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Swiss deliver Pakistan flood aid
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The United Nations says 1.8 million people are in dire need of water, food and shelter after the heaviest monsoon rains in 80 years. Northwestern Pakistan has been the hardest-hit. More rain is forecast in the coming days in the northwest and in southern provinces of Punjab and Sindh. Washed out bridges and roads have…
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Pop culture continues to be a big influence on Swiss parents, according to the First name hit parade 2007-2009, published by the Federal Statistics Office on Monday. Last year 78,286 births were registered – just under one every seven minutes – up from 76,691 the year before. Of these, 40,407 were male and 37,879 female.…
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Locarno showed the European premiere of his new film Cyrus on the Piazza Grande on Saturday night and is hosting a tribute to him throughout the week. “What I find really impressive is that you can assemble 8,000 people in the Piazza for a film,” Reilly told a news conference in the Ticino town a…
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Aegis Defence Services, one of the world’s largest private security contractors, has set up a Swiss holding company for its different operations, effectively moving its headquarters from London to Basel. It employs an estimated 20,000 soldiers, mostly in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of them are on contract to the United States defence department. While Swiss…
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