https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Data from the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) shows that the rate of contaminations is declining, especially in the hardest-hit Swiss cantons. https://www.thelocal.ch/20201123/in-numbers-reasons-to-be-optimistic-about-the-coronavirus-situation-in-switzerland Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:24:57 +0100 in-numbers-reasons-to-be-optimistic-about-the-coronavirus-situation-in-switzerland A woman has drowned in Lake Geneva when her sightseeing boat sank as a violent storm battered parts of Switzerland on Saturday, police said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20190616/woman-dies-after-storm-capsizes-lake-geneva-sightseeing-boat Sun, 16 Jun 2019 11:16:59 +0200 woman-dies-after-storm-capsizes-lake-geneva-sightseeing-boat Police have opened a murder investigation after the body of a 19-year-old woman who went missing two months ago was found last week next to Lake Neuchâtel. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180122/teenager-found-dead-by-lake-neuchtel-suspect-arrested Mon, 22 Jan 2018 11:57:29 +0100 teenager-found-dead-by-lake-neuchtel-suspect-arrested A driver who ran over and killed a drunk man lying on the road has been cleared of negligent homicide. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170922/driver-acquitted-over-killing-of-drunk-man Fri, 22 Sep 2017 12:09:21 +0200 driver-acquitted-over-killing-of-drunk-man A cyclist has been found guilty of causing the death of a fellow competitor in a cycle race in the canton of Aargau in 2014. https://www.thelocal.ch/20161124/cyclist-must-pay-400000-francs-damages-for-fatal-accident Thu, 24 Nov 2016 10:54:40 +0100 cyclist-must-pay-400000-francs-damages-for-fatal-accident A 44-year-old man died on a luge at Jakobsbad in eastern Switzerland on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160808/man-dies-in-unexplained-swiss-luge-accident Mon, 08 Aug 2016 11:17:37 +0200 man-dies-in-unexplained-swiss-luge-accident One in four deaths worldwide are due to environmental factors like air, water and soil pollution, as well as unsafe roads and workplace stress, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160315/unhealthy-environment-causes-14-of-deaths-globally-who Tue, 15 Mar 2016 10:03:58 +0100 unhealthy-environment-causes-14-of-deaths-globally-who People in French and Italian-speaking Switzerland are more likely to die from alcohol-related liver diseases than their countrymen in German-speaking cantons, according to a new study. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160307/swiss-study-reveals-mortality-roestigraben Mon, 07 Mar 2016 14:30:52 +0100 swiss-study-reveals-mortality-roestigraben Police have arrested a German woman and a Swiss man after the body of their daughter was found in their home in Staad, in the canton of Saint Gallen, on Tuesday afternoon. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150806/parents-arrested-after-daughter-found-dead Thu, 06 Aug 2015 14:12:56 +0200 parents-arrested-after-daughter-found-dead Swiss roads are safer than at any point since 1945, but motorcyclists are at greater risk of an accident than car drivers, according to new statistics. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150724/road-deaths-drop-to-lowest-level-in-70-years Fri, 24 Jul 2015 10:51:26 +0200 road-deaths-drop-to-lowest-level-in-70-years The five-year-old girl left in a boiling car in the canton of Ticino died from overheating, an autopsy has confirmed. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150723/autopsy-confirms-heat-killed-girl-left-in-car Thu, 23 Jul 2015 19:37:51 +0200 autopsy-confirms-heat-killed-girl-left-in-car A 56-year-old man who used to teach at a vocational training school in the canton of Lucerne is suspected of committing suicide by setting fire to himself in the school early on Monday, police said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150629/school-prof-sets-himself-on-fire-and-dies Mon, 29 Jun 2015 22:23:45 +0200 school-prof-sets-himself-on-fire-and-dies A 56-year-old woman died after being thrown from a horse during a training exercise at a riding school in the canton of Vaud, police said on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150625/equestrian-dies-after-being-thrown-from-horse Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:07:19 +0200 equestrian-dies-after-being-thrown-from-horse The 36-year-old-Swiss man who killed three in-laws and a neighbour near Zurich earlier this month was on a list of around 2,000 people in Switzerland considered by police to be potentially violent, a newspaper report on Sunday said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150518/swiss-police-track-2000-potentially-violent-people Mon, 18 May 2015 10:36:32 +0200 swiss-police-track-2000-potentially-violent-people An investigation is under way into an apartment fire that killed an 81-year-old woman in the canton of Valais on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150515/elderly-woman-dies-from-apartment-fire-in-valais Fri, 15 May 2015 11:55:28 +0200 elderly-woman-dies-from-apartment-fire-in-valais The Swiss man who shot dead three in-laws and a neighbour before turning the gun on himself near Zurich on Sunday was known to police, reports revealed on Monday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150511/killer Mon, 11 May 2015 12:58:58 +0200 killer A 49-year-old Irishman has confessed to savagely stabbing his wife to death in the vineyard village of Lutry in the canton of Vaud earlier this week, police said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150326/irishman-confesses-to-stabbing-wife-50-times Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:35:40 +0100 irishman-confesses-to-stabbing-wife-50-times A worker who visited an apartment in the vineyard village of Lutry to do some work got a shock when he discovered a dead 46-year-old woman soaked in blood, Vaud cantonal police said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150324/irishmans-dead-wife-found-soaked-in-blood Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:10:32 +0100 irishmans-dead-wife-found-soaked-in-blood The daughter and grandson of a man in his 80s, who died in front of his home at the east end of Lake Geneva last November, have admitted to killing him, Vaud cantonal police said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150108/daughter-and-grandson-admit-killing-senior Thu, 08 Jan 2015 23:06:00 +0100 daughter-and-grandson-admit-killing-senior A woman has been arrested after the bodies of her two toddlers were found in a house in Flaach, in the canton of Zurich, on New Year’s Day. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150102/mother-arrested-over-deaths-of-two-tots Fri, 02 Jan 2015 18:13:00 +0100 mother-arrested-over-deaths-of-two-tots