The Latest Breaking News from Switzerland

In 1956, seven European countries – Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Switzerland and West Germany – gathered in Lugano, Switzerland for the first ever Eurovision Song Contest. The competition was only broadcast in select countries, meaning only a small number of viewers watched Swiss entry Lys Assia win the…

Stragglers packed up belongings in cars, trucks and at least one pickup truck before a looming deadline to evacuate a village in eastern Switzerland facing an urgent rockslide threat

Over 100 residents have been evacuated from the town of Brienz in eastern Switzerland, days after a giant rockslide concerned officials that the mountain is on the verge of collapse.

Residents in the village of Brienz have been ordered to abandon their tiny mountain home.

A parliamentary committee in Switzerland has recommended easing export controls for Swiss-made war materiel to help prop up the domestic defense industry

Swiss authorities have ordered residents to abandon a tiny mountain village in the eastern canton of Graubunden because of fears it could soon be buried beneath a collapsing mountainside.

Authorities in eastern Switzerland have ordered residents of the tiny village of Brienz to evacuate by Friday evening because geology experts say a mass of 2 million cubic meters of Alpine rock looming overhead could break loose

Greek-born 86-year-old, who denies the charge, to go on trial in Switzerland, where offence is alleged to have occurred

Officials say that people might not have the right travel insurance as they could be forced to travel to Switzerland for treatment

In one of Switzerland's largest military exercises in more than three decades, soldiers rehearsed repelling a fictional enemy, tossed grenades and fired live munitions as they showcased the self-defence capabilities that define their "armed neutrality".

A ticket from France and a ticket from Switzerland also matched the winning numbers