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SWI swissinfo.ch

Our partner organisation SWI swissinfo.ch reports daily from Switzerland on the topics of politics, the economy, culture, society, science and direct democracy.

The platform provides information in ten languages, and offers top multimedia stories and analysis in German, French, Italian and English, as well as in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese and Russian.

SWI swissinfo.ch is a public-law news information platform of SRG SSR which was created from the former Swiss Radio International. It offers independent information from the fields of politics, the economy, culture, science and education as well as on direct democracy. Its target audience includes foreigners who are interested in Switzerland as well as Swiss abroad.

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SWI swissinfo.ch - a branch of Swiss Broadcasting Corporation SRG SSR Swiss perspectives in 10 languages

Swiss woman contracts Ebola in Nigeria

23. October 2026 - The patient is the wife of a Swiss employee at the embassy in Abuja, Nigeria. The Swiss foreign ministry has confirmed that a Swiss woman has…

Swiss top court upholds prison sentence for Sperisen

22. October 2026 - The Federal Supreme Court has dismissed Erwin Sperisen’s appeal against his conviction for aiding and abetting murder. It thereby upheld the 14-year…

Swiss and Austrian hostages freed in Niger

22. October 2026 - Two European nationals, a Swiss woman and an Austrian woman, who were kidnapped in Niger over a year ago, have been released. They have arrived in…

The girl who fled Rhodesia but never let go of her African roots

21. October 2026 - Marina Biber was eight when her family fled Rhodesia and came to Switzerland. Decades later, she stumbled across old television footage of herself as…

The Swiss banker who sought the freedom of Patagonia

04. October 2026 - From Switzerland’s financial centre to the Patagonian Steppe: how Swiss national Christoph Schär left the world of finance to build a new life as a…

September 27 votes: Swiss Abroad less dismissive of food security initiative

28. September 2026 - The two proposals put to the vote on Sunday, which were overwhelmingly rejected by the Swiss electorate as a whole, did not fare any better among the…

Are the Swiss Abroad a drain or a gain for Switzerland?

15. September 2026 - How do Swiss nationals living abroad contribute to the good of Switzerland? This is a question that often arises. Those concerned say they ease the…

Twenty-five years after 9/11: ‘I’ve never spoken about it until now’

11. September 2026 - On the morning of September 11, 2001, Swiss citizen Beat Reinhart was working directly opposite the Twin Towers. He witnessed the attacks first-hand.…

From grey skies to heatwaves: climate drives Swiss abroad

07. September 2026 - Every year, many Swiss choose to settle abroad for a better climate. In the past the main motivation was often to escape the country’s long grey…
 

SWI swissinfo.ch – a branch of Swiss Broadcasting Corporation SRG SSR

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