Rioters in the Swiss capital, Bern, were deliberately targeting police and trying to cause serious injury at the weekend, according to the head of the city police force. Ordinary police patrols without special protective clothing or helmets were deployed to the Reitschule cultural centre on Sunday evening. "Every stone that comes flying means an extremely...

Northern lights were spotted from Säntis, a mountain peak in northeastern Switzerland, on Monday night. A camera captured the colourful natural spectacle between the gaps in the clouds at 1.50am, according to the Swiss federal weather service. The last time auroras were seen in Switzerland was on November 5, 2023, the Federal Office of Meteorology and...

Victorinox is working on a pocketknife without blades. The increasing regulation of knives due to the violence in the world has prompted the Swiss company to re-think, CEO Carl Elsener said in an interview. "The blade gives rise to a weapon-like image in some markets," said Elsener in an interview with "Blick" published online on Monday. In England...

The head of the Swiss Football League (SFL) wants harsher penalties for troublemakers at stadiums. However, he repeated the stance that collective punishment measures are counter-productive. “We want tougher sentences for those who clearly can’t change their behaviour. That’s where we need to intervene,” Claudius Schäfer told the Blick newspaper on...

Swiss Defence Minister Viola Amherd, who also holds the country’s rotating presidency, emphasised on Sunday the importance of the Strasbourg-based institution on its 75th birthday. Thanks to the Council of Europe, democracy, human rights and the rule of law were re-established in Europe 75 years ago, Amherd wrote on Sunday. The institution represents...

In official negotiations on relations between Switzerland and the European Union (EU), which are re-starting after years of deadlock, Bern can count on the backing of Italy, according to Viola Amherd. “I have been promised support,” Amherd told the SonntagsBlick newspaper following a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Friday. “Italy...