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The head of Switzerland's Bilingualism Forum is warning that pushing French teaching out of primary school would put national cohesion at risk.

The head of Swiss military procurement has made a secretive trip to Israel, and the Defence Department will not say who he met.

Zurich-based FIFA is opening its most prized competitions to private investors, in a move already drawing threats of a European boycott.

UBS has once again beaten analyst expectations, posting a sharp jump in second-quarter profits.

Swiss workers are the most enthusiastic users of artificial intelligence in Europe.

Wasp nests are surging across the country and French-speaking areas the worst-hit region.

We’re heading into a fireworks-free national day.

Switzerland is bracing for another blast of extreme heat, with temperatures set to reach 38°C by tomorrow and stay high well into August.

The Federal Administrative Court has stopped plans for extending Geneva's Tram 15 to Saint-Julien-en-Genevois.

Football's rulemakers have confirmed that Breel Embolo should not have been sent off in Switzerland's World Cup quarter-final against Argentina.

Russia is publicly attacking Switzerland's neutrality just two months before Swiss voters decide whether to enshrine it in the Constitution.

The Swiss Football Association is rethinking its support for FIFA president Gianni Infantino after the controversies of the recent World Cup.

Switzerland's watch industry is pushing Washington for an exemption from the new 12.5% US tariff that took effect on Friday.

Six years after the pandemic, around 400,000 are still living with long Covid, and most of the specialist clinics that treated them have closed.

The 49th Paléo Festival ended on a high, attracting 250,000 people over six days.

The European Court of Human Rights has condemned Switzerland for denying a pregnant detainee her right to family life.

The Green Party leader Lisa Mazzone is now attaching specific anti-overheating regulations and air-conditioned hospitals to her party's continuing campaign against Environment Minister Albert Rösti.

Births are rising again in Geneva after two years of decline.

Hidden beneath the surface of Lake Geneva, a major engineering project is underway.

The recent violent storms in central parts of the country have brought back memories of an horrific air crash in 1972 when a piece of debris, which had been lodged in a tree for more than 50 years, hit the ground.

Cantons Geneva, Valais, Fribourg, Zurich, Glarus and Schwyz have all imposed total fire bans as the drought pushes wildfire risk into the "high" or "very high" range across most of the country.

Fribourg dairy farmers are being forced to bring their cows down from the mountains months ahead of schedule, as the drought leaves nothing left to graze.

There’s growing anger following the death of a 30 year old motorcyclist over the weekend.

Dozens of women rallied in Bellinzona on Tuesday evening to protest domestic violence, after Ticino recorded its third femicide of the year on 9 July.

More than 20 people have already drowned in Switzerland this summer, yet the mood along Lake Geneva's shores remains untroubled.

Another heat wave is on the horizon. Our break from extreme heat will continue until Friday, with sunshine and temperatures between 26 and 29 degrees.

Switzerland is bracing for Donald Trump's tariff decision on Swiss goods, due by Friday at the latest.

A motion filed in the National Council would raise Switzerland's legal minimum holiday from four weeks to five for every employee.

A US-born scam known as "digital shoplifting" is reaching Swiss online shoppers.

A retiree in canton Vaud has turned the tables on two fake police officers who tried to scam him at home.

Train delays are climbing as heat cracks the rails.

Long swimsuits are once again allowed in Geneva's public pools, after the canton's constitutional court suspended the ban.

Aargau prosecutors are asking for a life sentence for a former Swiss People’s Party cantonal MP accused of drugging and raping several women and a girl over a period of years.

Switzerland's largest party is warning that the country's new treaty package with the European Union would let criminals cross the border freely, a claim legal experts call vastly exaggerated.

Switzerland's dams are less than half full, the lowest level in two decades, after weeks of heat and no rain have drained rivers and lakes across the country.

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The heatwave is taking a break this week, with MeteoSwiss forecasting cooler and more stable air across the country and no thunderstorm risk until Friday.

The most sought-after apartments, top-floor attic flats with big windows and lake views, are starting to lose their appeal as summers grow hotter.

Swiss publishing giant Ringier is reportedly ending the SonntagsBlick, closing one of the country's oldest Sunday newspapers after 57 years.

Small businesses that have grown dependent on generative AI are starting to feel the true cost of the technology.

Geneva hospitals are bracing for a delayed surge as symptoms of last week's heat wave hit patients days after the temperatures dropped.

The queue at the Gotthard road tunnel stretched back ten kilometres yesterday morning, meaning a wait of one hour and forty minutes for drivers heading south.

