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We’re going to get stronger air passenger rights, after the European Parliament voted for a major tightening of the rules.

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Eight of Geneva's eleven paddling pools are now closed as the city battles bacterial contamination during the heatwave.

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Swiss international Johan Manzambi is joining Aston Villa in what looks set to be SC Freiburg's biggest sale ever.

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A hidden stretch of Lake Geneva shoreline has become the focus of a long-running battle over public nudity.

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A hidden stretch of Lake Geneva shoreline has become the focus of a long-running battle over public nudity.

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A fire tore through part of Geneva's Jardin Anglais on Saturday morning, gutting several trees and damaging a lakeside building used by the Mouettes ferry service.

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The Swiss team's manager, Murat Yakin has called Breel Embolo's red card 'unacceptable', as anger builds over the refereeing of Switzerland's World Cup quarter-final loss to Argentina.

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Heat now kills more people in Switzerland than road accidents.

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Geneva cantonal minister Carole-Anne Kast says Bern gave in too easily to France over who pays for last month's G7 summit in Évian.

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Hundreds of football fans packed Geneva's La Praille shopping centre yesterday to meet Swiss star Xherdan Shaqiri.

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Geneva is banning all fires in forests and near woodland as the risk of wildfires rises.

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A Swiss-made rival to Twint has officially launched.

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A five-year-old girl was accidentally left alone on a train in canton Fribourg after missing her stop on the way to school.

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Football fever is emptying the shelves.

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More than 1,300 aid workers, consultants and UN staff have been laid off in Geneva since the start of 2025, as US funding cuts and the UN80 reform ripple through International Geneva.

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MeteoSuisse has issued a level-three heatwave warning for most of French-speaking areas from today, with the new wave now set to run until Sunday.

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Switzerland is through to the World Cup quarter finals after beating Colombia in a penalty shoot out.

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Swiss residential property has become more expensive again, with apartment asking prices up 4.5% over the year and single-family homes up 3.1%.

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Switzerland is emerging as one of the countries hardest hit by the June heatwave.

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The Jassbach military barracks in the canton of Bern has been overflown at night by drones in what looks like an espionage attempt.

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