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Swiss regions lean on Airbnb to collect tourist tax

This content was published on Jan 16, 2018 As the number of Airbnb offers in Switzerland continues to grow, cantons and parliamentarians continue to discuss ways to regulate the platform.

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A funeral for 300 people from the Middle Ages

This content was published on Jan 16, 2018

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Swiss football: punching above its weight or Europe’s punching bag?

This content was published on Jan 16, 2018 As the Swiss national team goes from strength to strength, we dig into the numbers to explore the struggles of the domestic league.

Ivanshvili and his wife outside a Georgian polling station in 2012

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Geneva ex-banker accused of massive fraud

This content was published on Jan 15, 2018 The 54-year-old French citizen is accused of fraud and forgery in at least 12 cases, including the oil billionaire and former prime minister of Georgia, Bidzina Ivanishvili, as well as a former Russian senator, Vitaly Malkin. The trial is due to last ten days. It took the justice authorities more than 40 meetings to untangle…

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Organ donations increasing but still insufficient

This content was published on Jan 15, 2018 The Federal Health OfficeExternal link said 145 people had agreed to provide one or several organs upon their death. In addition, 137 live donors had given a kidney or part of their liver. In total, 440 patients were able to benefit in 2017, according to a statement published on Monday. Officials say the increase is…

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The vultures are back

This content was published on Jan 15, 2018 Members of the Bearded Vulture Foundation have taken three young birds up the Hengliboden mountain in Melchsee-Frutt, Obwalden, and will watch over and feed them until they can fly. The foundation has resettled 38 bearded vultures in Switzerland since 1991. The birds have been breeding in cantons Graubünden and Valais since 2007. Bearded vultures prefer…

Government minister calls for media quality and diversity

This content was published on Jan 15, 2018 In a wide-ranging interviewExternal link on Monday with the Watson news platform and several regional newspapers, Leuthard said a dominant role for a single player in the media sector was not desirable. “It must be the goal to secure diversity and quality in the media for democratic reasons,” she said. Leuthard also expressed concern about…

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Swiss mountains claim three lives over the weekend

This content was published on Jan 14, 2018 A 38-year-old Swiss man and a 28-year-old German died while out snowshoe hiking at a peak in canton St Gallen in the east of Switzerland. A group of skiers saw them fall some 400 metres and alerted the air rescue service, reported cantonal police. In canton Glarus, in central Switzerland, a 57-year-old ski tourer plummeted…

Protesters carry a sign reading kill Trump with his own weapons

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WEF demos: police demand more cash to control protests

This content was published on Jan 14, 2018 A protest of well over 1,000 people in the Swiss capital, Bern, on Saturday passed peacefully, but was notable for banners sporting aggressive messages, such as “Kill Trump With His Own Weapons!”. Several other demonstrations are planned in the next days, swelled by anti-Trump protesters. “The government must look into the question of sharing the…

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Child patients given outdated cancer drugs

This content was published on Jan 14, 2018 The company Alkopharma distributed 2,119 bottles of Thiotepa in Switzerland, costing more than CHF207,500 ($214,000), and a further 98,820 bottles in France for more than €3.2 million euros. More than half were used to treat patients, many of them children, reports the SonntagsZeitung and Le Matin Dimanche. The company falsified the expiry dates of the…

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