities like walking, cycling or mountain biking continued to rise in Switzerland in 2019, the Federal Office for Roads (ASTRA) has reported. This is also good news for the economy. Some 57% of Swiss residents labelled...

Several thousand Swiss citizens live in parts of Germany hard hit by recent floods and storms. Those who suffered concrete damage can now access a relief fund run by the Organisation of the Swiss Abroad (OSA) in Germany. “Currently €12,000 (CHF1...

Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis and the European Commissioner for Budget and Administration Johannes Hahn have met in Brussels for informal exchanges. Despite the differences between Switzerland and the 27-state bloc, the tone remained amicable...

Swiss health experts have called on people to get vaccinated against Covid-19 to prevent another wave of the pandemic later this year. Patrick Mathys of the Federal Office of Public Health confirmed a rapid increase in the number of infections, but ...

Switzerland is ready to enter negotiations on association to the EU’s research and innovation programme “Horizon Europe”, says Swiss State Secretary Martina Hirayama. In a meeting with EU politicians, Hirayama suggested that European and world...