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This arrangement, totalling $8 billion, was concluded with the governments of Germany, Switzerland, France and Austria, as well as other private corporations...
...legalize assisted suicide in France; 88% favor such a move. It's legal in Switzerland, and in certain cases in Belgium and the Netherlands. - By Bruce Crumley Scandalous BELGIUM European Commission President Romano Prodi fended off calls for high-level resignations over the misuse of funds by Eurostat, the E.U.'s statistical office. But his defiant stand did little to convince doubters of the Commission's ability to account cleanly for its €94 billion annual budget. Try Again SWEDEN Police investigating the stabbing murder of Foreign Minister Anna Lindh released suspect Per Olof Svensson and cleared him of involvement...
...profile in the borderlands following their 2001 rout from Afghanistan, al-Qaeda and Taliban remnants are standing tall again. Besides taking potshots at Americans, they are also going after perceived local enemies. So far this year, 11 people suspected of informing on al-Qaeda have been murdered in the Switzerland-size, semiautonomous tribal land. An agent of Pakistan's much feared secret intelligence agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, was shot in March as he rode his motorcycle in daylight. A tribal chief's son sitting outside his shop in the marketplace of Wana was mowed down in July...
...According to a new study in Switzerland, there was a 60% jump in heart attacks in the country during last year's soccer World Cup?and the Swiss team didn't even play
...Lang Lang, 21, China. Lang Lang plays table football the same way he plays piano: irrepressibly. He spins his players upside down in absurdly impossible acrobatics, the ball shoots everywhere, occasionally leaving the table altogether and hitting passers-by on the head. At this year's Verbier Festival in Switzerland, where audiences and performers mingle in the local bars, I found myself facing off against the Chinese boy wonder's unique brand of uncompromising passion. For the record, he lost. Then again, only two hours before, he'd played the most exciting performance of Rachmaninoff's famously challenging Piano Concerto...