The “Sarco” suicide capsule, which has never been used before, is designed to allow a person inside to push a button that injects nitrogen gas into the sealed chamber. The person is then supposed to fall asleep and die of suffocation in a few minutes. Prosecutors in Schaffhausen canton were informed by a law firm...
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Swiss police detain several people in connection with suspected death in a ‘suicide capsule’
GENEVA (AP) — Police in northern Switzerland said Tuesday that several people have been detained and a criminal case opened in connection with the suspected death of a person in a “suicide capsule.” The “Sarco” capsule, which has never been used before, is presumably designed to allow a person sitting in a reclining seat inside...
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8 best Switzerland scholarships for international students
Everything in Switzerland is expensive. But don’t let that deter you from from thinking you can’t ever afford to study here. Switzerland is home to some of the top universities in the world and is ranked in the top 100. ETH Zurich, one of the world’s leading universities in science and technology, is ranked #7...
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Several detained after American’s ‘suicide capsule’ death in Switzerland: Police
Several detained after American’s ‘suicide capsule’ death in Switzerland: Police | WKHM-AM – Jackson, MI 647564084 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 28f4faea78c7b9659ba2544457fbfbb9868baff8 1
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Switzerland to host world’s largest redox flow storage project
Flexbase plans to build a 500 MW redox flow storage project in Laufenburg in early 2025. September 23, 2024 Marian Willuhn From ESS News A redox flow battery energy storage facility with an output of 500 MW will be built in Switzerland. The development was announced by the company Flexbase, which said the project is...
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International Oscar Race: ‘Reinas,’ Prizewinner at Berlin and Locarno, Selected by Switzerland
Swiss-Peruvian filmmaker Klaudia Reynicke‘s family drama “Reinas” has been submitted as Switzerland’s entry in the international feature film category of the Academy Awards. The Spanish-language film had its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival, won best film in Berlinale’s Generation Kplus section, and took the audience award at Locarno. The film is set in Peru...
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Swiss voters reject environment, pensions reforms: official results
Swiss voters rejected proposals to bolster biodiversity protections as well as a pensions reform in twin referendums on Sunday, according to projected results. Swiss voters reject environment, pensions reforms: official results Switzerland may be associated with pristine natural landscapes, but environmentalists have sounded the alarm over its endangered ecosystems and were urging voters to back...
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Swiss voters reject biodiversity proposal in blow to conservation campaigners
Voters in Switzerland have rejected a proposal to make authorities do more to protect natural habitats from pollution and development, preliminary results of a referendum have showed. The biodiversity initiative, which the Swiss government and parliament had already rebuffed, envisaged changing the law to set aside more land for conservation beyond areas that were already...
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Birds, bees and ballots: Swiss voters to decide on plan to bolster country’s fragile biodiversity
GENEVA (AP) — Switzerland, known for natural beauty like pristine lakes and majestic Alpine peaks, ranks among the world’s richest countries whose plant and animal life is under the greatest threat. Environmentalists were seeking better protections for the country’s biodiversity in a nationwide vote that culminated Sunday. The Swiss public broadcaster SSR, citing exit polls...
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Swiss vote on pensions and environment protections – Times of India
GENEVA: Switzerland may be associated with pristine natural landscapes, but environmentalists sounding the alarm over its endangered ecosystems are urging voters to back broader biodiversity protections in a referendum on Sunday.That proposal appears set to fail, according to opinion polls, while the Swiss are also set to reject a planned reform of the financing of...
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‘Too much spectacle in Zürich?’ – Elite time trials kick off loaded week at Road World Championships
On the eve of the 2024 UCI Road World Championships, Zürich’s newspaper of record, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, detected a certain ambivalence among inhabitants towards the event after a summer when the city had already ground to a halt for a series of concerts and festivals. “Street Parade, Taylor Swift, Cycling World Championships – is...
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ANALYSIS – Stefan Küng: Switzerland’s Best Hope for World Championship Glory?
Kung’s World Championship Journey: Close but No Rainbow Jersey Stefan Kung hasn’t always had the best of luck at the World Championships. Finishes of 3rd in 2020 and 2nd in 2022 saw him come agonizingly close to the coveted rainbow jersey, but not quite close enough. In 2020, Küng finished just 30 seconds behind...