Olten, a Swiss rail network hub near the capital Bern, is where cocoa beans are delivered by cargo train to the Lindt factory ...

Chocolate manufacturer Lindt & Sprüngli has expanded its cocoa mass production plant in Olten, canton Solothurn, at a cost of ...

May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. Franco-Russian journalist Elena Servettaz, who has been working for SWI swissinfo.ch for ...

Swisstransplant is convinced that the number of organ donors will increase when the consent law change comes into force.

Two initiatives aimed at capping health insurance costs in Switzerland have the backing of a slim majority of voters, ...

World Press Freedom Day isn’t just a catchy slogan. Denying fair and open scrutiny of the facts is a disservice to society. And as SWI swissinfo.ch’s own journalists can attest, repression of the ...

Two drivers of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were killed by gunmen in Sudan on Thursday. Three other staff members were injured in the attack, the Geneva-based ICRC announced.

The 28-year-old has been provisionally detained for the time being, the Zurich public prosecutor’s office announced on Friday. It remains to be seen whether Keller will remain in custody for longer.

The approval was met with satisfaction by the project's organisers, but it also brings with it a certain amount of pressure.

According to the organisation Reporters Without Borders, Switzerland is now one of the ten countries that best protect freedom of the press worldwide. It now occupies 9th place in this ranking, up ...

Almost one in three people felt they had been the victim of discrimination between 2016 and 2022. Discrimination occurred most often in the form of verbal and psychological violence. These are the ...

Squirrels could have played a role in the spread of leprosy in the Middle Ages. Researchers at the University of Basel have identified the pathogen that caused the disease in medieval squirrel bones, ...