Switzerland

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Switzerland to erect first national memorial honoring Nazi victims

(JTA) — The Swiss government agreed Wednesday to help pay for the country’s first national memorial to honor the 6 million Jews and other victims of the Holocaust.

https://www.jta.org/2023/04/28/global/switzerland-to-erect-first-national-memorial-honoring-nazi-victims?

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Dutch archives on accused Nazi collaborators to open to the public in 2025

(JTA) — The Dutch government is planning to throw open information about 300,000 people investigated for their collaboration with the Nazis, in a move that could accelerate a reckoning with the Netherlands’ Holocaust record.

https://www.jta.org/2023/04/28/global/dutch-archives-on-accused-nazi-collaborators-to-open-to-the-public-in-2025?

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4 members of a billionaire family get prison in Switzerland for exploiting domestic workers

GENEVA (AP) — An Indian-born billionaire and three family members were sentenced to prison on Friday for exploiting domestic workers at their lakeside villa in Switzerland by seizing their passports, barring them from going out and making them work up to 18 hours a day.

https://apnews.com/article/hinduja-switzerland-geneva-human-trafficking-exploitation-india-b0a40f9872ea096c4722754c1267490b?

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Swiss teenage cyclist Muriel Furrer has died after crashing at the road world champs

ZURICH (AP) — Swiss 18-year-old cyclist Muriel Furrer died on Friday, one day after sustaining a head injury in a crash at the road world championships.

https://apnews.com/article/road-cycling-worlds-swiss-rider-dies-e6fa3db871cdb493899beaa2cf561793?

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Alpine village is largely destroyed when a Swiss glacier collapses

GENEVA (AP) — A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier thundered down a Swiss mountainside on Wednesday, sending plumes of dust skyward and coating with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month as a precaution.

https://apnews.com/article/switzerland-alps-blatten-evacuation-landslide-28e15e240eacb40bcbdb6a8f15d49398?

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Swiss voters reject mandatory national service for women and new inheritance tax

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss voters on Sunday decisively rejected a call to require women to do national service in the military, civil protection teams or other forms, as men must do already.

https://apnews.com/article/switzerland-national-service-44e23e7d0579058f2bc69dd9ce7e655d?

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About 40 people dead and 115 injured in fire at Swiss Alpine bar during New Year’s celebration

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — About 40 people were killed and another 115 injured, most of them seriously, after a fire ripped through a bar’s New Year celebration in a Swiss Alpine resort less than two hours after midnight Thursday, police said.

https://apnews.com/article/switzerland-crans-montana-bar-fire-ff049a656af75e65703c5febb908786c?

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Swiss investigators believe sparkling candles atop wine bottles ignited fatal bar fire

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Investigators said Friday that they believe sparkling candles atop Champagne bottles ignited a fatal fire at a Swiss ski resort when they came too close to the ceiling of a bar crowded with New Year’s Eve revelers.

https://apnews.com/article/switzerland-crans-montana-bar-fire-1bcad7b8d8fddabe1e1c59bafc71e689?

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‘An incomprehensible nightmare’: grief turns to anger over Swiss bar fire as Le Constellation owner arrested

Jacques Moretti arrested on Friday as lawyers representing families of victims say investigators are not moving fast enough

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/09/swiss-bar-fire-le-constellation-owner-arrested?

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Nestlé says 413,793 KitKat candy bars stolen en route from Italy to Poland

GENEVA (AP) — Swiss food giant Nestlé says about 12 tons, or 413,793 candy bars, of its KitKat chocolate brand were stolen after leaving its production site in Italy earlier this week for Poland.

https://apnews.com/article/nestle-switzerland-candy-bar-stolen-kitkat-51073cce27a0e193651aa7f31aaa506e?

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Swiss wait to hear result of ballot on capping population at 10 million

A national ballot on an unprecedented far-right proposal to limit Switzerland’s population to 10 million concludes this weekend, amid warnings of devastating consequences for the country’s economy if voters back the initiative.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/13/swiss-wait-to-hear-result-of-ballot-on-capping-population-at-10-million?