October 2024 in Lausanne for the Ukraine Mine Action Conference 2024 (UMAC2024). At the end of the first high-level day, the Lausanne Call for Action was adopted, calling for concrete action by states ...

Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), met in Switzerland over the weekend with Ksenia ...

Negative attitudes towards foreigners have risen in Switzerland, with new proposals to limit, or even severely restrict, the ...

Swiss authorities have given the greenlight to a three-year pilot project to install removable solar panels on a railway track in western Switzerland.

The move to impose a 50-franc fee on those who seek emergency care at a hospital in Switzerland without a doctor’s referral ...

Switzerland is a European country that is home to the Swiss Alps and is a popular vacation destination. Among Switzerland’s industries, finance is a top sector. The country’s official ...

The Vaud produces the second highest amount of Switzerland’s wine, 90% of which is consumed by the Swiss. Looking around from the hill in the centre of Lausanne, the steep, mineral-rich slopes of ...

Switzerland and Italy redrew their shared border in the Alps last week, forced by melting glaciers that, along with vast snowfields, define large sections of the territorial boundary between the ...

Part of the border between Italy and Switzerland is set to be redrawn as the glaciers that mark the boundary melt, in yet another sign of how much humans are changing the world by burning planet ...

As we look forward to Basel 2025, we take a look back to Lausanne 1989, to see how it all played out the last time the Eurovision Song Contest ended up in Switzerland's capable hands. Where did host ...