The Swiss army battles its latest foe: bedbugs in dorms
GENEVA (AP) – The Swiss army is working hard to fend off its latest foe: bedbugs. The defense department said Monday that a parents’ day event planned for July 16 is being cancelled because bedbugs...
View ArticleBodies of couple missing since 1942 likely found in glacier
The daughter of a couple who disappeared in the Swiss Alps more than 70 years ago has said the discovery of two bodies emerging from a melting glacier has brought her a “deep sense of calm” after so...
View ArticleHunt is on for chainsaw attacker who wounded 5 in Swiss city
(CBS NEWS) — Police swarmed a town in northern Switzerland on Monday and a manhunt was underway for a man who attacked and wounded five people with a chainsaw. Police said they had identified the...
View ArticleSnow, avalanche risks strand 13,000 tourists in Swiss resort
GENEVA (AP) — Unusually heavy snowfall and a high risk of Alpine avalanches stranded some 13,000 tourists Tuesday in the Swiss resort of Zermatt at the base of the famed Matterhorn mountain. With...
View ArticleTrump in Switzerland to play salesman at economic summit
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — President Donald Trump arrived in Switzerland on Thursday, ready to play salesman during his debut appearance at an annual economic summit in the Swiss Alps and argue that...
View ArticleChocolate ‘snow’ dusts Swiss town after malfunction at Lindt factory
(CBS News) — Switzerland is known for many things — including its chocolate — but one town got an extra dose of its signature sweet treat on Friday following a malfunction at a Lindt chocolate...
View ArticleUK and 4 nations to fast-track modified COVID-19 vaccines
LONDON (AP) — Regulators in the U.K. and four other countries plan to fast-track the development of modified COVID-19 vaccines to ensure drugmakers are able to move swiftly in targeting emerging...
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