WRS

Switzerland could be forced to pay around CHF 1 billion a year under an EU reform of cross-border worker unemployment benefits.

Switzerland's cantonal police chiefs are warning that a yes vote on the SVP's "No to 10 million" initiative would seriously compromise Swiss security.

The Swiss federal railways are preparing to retire around 400 trains contaminated with asbestos or other hazardous substances.

The Swiss National Council will debate this summer whether to confiscate former army weapons that have been sitting unused in homes for more than a decade.

The 31-year-old Turkish-Swiss man suspected of last Thursday's knife attack in Winterthur has been placed in pretrial detention.

Activists planning a major counter-summit just over the French border from Geneva have called the protest off, two weeks before G7 leaders meet at Évian-les-Bains.