Owing to a technical error, electronic votes in Sunday's nationwide ballots will probably not be counted in canton Basel City. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This was announced by the State Chancellery on Friday. More tha...

The Patriot air defence system ordered in the US has been delayed by several years. The Swiss government is therefore examining whether Switzerland should purchase an additional system for ground-based air defence, preferably produced in Europe. +Get...

The Swiss army will probably receive only 30 new F-35 fighter jets instead of 36. This is the government's current assumption. It is forgoing an additional CHF1 billion ($1.25 billion) loan and is only requesting a CHF394 million loan to cover additi...

From April 1, a ban on setting off pyrotechnics in publicly accessible areas will apply throughout Switzerland. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This was decided by a body of the Concordat of Building Directors of all 26 ca...

Two hundred women from all over Switzerland gathered at the Federal Palace on Friday for International Women's Day on Sunday. The programme included round tables, discussions and speeches on the theme of "Women and AI: between potential and risks, wh...

The Swiss embassy in Tehran remains open despite incessant US and Israeli bombing raids on the Iranian capital since Saturday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The foreign ministry confirmed this to the Swiss News Agency Ke...

Private restaurateurs are allowed to refuse children entry to their establishments. Aargau cantonal government says the economic freedom of publicans carries more weight in this case than the ban on discrimination. +Get the most important news from S...

Geneva's official chestnut tree, the Treille, put out its first leaf on Thursday. Recorded since March 16, 1818, this event symbolically marks the arrival of spring at the end of the lake. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "...

Meat consumed in Switzerland from imported animals must be better regulated. Following on from the Senate, the House of Representatives narrowly approved a motion to this effect on Thursday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox...

The bear on the coat of arms of canton Bern will continue to display its red penis, the cantonal government has ruled. The direction in which the animal faces will also remain the same. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The ...

After record sales in 2024, Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) saw numbers fall again last year. Turnover dropped by 2.6% to CHF5.5 billion ($7 billion), the airline said on Friday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Opera...

The Kunstmuseum Basel is opening the exhibition "The First Homosexuals" on Saturday. With around 80 works, it traces how new images of sexuality, gender and identity were formed from the first use of the word "homosexual" in 1869. +Get the most impor...

Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis and the European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas, have signed a joint declaration aimed at strengthening cooperation on foreign and security policy. Regular dialogue is planned. +Get ...

A special flight operated by Swiss International Airlines (SWISS) from Oman landed in Zurich on Thursday afternoon. On board the fully booked aircraft were Swiss travellers returning from the crisis region. + Get the most important news from Switzerl...

Over the last ten days the number of people injured in Crans-Montana being treated in Swiss hospitals has dropped from 21 to 12. Seven are in a rehabilitation clinic (-2). Twenty-six victims (-2), including nine Swiss nationals, are being treated abr...

The Swiss House of Representatives has voted against enshrining permanent and armed neutrality in the Constitution. It has rejected the neutrality initiative and, unlike the Senate, does not want a counter-proposal. + Get the most important news from...

A low-pressure system has stirred up desert sand from the Sahara and is now sending it across Switzerland. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox There is already a lot of Sahara dust in the air in the western part of the countr...

Swiss International Airlines (SWISS) has cancelled more flights to Dubai and Tel Aviv. Due to the tense situation in the Middle East, flights to Dubai have been cancelled until March 10 and those to Tel Aviv until March 22. A special SWISS repatriati...

In Brussels on Thursday Swiss Justice Minister Beat Jans and European Commissioner for Migration Magnus Brunner signed a deal to share flight passenger data. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The data exchanged will be used...

The growing global demand for US Patriot air defence missiles in the Middle East has consequences for Switzerland. The Swiss army will have to wait even longer for the Patriot air defence systems it has ordered, government sources told Swiss public t...

New plant protection products must be approved more quickly. Following in the footsteps of the House of Representatives, the Swiss Senate approved a parliamentary proposal on Thursday by 31 votes to 12, calling for pesticides approved in Europe to be...

Swiss Post has issued a special stamp to honour the Ice Hockey World Championships in Switzerland. This is printed on transparent chalk paper for the first time and is intended to be reminiscent of an ice rink. + Get the most important news from Swit...

The first 17 of around 70 diesel generators that Switzerland is supplying in response to the worst energy crisis in Ukraine since the Russian invasion arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday. All of the diesel generators should be in Ukraine by the end of March...

Swiss Post is honouring Alberto Giacometti with a new stamp featuring Walking Man I (L’Homme qui marche I), issued to mark the 125th anniversary of his birth and the 60th anniversary of his death. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in y...

Swiss government funding for Geneva's International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum was narrowly saved by the House of Representatives on Wednesday. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Swiss lawmakers in Bern supported a pr...

Four of the seven people arrested last week in an international anti-drugs operation were residents of Roveredo, a small Alpine municipality in southeastern Switzerland, it has been confirmed. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your in...

The Federal Criminal Court on Wednesday acquitted UBS in the Bulgarian funds case, which dates back to the Credit Suisse era. For the judges in Bellinzona, the bank was not guilty of aggravated money laundering. + Get the most important news from Swi...

The Swiss government wanted to cancel federal contributions to the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC)’s international services. This would have severely affected the financing of Swissinfo. On Wednesday, the House of Representatives voted against...

Swiss President Guy Parmelin has discussed the current Middle East conflict with Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa and Oman’s Sultan Haytham bin Tariq, expressing Switzerland’s solidarity during the talks. + Get the most important news fr...

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) is planning a special repatriation flight from Muscat, Oman, to Zurich on Thursday. The Airbus A340 will therefore fly to the capital of Oman on Wednesday. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your i...