By Gloria Dickie and Kate Abnett The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Tuesday in favour of a group of elderly Swiss women who had argued that their…
LONDON, March 8 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization on Friday urged governments to consider gender when developing their alcohol policies, warning that industry marketing increasingly targeted women who face…
Police have stepped up security measures at Jewish sites in Zurich following a serious knife attack on an orthodox Jewish man in the Swiss city overnight, local police said. Police…
ZURICH, March 3 (Reuters) - Switzerland voted for increased pension payments for the elderly in a referendum on Sunday, as concern over living costs trumped government doubts about its affordability,…
ZURICH, Feb 29 (Reuters) - The outlook for 2024 is uncertain, a group representing Switzerland's engineering and technology-linked sector warned on Thursday, as Swiss industrial companies wrestle with a strong…
Switzerland is increasing its efforts to crack down on companies and individuals who are using the neutral country to circumvent sanctions imposed on Russia. The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs…
ZURICH, (Reuters) - Switzerland is still in love with bank notes and coins, a survey by the central bank showed, despite the growth of mobile payment apps and predictions of…
Swiss authorities said a man armed with an axe and a knife held 15 hostages on a train for almost four hours, until police stormed the train and fatally wounded…
(Reuters) - Switzerland's famed hospitality management school, Ecole Hotelier de Lausanne (EHL), closed its campus in Lausanne on Saturday after cases of measles were discovered among students. "We have been…
GENEVA, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Countries risk missing a May deadline for agreeing a legally binding treaty on fighting pandemics and this would be a big blow for future generations,…
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 17 (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday said the phase-out of fossil fuels was essential and inevitable to avoid a global climate catastrophe. "Let…
Switzerland has agreed to host a global peace summit on Ukraine at the request of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Neutral Switzerland has previously acted as a broker to resolve conflicts…
Ukraine and Switzerland will host around 120 national security advisors on Sunday in the Swiss resort town of Davos, Switzerland's foreign affairs department said, the latest in a series of…
By Victoria Waldersee Jan 10 (Reuters) - Risk specialists see extreme weather and misinformation as most likely to trigger a global crisis in the next couple of years, a World…
Switzerland expects to see 30,000 asylum seekers this year, around the same number of people as in 2023. The number of asylum applications increased again last year. Although conclusive statistics…
The Swiss Federal Intelligence Service has no indications of concrete plans for terrorist attacks in Switzerland. However, the FIS still considers the threat of terrorism in Switzerland to be heightened,…
By John Revill Switzerland's capital is examining a pilot scheme to allow the sale of cocaine for recreational use - a radical approach to the war on drugs that is…
SION, Switzerland, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Police launched a manhunt after a shooter killed two people and wounded a third in the Swiss Alpine town of Sion early on Monday.…
By John Revill BERN, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Switzerland has frozen an estimated 7.7 billion Swiss francs ($8.81 billion) in financial assets belonging to Russians, the government said on Friday,…
Gérard Wertheimer remains at the top of the list of the 300 wealthiest people in Switzerland, who together with his brother Alain, the Frenchman owns Chanel. According to the 2023…
French President Emanuel Macron said he respects the tradition of Swiss neutrality, which is behind a refusal to allow war material re-exports to Ukraine. At the same time, he expressed his…
ZURICH, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Switzerland looked set to shift to the right after national elections on Sunday, as concerns about immigration trumped fears about climate change and melting glaciers,…
By Noele Illien and Cecile Mantovani ZURICH/GENEVA (Reuters) - The right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP) is set to bolster its position as Switzerland's leading political force in Sunday's parliamentary elections,…
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - High levels of inflation and increased costs of living are contributing to worldwide hunger, according to a survey of 16 countries commissioned by the humanitarian…
GENEVA, Oct 12 (Reuters) - The World Meteorological Organization said on Thursday that the hydrological cycle was increasingly out of balance due to climate change and made a call for…
GENEVA, Oct 9 (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. refugee agency said on Monday that the organisation was facing one of the most difficult moments in its history, with…
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Dengue fever will become a major threat in the southern United States, southern Europe and new parts of Africa this decade, the…
Mont Blanc, the highest peak in the Alps and Western Europe, has shrunk by more than two metres in two years and now stands at 4,805.59 m, French expert surveyors…
