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updated: Sat Jun 28, 2008 04:28 am

Switzerland News

News on Switzerland continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.

1 hr ago | International Herald Tribune

Oil rises to $142 for the first time

LONDON : Crude oil rose to a record above $142 a barrel in New York on Friday and gold advanced as falling stock markets spurred investment in commodities.

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Thu Jun 26, 2008

Groong Armenian News Network

Swiss Foreign Minister Arriving In Armenia June 26

From : Sebouh Z Tashjian Date : Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:06:54 +0500 SWISS FOREIGN MINISTER ARRIVING IN ARMENIA JUNE 26 PanARMENIAN.Net 25.06.2008 Head Switzerland's Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Ms.

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Tue Jun 24, 2008

Inter Press Service

SWITZERLAND: No Takers for Ex-Dictator's Money

A Swiss court has ordered eight million Swiss francs to be unblocked in favour of the heirs of Mobutu Sese Seko, the former dictator of Zaire.

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Mon Jun 23, 2008

Bloomberg

Nymex Oil Futures Price Averaged Over 200 Days Exceeds $100 for First Time

Oil prices averaged over 200 days surpassed $100 a barrel for the first time on the New York Mercantile Exchange, an indication of the durability of a rally threatening global economic growth.

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Sat Jun 21, 2008

Bloomberg.com - Asia

Xstrata Increases Indophil Bid to Match Rival's $515 Million Buyout Offer

Xstrata Plc , the world's fourth- largest copper producer, will raise its hostile cash offer for Indophil Resources NL to match an A$540 million management buyout bid.

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Fri Jun 20, 2008

Dayton Daily News

Handel with care: Zurich `Rinaldo' set in airport

More... TV Online Handel with care: Zurich `Rinaldo' set in airport By RONALD BLUM ZURICH, Switzerland - The new jet-set production of Handel's "Rinaldo" at the Zurich Opera left a large segment of the audience ...

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Thu Jun 19, 2008

ContactMusic.com

Anjelica Huston - Huston to Be Honoured at Locarno

Caption: Anjelica Huston TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World gala dinner New York City, USA - 08.05.08.... Hollywood star ANJELICA HUSTON will be honoured at this year's Locarno Film Festival in ...

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Chicago Tribune

Swiss to return $74 million to Mexico

BERN, Switzerland - Swiss authorities will hand over $74 million to the Mexican government from bank accounts linked to the brother of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, the Justice Ministry ...

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Wed Jun 18, 2008

Gorkhapatra Sansthan

Italians count on history

ZURICH, Switzerland, June 12: Italy coach Roberto Donadoni is counting on history repeating itself as his embattled squad fight for Euro 2008 survival against Romania here on Friday.

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Huliq.com

Tracking Prions

Magnetic resonance studies find clear differences between the structures of infectious and non-infectious prions Infectious proteins known as prions have been identified as the cause of "mad cow" disease .

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Tue Jun 17, 2008

PC World

United Connects IPods, IPhones on Int'l Flights

United Airlines on Monday announced plans to offer a new in-flight entertainment system on some of its aircraft that will enable iPod and iPhone users to connect their devices.

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Wed Jun 11, 2008

The Epoch Times

Sydney again Cracks Top 10 of World's Best Cities

Sydney, Australia. Rated as 10th place in the Mercer's Worldwide Quality of Living Survey 2008.

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Ananova

MS sufferer wins suicide challenge

A multiple sclerosis sufferer has won permission to bring a High Court challenge to clarify the law on assisted suicide.

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Kazinform

Switzerland plans first nuclear power station in 20 years

GENEVA. June 11. KAZINFORM A Swiss energy enterprise plans to build the country's first nuclear power station in over 20 years, in a bid to secure energy supplies over the coming decades.

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Tue Jun 10, 2008

DesignLines

Signal generator delivers low phase noise

Zurich, Switzerland-AnaPico has released the APSIN3000 low-noise CW signal generator line.

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Mon Jun 09, 2008

CRN

Ballmer Egg Incident Celebrated In Online Game

BLOGS The Channel Wire June 03, 2008 It has been said that the real measure of a meaningful news event is when someone makes an online game that pokes fun at what happened.

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Sat Jun 07, 2008

CRN

Stack 'Em Up: IBM Demos New Way to Cool Chips

Just blocks from the bright lights of Times Square, Everything Channel honored 16 standout solution providers at the 2008 VARBusiness 500 Awards.

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Fri Jun 06, 2008

Cycling News

Full results, report & photos

Thomas Dietsch and Martin Kraler won the 120km fourth stage from Oberhof to Bad Steben with a time of 4:22:45 and took over the general classification lead.

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Thu Jun 05, 2008

SiliconValley.com

Google to build at NASA Ames

The Internet giant worked with a psychologist and design team to interview all 350 employees and incorporated their ideas into a new workspace _ yet insisted the new design should not cost more than an ordinary ...

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Wed Jun 04, 2008

VMSD

Bloomingdale's Named Best in Class

Bloomingdale's, the New York-based division of Macy's Inc. was named "Department Store of the Year" at the first annual Global Department Store Summit in London.

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