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People living in or visiting Haute-Savoie in neighbouring France will have to wear masks outdoors again in many places following a rise in the number of Covid-19 cases in the department.

Jean-Pierre Hocké, a Swiss national who was the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in the late 1980s, has died in Lausanne at the age of 83.

The Swiss chocolate favourite, Lindt and Sprüngli’s gold-foil-wrapped Easter Bunny, has been given protected status by a court in Germany.

Senior US and Russian officials restarted talks in Geneva yesterday on easing tensions between the world’s largest nuclear weapons powers and agreed to reconvene in September.

Right-wing voters in Switzerland are more likely to remove candidates who do not have a typically Swiss-sounding name from political party lists, according to a study by the universities of Lucerne and Geneva.

Another shipment of anti-Covid-19 equipment has left Switzerland, this time headed to Thailand, which is facing its worst wave yet of the pandemic.