By John Revill ZURICH, (Reuters) - Switzerland's federal prosecutor said it has filed an indictment against the daughter of Uzbekistan's former president, accusing her of taking bribes and running an…
By Cecile Mantovani and Denis Balibouse ZURICH, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Switzerland's glaciers suffered their second worst melt rate this year after record 2022 losses, shrinking their overall volume by…
ZURICH, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Germany has welcomed a decision by neutral Switzerland to open the way to sell back some of its German-made Leopard II tanks to help rebuild…
The picture taken with a drone shows an aerial view of the Bavois Castle, in Bavois, Switzerland. The Chateau de Bavois was built in the 14th century. Photo: EPA-EFE/JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT
Smartphones should be banned from schools to help stop classroom disruption, a major United Nations report has recommended. Unesco, the educational, scientific and cultural wing of the UN, said the…
According to the latest figures from the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), the Swiss birth rate has fallen to its lowest level in 20 years, with 1.39 children per woman.…
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization warned that cases of dengue fever could reach close to record highs this year, partly due to global warming benefiting mosquitoes that spread…
By Denis Balibouse BITSCH, Switzerland (Reuters) - Swiss firefighters were battling a forest fire that has forced more than 200 people to evacuate, and authorities warned winds were making the…
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) - The sweetener aspartame is a "possible carcinogen" but it remains safe to consume at already-agreed levels, two groups linked to the World Health Organization…
GENEVA, July 13 (Reuters) - It is possible to end AIDS by 2030 if countries demonstrate the political will to invest in prevention and treatment and adopt non-discriminatory laws, the…
Three UN agencies warned that an ongoing rise in avian flu outbreaks globally raised concerns that the virus might adapt to infect humans more easily, and urged countries to strengthen…
By John Revill ZURICH, July 3 (Reuters) - Swiss inflation dipped to 1.7% in June, the government said on Monday, although economists expect the Swiss National Bank to stay its…
By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Cecile Mantovani GENEVA (Reuters) - Geneva Airport said it had reached a deal with public service staff to end a strike over pay which led to…
By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Cecile Mantovani GENEVA, June 30 (Reuters) - Air traffic at Geneva Airport was at a standstill early on Friday, with 64 flight arrivals and departures cancelled,…
The Asian hornet is spreading rapidly in Switzerland, with 66 sightings already reported in seven cantons this year, according to a bee health organisation. Favourable weather conditions are aiding the invasive…
GENEVA (Reuters) - Russia's ambassador to Switzerland said Moscow could not accept any Swiss-hosted peace summit on Ukraine after it joined European Union sanctions against his country, adding Switzerland had…
GENEVA, June 29 (Reuters) - Geneva Airport said some of its employees were planning to stage a strike on Friday that was likely to cause flight delays and cancellations at…
June 29 (Reuters) - Swiss financial regulator FINMA on Thursday said that the Federal Council yesterday adopted financial sanctions and travel restrictions against five people over actions to undermine the…
ZURICH, June 21 (Reuters) - Swiss President Alain Berset is to step down at the end of the year and leave the country's multi-party cabinet after 11 years, he said…
Swiss back 15% minimum business tax Minimum tax backed by business groups Climate law, rejected in 2021, passes Extension to COVID-19 law wins approval By Noele Illien ZURICH, (Reuters) -…
By Emma Farge and Cecile Mantovani GENEVA (Reuters) - The Swiss government hopes voters will support a draft climate law aiming to cut emissions to net zero by 2050 as…
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON, June 16 (Reuters) - There is an ongoing global threat posed by toxic cough syrups, the World Health Organization (WHO) told Reuters, saying it was now…
Swiss citizens vote this weekend on whether to raise business tax to 15% from an average of 11% to align with a global minimum tax rate, although even with the…
ZURICH, June 8 (Reuters) - Switzerland's parliament has formally agreed to establish a parliamentary commission (PUK) to look into Credit Suisse's collapse and rescue in a deal engineered by Swiss…
ZURICH, June 5 (Reuters) - Swiss annual inflation dipped to 2.2% as expected in May, government data showed on Monday, although the Swiss National Bank is still expected to hike…
By Emma Farge 9th American Amy Pope set to lead UN migration agency Says Western asylum systems are 'completely overwhelmed' Mediterranean deaths are symptom of broader trend GENEVA (Reuters) -…
ZURICH, June 1 (Reuters) - Cash still remains the most commonly used method of payment in Switzerland, the Swiss National Bank said on Thursday, despite increasing use of mobile payment…
GENEVA, May 22 (Reuters) - The head of the World Health Organization on Monday urged countries to carry out the reforms needed to prepare for the next pandemic and honour…
LONDON, May 15 (Reuters) - Britain and Switzerland will begin talks on an upgraded free trade agreement on Monday, with British trade secretary Kemi Badenoch flying to Bern aiming to boost financial…