Switzerland
Family’s Balcony Death in Switzerland Appears to Be Suicide
The four members of a French family who were found dead at the bottom of an apartment building in a Swiss resort town last week appear to have jumped off a balcony, “one after the other,” as part of a group suicide, the Swiss police said. The police said on Tuesday that their investigation suggests […]
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4 Die After Falling From Balcony in Swiss Resort Town
Four people, apparently members of the same family, died after falling from the balcony of their seventh-floor apartment in Montreux, western Switzerland, on Thursday, the police said in a statement. A fifth person, a teenage boy, who also fell from the balcony, was hospitalized in serious condition, they said. The five people have not been […]
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Switzerland Says it Will Freeze Russian Assets
GENEVA — Switzerland, a favorite destination for Russian oligarchs and their money, announced on Monday that it would freeze Russian financial assets in the country, setting aside a deeply rooted tradition of neutrality to join the European Union and a growing number of nations seeking to penalize Russia for the invasion of Ukraine. After a […]
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What to Know About Boosters and Vaccine Restrictions for International Travel
Israel’s policy is currently the closest to Switzerland’s, but it is likely to change yet again. A second or third shot is only valid for six months, so under those rules someone who got their booster in December wouldn’t be able to enter come June or July unless a fourth shot became available. But according […]
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Swiss Approve Ban on Tobacco Ads
ZURICH — Advertisements glamorizing cigarettes will soon be a thing of the past in Switzerland, after voters on Sunday overwhelmingly approved legislation forbidding tobacco companies from displaying them in public spaces. Health advocates have said that the legislation, which was approved in a referendum, was a significant step toward tightening the country’s loose tobacco regulations. […]
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It’s Gold, Baby. But Niclas Castello’s Cube Is Nothing New in Art.
The fun thing about conceptual art is that it’s totally easy to create. You can say something about the increasingly virtual way many of us experience the world, and the explosive popularity of NFTs (nonfungible tokens) — or seem to say something profound, anyway — just by staging a Central Park happening around a knee-high […]
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Meet the Woman Who Helped Set a Speed Record on a Classic Alpine Ski Route
So how did you and Ms. Gerardi team up? It was February or March 2019, and we both did a 1,000-meter vertical ski race. Hillary won, and I came in second. We were waiting for the awards ceremony after the race and my partner, Ben, heard her talking about how she wanted to set a […]
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Omicron Could Knock a Fragile Economic Recovery Off Track
LONDON — This week, Marisha Wallace finally had to admit that her planned five-day ski holiday in Switzerland in mid-December was not salvageable: The Swiss government’s sudden decision to impose a 10-day quarantine on some international travelers meant she wouldn’t be able to leave her hotel or return home to London on her scheduled flight. […]
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The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp
There’s an object in the Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective of the Swiss polymath Sophie Taeuber-Arp that’s so covetable I wanted to squeeze it. It dates from 1922, and takes the form of triangles that lock together into an allover pattern of blue and pink, brown and olive. Interrupting these abstract forms are five red […]
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