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Swiss send aid and experts to Peru

This content was published on Aug 17, 2007 While Swiss experts evaluate the situation and help coordinate aid in the devastated region, the Swiss Red Cross and Swiss Catholic charity Caritas have each sent SFr50,000 ($41,500) to go towards emergency aid. Also on Friday the Geneva-based International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies issued a preliminary emergency appeal for SFr1.6 million…

War history

This content was published on Aug 14, 2007

Billions needed for flood-control measures

This content was published on Aug 12, 2007 Government experts warned this weekend that an effective system of protection would require investment of several billion francs. The government has budgeted SFr147 million ($123 million) a year for the next four years for flood-control measures. But that is SFr100 million a year too little, according to Hans Peter Willi, head of hazard prevention at…

Novartis painkiller banned after deaths

This content was published on Aug 12, 2007 Prexige was approved for use in Australia in July 2004 and is approved in more than 50 other countries. It is currently being rolled out in Europe – although not in Switzerland – and Novartis will file the drug for marketing approval in the United States later this year. Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) said…

Swiss examine flood control measures

This content was published on Aug 10, 2007 The Federal Environment Office announced on Friday that, together with the cantons, it was keen to draw lessons from the recent storms and flooding – Switzerland’s worst for two years. Water levels rose and many lakes and rivers burst their banks on Thursday after two days of torrential rain across the country. Particularly hard hit…

Swiss start to count costs of floods

This content was published on Aug 10, 2007 Insurers have estimated the costs as reaching up to SFr60 million ($50.11 million) and many crops have been ruined following the worst storms in Switzerland for two years. Water levels rose and many lakes and rivers burst their banks on Thursday after two days of torrential rain across the country. Particularly hard hit were northwestern…

Heavy rain brings chaos across Switzerland

This content was published on Aug 9, 2007 By Thursday evening the levels of most affected lakes and rivers appeared to have peaked, but the situation in many areas, particularly along the River Aare, remained critical. The storms, the worst since the severe floods of 2005, led to chaos on the roads, with many closed as a result of flooding or landslides. Rail…

Heavy rainfall causes precarious situation

This content was published on Aug 9, 2007 Thousands of policemen, firemen, civil defence workers and soldiers are in action to pump water out of flooded cellars and clear roads as the rain continues. The situation has led to chaos on the roads, with many closed as a result of flooding or landslides. Rail traffic was also hit. Sirens sounded the alarm in…

Novartis suffers patent setback in India

This content was published on Aug 6, 2007 Watchdog groups said the decision was “a major victory for patients’ access to affordable medicines in developing countries”. But Novartis claimed patients would be denied new and better drugs. The Madras High Court said on Monday that it had no jurisdiction on whether Indian law, which denies patents for minor improvements to existing drugs, contradicted…

Swiss director enters the ring at Locarno

This content was published on Aug 3, 2007 His work, “Fuori dalle corde” (Off the Ropes), tells the story of a boxer who becomes involved in illegal fights. It is the fruit of a longstanding passion for cinema which started when Bernasconi was a boy. “One day I saw a photo in the newspaper of a film by [fellow Swiss director] Michel Beltrami,”…

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