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More cancer patients but higher survival rates

This content was published on Mar 21, 2016 The increases are primarily due to demographic changes. There are increasing numbers of old people in the population, and old people tend to have more chronic diseases, said Pascale Strupler, director of the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, at a press conference on Monday. The good news: the risk of dying from cancer decreased…

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Crime in Switzerland lowest since 2009

This content was published on Mar 21, 2016 According to figures released by Federal Statistical Office on Monday, just over 77,000 crimes were committed on Swiss soil. This is the lowest number since 2009 and includes both Swiss and foreign law breakers. Among foreign perpetrators of crimes, the most prolific overall were Italians followed by the Portuguese who were also responsible for the…

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Gazprom trial gets underway after delay

This content was published on Mar 21, 2016 The corruption trial of four people linked to Russian energy giant Gazprom gets underway in Switzerland after a four-month translation dispute.

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Actors, cow horns, school costs and halal

This content was published on Mar 20, 2016 Here are the stories we will be watching the week of March 21.

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Islamic State verdicts mark ‘turning point’

This content was published on Mar 19, 2016 Leading Swiss papers have welcomed the Federal Criminal Court’s ‘exemplary’ convictions of foreign Islamist militants, accused of planning a terror attack in Switzerland as part of the Islamic State group.

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‘This bikini made me into a success’

This content was published on Mar 19, 2016 Swiss film star Ursula Andress, who has turned 80, is well aware of how a small piece of white cotton changed her life.

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Camera in one hand, child in another: Vivian Maier

This content was published on Mar 18, 2016 Vivian Maier lived in Chicago for most of her life, although she was a French citizen. She was born in New York in 1926 to a French mother and Austrian father. After spending some of the first part of her life in France, she worked as a nanny in the United States. She would take…

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Heidi: the greatest Swiss film hit ever?

This content was published on Mar 18, 2016 With audiences of half a million in Switzerland and 2.4 million worldwide, Alain Gsponer’s remake of Heidi has been hailed as the most successful film in the history of Swiss cinema. This claim is hard to verify, due to the lack of statistics. Anyway, what makes a Swiss film?

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Fondue – also a dish in the tropics

This content was published on Mar 18, 2016

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Swiss unfreeze more millions in Petrobras affair

This content was published on Mar 17, 2016 Switzerland is to unblock a further $70 million (CHF67 million) of assets frozen in the Petrobras price-fixing scandal and return them to Brazil.

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