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Federer wins sixth Australian Open and 20th Grand Slam title. Melbourne
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Swiss cruise ship collides with motorway bridge in Germany |
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Federer overwhelms Cilic to clinch historic eighth Wimbledon title. London
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Rafael Nadal beats Stan Wawrinka to win the tournament for a 10th time. Paris
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French Open: Wawrinka battles to final, will play Nadal |
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Roger Federer beats Rafael Nadal to win 18th Grand Slam title |
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FIFA gives go-ahead for expanded World Cup |
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Stan Wawrinka upsets Novak Djokovic for men's title |
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Syrian conflict: US and Russia agree peace moves. Geneva
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Swiss train attacker and one victim dead
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Knifeman sets fire to Swiss train |
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Federer to end his 2016 season |
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Russia not given blanket Games ban by IOC |
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Russia fails to overturn athlete ban for next month's Games 
Map of Avenue de Beaumont 2 1012 Lausanne Switzerland| Russian track and field athletes will remain banned from the Olympics following claims the country ran a state-sponsored doping program | |
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Switzerland 'rejects basic income', poll projections suggest |
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World's longest and deepest rail tunnel opens
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Europa League final: Sevilla defeats Liverpool in Basel |
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Aleppo: Kerry begins new bid to stop fighting |
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Gianni Infantino crowned new FIFA president
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Sides trade blame over talks' suspension. Geneva
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'World's best chef' Benoit Violier dies aged 44 |
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Key Syrian opposition group arrive for Geneva talks |
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Davos: Chief executives ‘more pessimistic’ about growth |
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Switzerland: 2 foreigners killed in Alps avalanche |
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FIFA banned Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini Ethics Committee ruled that both the president and his UEFA counterpart had broken Code of Ethics relating to conflicts of interest, breach of loyalty and gifts
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MSF condemns Kunduz air strikes |
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Volkswagen models sale halted in Switzerland |
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Sepp Blatter faces Swiss criminal investigation Map of Fifa Switzerland Swiss prosecutors are investigating Sepp Blatter, the head of football's world governing body Fifa, on suspicion of criminal mismanagement
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Swiss planes collide at Dittingen airshow |
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FIFA to suspend bidding for 2026 World Cup amid scandal |
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Wawrinka stuns Novak Djokovic to win French Open |
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Fifa crisis: Jack Warner 'to reveal all' |
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Sepp Blatter given ovation by staff |
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Fifa's Sepp Blatter 'under investigation in US' |
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Sepp Blatter to quit as president amid corruption scandal Blatter says he will resign as president of football's governing body Fifa amid a corruption scandal
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Sepp Blatter elected to 5th term as president of FIFA Prince Ali bin Hussein withdraws his candidacy before a second round of voting could take place
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| May.27 |
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6 FIFA officials detained for extradition to U.S. Map of FIFA Zurich Switzerland Six FIFA officials are detained in Switzerland in relation to allegations of corruption between the 1990s and now
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FIFA suspends eleven people from involvement in football over the scandal
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Iran nuclear talks: 'Framework' deal agreed An outline agreement on the future shape of Iran's nuclear program has been reached after marathon talks with 6 major powers
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Swiss hostage flees in Philippines |
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Swiss 'reject immigration curbs' |
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WHO crisis team holds Ebola talks |
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Di Maria sends Argentina by Swiss, to quarters |
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Blatter still has burning desire to be FIFA's president. Sao Paulo
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Qatar World Cup: '$5m payments to officials' claim
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Deal struck to calm Ukraine crisis. Geneva
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Co-pilot hijacks plane, flies to Geneva, seeks asylum |
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New round of Syria peace talks begins in Geneva |
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Swiss narrowly back migration curbs| Swiss voters have narrowly backed a referendum proposal to bring back strict quotas for immigration from European Union countries | |
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Syria talks end in recriminations Geneva: The Syrian government and opposition have traded insults after a week-long peace conference in Geneva ended with no firm agreement
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Power transfer on Syria talks agenda |
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Syria talks: Civilians allowed to leave Homs old city |
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Wawrinka wins first Grand Slam |
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Gulf over Assad blights Syria talks |
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Syria defiant at conference; Kerry rules out al-Assad 'This is a Syrian conflict, and it will remain as such,' Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem told the peace conference
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Iran nuclear deal agreed at talks | Geneva: Iran and six world powers meeting in Geneva have reached a deal on Tehran's nuclear programme, foreign ministers say. Iran agrees to halt some of its work on uranium enrichment for six months. Negotiators from the UK, US, Ru... | |
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Pink diamond fetches record price |
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| Nov.9 |
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'No deal' at Iran nuclear talks. Geneva
