The Latest Breaking News from Switzerland

The European Court of Human Rights on Wednesday began hearing cases against the governments of France and Switzerland over their alleged failings to protect the environment.

Switzerland will be aiming to maintain its winning momentum in the Euro 2024 qualifying campaign when they host Israel on Tuesday.

Last summer while dozens of Swiss pensioners were campaigning in the Alps to save their fast-melting glaciers, 85-year-old Marie-Eve Volkoff was instead stuck inside her small Geneva apartment watching pre-recorded TV programmes.

A case involving thousands of retired Swiss women is being heard at a European Court in France, the culmination of a six-year legal battle in which they claim their government's insufficient action on climate change violated their human rights.

The Swiss foreign policy tradition of neutrality should not include blocking re-exports of Swiss weapons to Ukraine, the Ukrainian ambassador to Switzerland said on Monday, adding the weapons were urgently needed to win the war against Russia.

A restructuring or liquidation would have triggered “major international upheaval," said finance minister Karin Keller-Sutter.

BCPG Plc, the power generation arm of energy conglomerate Bangchak Corporation Plc, plans to allocate 39 billion baht in capital spending to fund its domestic and overseas businesses and asset acquisitions, including those affected by ongoing banking problems in the US and Switzerland.

The initiative could be a potential remedy for the energy problem and the rising cost of electricity.

The forward will miss Israel's Euro 2024 double header against Kosovo and Switzerland.

Emily Franciose, from Colorado, US, was on a boarding school trip to the Bernese Alps when she was trapped under a 2,000ft-wide avalanche on the Gstelliwang slope in Bern, Switzerland

Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast and Vladimir Putin's bedfellow, Alina Kabaeva, 39, has been moved from Lugano in Switzerland to a forest hideaway in the depths of northern Russia