News: Switzerland

We have started to collect the most important news related to Switzerland in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.

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Switzerland: news

Roche seals $47bn Genentech deal

Thursday, March 12th 2009, 10:11
related countries: United States
related places: Roche

Swiss drugs company Roche agrees to merge with Genentech, buying the remaining shares in the US firm for $46.8bn.
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Swiss 'gigolo' admits blackmail

Monday, March 9th 2009, 10:31
related countries: Germany

A Swiss man pleads guilty to blackmailing Germany's richest woman, BMW heiress Susanne Klatten, at a trial in Munich.
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Pair die together at Swiss clinic

Thursday, March 5th 2009, 22:31
related countries: United Kingdom

An elderly British couple with terminal cancer die together at a Swiss euthanasia clinic.
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UK snowboarder is killed in Alps

Tuesday, March 3rd 2009, 21:01
related countries: United Kingdom

A 29-year-old man entrepreneur plunges to his death in the Swiss Alps, as a rescue operation is aided by the Twitter website.
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UK snowboarder is killed in Alps

Tuesday, March 3rd 2009, 21:01
related countries: United Kingdom

A 29-year-old entrepreneur plunges 60 feet to his death in the Swiss Alps, as a rescue operation is aided by the Twitter website.
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UBS appoints new chief executive

Thursday, February 26th 2009, 7:56

Swiss banking giant UBS appoints the former head of Credit Suisse, Oswald Gruebel, as its new chief executive.
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Secrecy storm

Friday, February 20th 2009, 15:21

UBS deal puts Swiss banking privacy in jeopardy
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Brazilian woman 'invented attack'

Thursday, February 19th 2009, 17:03
related countries: Botswana
related places: Zurich

A Brazilian woman has admitted faking an attack by Swiss skinheads, according to prosecutors in Zurich.
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Doubts over Swiss attack claims

Friday, February 13th 2009, 16:36
related countries: Botswana
related places: Zurich

A Brazilian woman who said she miscarried twins after an alleged racist attack in Zurich was not pregnant, investigators say.
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Veteran crooner Aznavour to become Armenian envoy

Friday, February 13th 2009, 13:50
related countries: Armenia, France

The French singer, Charles Aznavour, agrees to become ambassador to Switzerland for his ancestral homeland of Armenia.
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Swiss 'race' attack stuns Brazil

Thursday, February 12th 2009, 21:53
related countries: Botswana, Brazil
related places: Zurich

Brazil summons the Swiss envoy over an alleged skinhead attack in Zurich on a pregnant Brazilian woman.
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Swiss to return 'Baby Doc' assets

Thursday, February 12th 2009, 20:21
related countries: Haiti
related places: Jean

Switzerland says it will return the assets of former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier for use on development projects.
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Bad debts weigh on Credit Suisse

Wednesday, February 11th 2009, 9:42

Credit Suisse reports an annual loss of 8.2bn Swiss francs ($7bn), its worst to date, due to a fall in business and bad debt.
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Swiss to extend EU worker access

Sunday, February 8th 2009, 14:17
related countries: Bulgaria, Romania

The Swiss vote to extend access to workers from two new European Union member states, Romania and Bulgaria.
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Swiss votes on EU worker rights

Sunday, February 8th 2009, 11:43

Switzerland votes on whether to continue to allow in EU workers, and whether to extend that right to Romanians and Bulgarians.
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Swiss authorities to take action over rise in naked ramblers

Friday, January 30th 2009, 12:55

A local Swiss government plans to take action against a sudden and apparently unwelcome phenomenon - naked hikers.
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Davos starts in very gloomy mood

Wednesday, January 28th 2009, 9:23

Global leaders gathering for the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland are in gloomy mood over the economic outlook.
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Trial for Swiss BMW 'blackmailer'

Wednesday, January 21st 2009, 16:34
related countries: Germany
related places: March

A Swiss man accused of blackmailing Germany's richest woman will stand trial in March, a court says.
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Bush shoe man 'not after asylum'

Monday, January 19th 2009, 13:20
related countries: Iraq

The brother of the Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at George W Bush tells the BBC he is not seeking asylum in Switzerland.
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Bush shoe man in Swiss asylum bid

Monday, January 19th 2009, 5:23
related countries: Iraq

The Iraqi who hurled his shoes at George W Bush is seeking asylum in Switzerland, a Swiss newspaper reports.
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Federer cruises to Kooyong title

Saturday, January 17th 2009, 12:23
related countries: Aruba

Roger Federer warms up for the Australian Open by thrashing fellow Swiss Stanislas Wawrinka to win the Kooyong Classic.
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Aid workers taken in Philippines

Thursday, January 15th 2009, 6:54
related countries: Italy, Philippines

Three aid workers, including an Italian and a Swiss national, are kidnapped in southern Philippines, says the Philippine Red Cross.
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Aborigines win battle over mine

Wednesday, December 17th 2008, 7:32
related countries: Australia

Aborigines from Australia's Northern Territory win a court battle to stop mining giant Xstrata expanding a zinc mine.
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Scrapping borders

Friday, December 12th 2008, 8:19

Switzerland joins Europe's border-free Schengen zone
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Swiss inventor travels round the world by the power of the sun

Friday, December 5th 2008, 0:13

Swiss adventurer Louis Palmer takes his solar-powered car to the UN climate change talks after a round-the-world trip.
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Credit Suisse to cut 5,300 jobs

Thursday, December 4th 2008, 7:38

Troubled Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse says it is shedding another 5,300 jobs from its workforce.
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Swiss approve prescription heroin

Sunday, November 30th 2008, 23:49

Swiss voters overwhelmingly back a radical health policy that offers prescription heroin to addicts on a permanent basis.
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Heroin treatment

Saturday, November 29th 2008, 9:58

Radical Swiss state supply policy goes to the vote
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Seething anger

Saturday, November 22nd 2008, 11:37

Why the Swiss want bank bosses fed to crocodiles
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Deep sea submarine pioneer Jacques Piccard dies

Saturday, November 1st 2008, 23:00

Swiss-based explorer Jacques Piccard, part of the deepest submarine dive in history, dies, aged 86.
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German blacklist call riles Swiss

Thursday, October 23rd 2008, 4:23
related countries: Germany

The Swiss government reacts angrily after Germany suggests the nation should be put on a blacklist of tax havens.
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Switzerland injects cash into UBS

Thursday, October 16th 2008, 7:13

The Swiss government helps UBS raise billions of dollars of fresh capital and takes on the bank's toxic assets.
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Libya 'to pull Swiss bank assets'

Friday, October 10th 2008, 8:58
related countries: Libya

Libya is to withdraw an estimated $7m of assets from Swiss banks in a row over the arrest of the Libyan leader's son.
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