ZURICH, Dec 5 () - The Swiss government has won backing from a clear majority of groups it consulted over a ​new agreement ...

Hans-Joerg Rudloff, widely regarded as a titan of the bond market and a man who for half a century shaped global finance and several institutions around his vision, died on December 1 aged 85.

In the Swiss Alps, a plan to tidy up Romansh—spoken by less than one per cent of the country—set off a decades-long quarrel ...

Under Switzerland’s direct democratic system, 100,000 signatures are needed to put virtually any issue to a popular vote, ...

Schneider: In recent years, "Cool China" has become a symbol of China's rising soft power. It is precisely this kind of soft ...

Switzerland votes Sunday on whether to replace the current men-only military conscription with a compulsory civic duty for ...

The spy agency uses its’s Electronic Operations Centre in Zimmerwald in canton Bern to watch for keywords sent over the ...

We are still in this situation where the Palestinian people have no say in how they want to govern themselves, or in what ...

Mr. Nordstrom, 63, is the great-grandson of the founder of the company, which opened its first store in 1901 in Seattle. Mr.

Albino alligators rarely survive long in the wild, but American alligators can live up to 70 years in captivity, according to ...

A 2015 national vote on a 20 percent inheritance levy on estates above 2m francs to fund pensions failed with more than 70 percent opposing it, and in 2023, 55 percent of voters in Geneva rejected a ...

The freestyle discipline of ski ballet originated in the 1960s as an expression of creativity on the slopes, trading ...