The Bermuda Bicycle Association announced that Kaden Hopkins, Conor White, and Nic Narraway will represent Bermuda at the 2024 UCI Road World Championships in Switzerland later this month. A spokesperson said, “The Bermuda Bicycle Association [BBA] is proud to announce the athletes who will represent Bermuda at the 2024 UCI Road World Championships in Zurich, Switzerland, this...
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Swiss Watch Exports Rise Even as Buyers Remain Cautious
Swiss watch exports continued to grow in August amid increased demand in the US and Japan, but overall, buyers are being more careful about spending due to global economic challenges. Shipments of timepieces advanced 7% to CHF 1.95 billion ($2.31 billion) for the month, the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry reported Thursday. The rise...
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Parliament approves an extra CHF4 billion for the Swiss army
4 billion more for the army, offset by other items Keystone-SDA Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector English (US) English (British) Generated with artificial intelligence. The army will have CHF4 billion more for the years 2025 to 2028. On Thursday, the House of Representatives approved the increase requested by the Senate....
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Watch Exports Return to Growth in August — in Value, Not Units
PARIS — There was a silver lining for Swiss watchmakers in August as export figures showed signs of a rebound. Exports were up 6.9 percent in value, standing at 1.95 billion Swiss francs, or $2.31 billion, while falling in volume, with 125,000 fewer watches leaving the country, the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry said...
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Swiss Government Sees Sharp Drop in Inflation Rate Next Year
(Bloomberg) — Switzerland’s government slashed its inflation forecasts, a move in line with expectations that the central bank will cut interest rates again when officials meet next week. Consumer prices will grow at an annual 1.2% in 2024 and 0.7% in the following year, the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs said on Thursday. That’s down...
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EXCLUSIVE: Parents Ask Swiss Supreme Court To Block Daughter’s Gender Transition
A father and mother are appealing to Switzerland’s highest court as they fight to protect their teenaged daughter from an attempted gender transition. “Our hope lies now with the Swiss Federal Supreme Court,” the father, who asked to remain anonymous in order to protect his family’s privacy, told The Daily Wire on Wednesday. “We just...
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Switzerland to Host Ukraine Mine Action Conference in Lausanne in October
The Swiss government formally announced it was to host an international “Ukraine Mine Action Conference (UMAC2024)” in cooperation with Ukraine at the EHL Hospitality Business School in Lausanne, on Oct 17 and 18. The conference aims to address the wide scale contamination from explosive remnants of war (ERW) focusing on the critical role that humanitarian...
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Swiss researchers discover why our organs age
Swiss researchers want to slow down ageing processes Keystone-SDA Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector English (US) English (British) Generated with artificial intelligence. Swiss researchers have discovered why certain organs age faster than others. The results were published on Tuesday in the scientific journal Cell. The researchers hope to use their...
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Crans-Montana, Switzerland, Officially Confirmed as Host of the 2027 FIS Alpine World Championships – SnowBrains
Crans-Montana will host the 2027 World Championships. | Image: Swiss Ski Website The International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) announced last week that the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana will host the 2027 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships. The hosting contract between the local organizing committee (LOC), the municipalities, Swiss-Ski, and FIS was signed on September...
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Swiss supercomputer Alps comes online, aimed at complex AI development
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) has unveiled Alps, a supercomputer it claims is at least the sixth most powerful supercomputer in the world. Alps has been developed to meet scientific research’s extreme data and computing requirements and will, says CSCS, position Switzerland as the world’s leading hub for the development and implementation of transparent...
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Father of ex-Miss Switzerland finalist ‘pureed’ by husband found her head in bin bag
The murder of a former Miss Switzerland finalist has shaken the world. Kristina Joksimovic was strangled, dismembered and then “pureed” in a blender allegedly by her husband at their Basel home. Kristina’s father has now spoken up and revealed that he found his daughter’s decapitated head in a bin bag in her laundry room. This,...
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Father of Miss Switzerland finalist found her decapitated head in bin bag
For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails The father of a murdered Miss Switzerland finalist discovered her decapitated head in a bin bag in her laundry room,...