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Arafat 'may have been poisoned'
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'Friends of Syria' meeting seeks to boost Geneva peace talks |
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Iran, P5+1 release first joint statement |
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Geneva hosts key Iran nuclear talks |
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US and Russia reach agreement in Syria weapons talks Geneva: Secretary of State Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov have reached an agreement on a framework for securing Syria's chemical weapons
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Tough Syria talks go into third day |
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Tense talks in bid for Syria deal |
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Six held over rape of Swiss woman |
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Three dead in Swiss factory shooting |
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Long hunt detects possible 'God particle' Geneva: Cern scientists reporting from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have claimed the discovery of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson
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World powers agree on steps for Syria |
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Crown Prince Nayef dies |
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IMF issues austerity cuts warning |
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UBS unauthorized trade loss now $2.3B
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UBS: 'Unauthorized' trades cost us $2 B Swiss banking giant UBS discovered that 'unauthorized trading by a trader in its investment bank' has cost it an estimated $2 billion
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Blatter remains FIFA president |
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FIFA suspends top executives FIFA has provisionally suspended executive committee members Mohamed Bin Hammam and Jack Warner after a meeting of ethics committee
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| May.28 |
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Bin Hammam pulls out of FIFA race |
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Blatter faces Fifa ethics inquiry |
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FIFA boss expects winter World Cup |
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Parcel bombs hit Rome embassies
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Swiss bank freezes Wikileaks cash |
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FIFA's World Cup be held in Qatar in 2022 |
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2018 FIFA World Cup will be held in Russia |
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Swiss complete world's longest rail tunnel
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Armed robbers raid Swiss casino
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Voters back ban on minarets| Swiss voters, more than 57% of voters and 22 out of 26 cantons, have supported a referendum proposal to ban the building of minarets. The government is saying the ban would harm Switzerland's image, particularly in the Muslim world.
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Armenia, Turkey sign historic agreement Turkey and Armenia are establishing diplomatic relations after nearly a century of animosity. The border has been closed since 1993
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Swiss fight Polanski appeal against arrest |
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Roman Polanski detained in Zurich Film director Roman Polanski has been taken into custody and faces extradition to the US for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977
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Federer win breaks Sampras record. London
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Federer claims historic French Open win |
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WHO raises pandemic alert Geneva: The World Health Organization raised its pandemic alert to 5, its second-highest level, warning of widespread human infection from the outbr...
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Walkout at Iran leader's speech. Geneva
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Switzerland eases banking secrecy
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'Big Bang' experiment starts well Scientists have hailed a successful switch-on for an enormous experiment which will recreate the conditions a few moments after the Bang
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Giant particle collider set to start |
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Federer beats Murray for 5th U.S. Open |
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Global trade deal falls apart. Geneva
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Fresh push in global trade talks |
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Iran describes nuke talks as 'constructive' |
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Federer wins 4th U.S. Open title |
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N. Korea agrees to close nuke facilities
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Federer wins historic fifth title |
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Swiss man jailed for Thai insult |
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WTO global trade talks collapse
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WHO: Human flu pandemic inevitable |
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Floods cause havoc across Europe. Romania
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Coach plunges into ravine, 12 died |
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World trade talks reach agreement |
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Grieving father held for killing |
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Unofficial Mideast initiative unveiled. Geneva
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Protesters rampage in Geneva |
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WHO: SARS death rate higher |
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WHO: SARS cases over 2,400 |
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Davos: Economy, Iraq top agenda
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Switzerland joins United Nations
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Abortion to legalise |
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Gunman kills 14 in assembly |
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Nurse admits killing 27 patients |
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Horace Saussure reaches summit of Mt. Blanc Southern France: Horace-Bénédict de Saussure was a Swiss aristocrat, physicist and Alpine traveller, often considered the founder of alpinism
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Michael Servetus burned at the stake Map of Champel Geneva Switzerland Geneva: a Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer, Renaissance humanist, and the first European to correctly describe the function of pulmonary circulation
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Huldreich Zwingli killed in battle Map of Kappel am Albis Switzerland Huldrych Zwingli or Ultricht Zwingli (1 January 1484 – 11 October 1531) was a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland
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