Moscow has placed the Russian operations of Geneva-headquartered Japan Tobacco International (JTI) under compulsory administration. According to a decree, president Vladimir Putin transferred JTI assets to the joint-stock company Promyschlennye Aktiv...

The husband of a Swiss Ebola patient has been discharged from Zurich University Hospital (USZ). He had not developed any symptoms and had therefore been transferred to a quarantine facility outside the hospital. The man, an employee of the Swiss Emba...

A 23-year-old Swiss woman has been arrested at Dallas Airport by United States immigration (ICE) agents. She is threatened with expulsion despite being married to a US national and in the process of applying for a Green Card. The woman is currently i...

Cybercriminals have turned their attention to refrigeration systems in Switzerland. A butcher’s shop in Bern was forced to temporarily close to protect food. "The electronic control systems of our refrigeration and deep-freeze units were tampered w...

Staff at Swiss media house Tamedia went on strike for an hour on Thursday morning to protest against 41 redundancies, including those of two trade union representatives within the editorial teams. The offices in Geneva, Lausanne, Zurich, Bern and Bas...