GENEVA (AP) — Elisabeth Kopp, an advocate of equal rights and the environment who was the first woman elected to Switzerland's seven-member executive branch, has died. She was 86. Kopp died April 7 in the town of Zumikon, near Zurich, from complications ...

SION, Switzerland, July 4 (Reuters) - On the terrace of a restaurant in the Swiss city of Sion sits a group of pioneers of women's football in Switzerland who have seen the beautiful game change beyond recognition. For ⁠72-year-old Madeleine Boll, seeing ...

The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday in favor of a group of elderly Swiss women who had argued that their government’s inadequate efforts to combat climate change put them at risk of dying during heat waves. The European court’s decision ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A Swiss citizen has been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in Niger's city of Agadez, according to local authorities and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. This is the second citizen of a Western country to be kidnapped ...

Advocacy groups behind a "suicide capsule" announced Sunday they have suspended applications to use the device until authorities in Switzerland complete a criminal investigation into a woman's voluntary death from its first use. The president of ...

Several people were detained in northern Switzerland where a 64-year-old woman from the U.S. ended her life in a suicide pod that replaces oxygen with nitrogen gas. Police said the unidentified woman’s death occurred Monday in a forest hut using a newly ...

STRASBOURG, April 9 (Reuters) - Europe's top human rights court ruled in favour of a group of elderly Swiss women who said their government violated their human rights by not doing enough to combat climate change. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR ...

Switzerland's federal criminal court on Monday convicted a Swiss-Italian woman of attempted murder and ties to the banned radical group Islamic State over the stabbing of two women in a department store. She was handed a nine-year prison sentence.

GENEVAGENEVA — Switzerland’s federal criminal court on Monday convicted a Swiss-Italian woman of attempted murder and ties to the banned radical group Islamic State over the stabbing of two women in a department store. She was handed a nine-year prison ...