Around 300 people gathered at Vidy beach in Lausanne on Saturday for an anti-fascist picnic, two weeks after a 35-year-old man was attacked there by neo-nazi assailants in broad daylight.

The 60th Montreux Jazz Festival drew more than 250,000 people, with paid venues averaging 91% capacity.

Lightning killed 97 blacknose sheep in the Binn valley in Valais during last week’s storms.

Vaud and Valais have called off their heatwave alerts as thunderstorms move in and temperatures drop.

Switzerland's mountain guides are now telling climbers to stay off the Matterhorn entirely, as the heatwave makes conditions there dangerous.

Air conditioning is back at the centre of Geneva's political debate as the heatwave continues.

Switzerland has been condemned by the European Court of Human Rights over its treatment of two vegan detainees.

The Swiss/Swedish engineering firm, ABB is preparing the largest acquisition in its history, launching a takeover bid for British engineering firm Rotork.

Valais has already lost more people to accidents this year than in the whole of 2025 — 77 lives by mid-July, against 69 last year.

Valais is the canton where residents face the highest flood risk, with 24% of the population living in a hazard zone.

The numbers behind our brutal summer are now in, and MeteoSuisse says June ran three to four degrees above the 30-year average nationwide.

Two climbers have been killed by a rockfall on Mont Blanc as an early-summer heatwave leaves the standard route dangerously dry.

The Paléo music festival is bracing for whatever this summer's weather throws at it, with its own weather station and a meteorologist on site throughout the run.

Several unidentified drones flew close to the Gösgen nuclear plant on Sunday night, and police in Solothurn are still trying to work out who was behind them.

A Geneva MP is pushing to ban loud cars and motorcycles from city streets at night.

The heatwave is set to continue until tomorrow, with Geneva expected to reach 36 today, before temperatures ease back below 30 later this week - bringing highs back towards seasonal norms.

Feeling unwell in the heat is rarely a reason to call an ambulance in Switzerland, says the head of emergency medicine at Bern's Inselspital.

UK citizens travelling to Switzerland will soon benefit from free mobile roaming and faster airport arrivals under a new UK-Switzerland trade deal.

Canton Fribourg is urging bathers to stick to official beaches this summer, warning that low water levels and rising temperatures are letting bacteria multiply in the canton's rivers and lakes.

The Swiss People's Party has posted an AI-generated caricature of a transgender woman at Bern's Marzili public pool.

Switzerland could become a back door into Europe for cheap Chinese parcels, an NGO warns, because it has not matched the EU's new tax on small imports.

Eight of Geneva's eleven paddling pools are now closed as the city battles bacterial contamination during the heatwave.

Hospital rooms at the Geneva University Hospital are hitting 34 degrees - with temperatures in the cafeteria up at 40.

Crans-Montana is hoping for a broadly stable summer, more than six months after the New Year fire at the Constellation bar.

The federal weather service is warning that government budget cuts risk making our forecasts less accurate.

Rents in Geneva have risen 5.3% over the past year, putting the canton well above the national average of 2.5%, according to the property platform Homegate.

We’re going to get stronger air passenger rights, after the European Parliament voted for a major tightening of the rules.

Swiss international Johan Manzambi is joining Aston Villa in what looks set to be SC Freiburg's biggest sale ever.

The heatwave alert has been extended until Thursday, with temperatures set to climb as high as 37 degrees in some areas.

The Swiss team's manager, Murat Yakin has called Breel Embolo's red card 'unacceptable', as anger builds over the refereeing of Switzerland's World Cup quarter-final loss to Argentina.

A fire tore through part of Geneva's Jardin Anglais on Saturday morning, gutting several trees and damaging a lakeside building used by the Mouettes ferry service.

The heat is now hitting the country's dairy herds, with cows producing less milk as they burn extra energy to stay cool.

A hidden stretch of Lake Geneva shoreline has become the focus of a long-running battle over public nudity.

Nearly half of Swiss holidaymakers are choosing to learn a new skill on their summer break rather than simply lie on a beach.

Heat now kills more people in Switzerland than road accidents.

Geneva cantonal minister Carole-Anne Kast says Bern gave in too easily to France over who pays for last month's G7 summit in Évian.

The wildfire risk has climbed to the highest level so far, with Valais now under "very high danger" and open fires banned across several cantons.

Switzerland has become the first country in Europe to widen its HPV vaccine to everyone aged 9 to 45, including men up to 45.

With the Plateau facing 35 degrees on Thursday, Yverdon-les-Bains has installed 15 sensors to work out how hot its own streets really get.

Hundreds of football fans packed Geneva's La Praille shopping centre yesterday to meet Swiss star Xherdan Shaqiri.