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Che photographer Burri dies aged 81 Swiss photographer Rene Burri, celebrated for his portraits of Che Guevara and Pablo Picasso, died Monday in Zurich aged 81.
21 октября 2014
Emir Baigazins Wounded Angel receives Hubert Bals Fund Emir Baigazin, the Kazakh director of Harmony Lessons, has been chosen one of the 11 winners of the Hubert Bals Fund.
17 октября 2014
Swiss voters reject shift to state-run health insurance Swiss voters rejected a plan to ditch the country's all-private health insurance system and create a state-run scheme, exit polls showed.
29 сентября 2014
Roche breast cancer drug 'helps patients live longer': study A drug developed by Swiss giant Roche to treat an aggressive form of breast cancer has been shown to extend patients' lives by almost 16 months.
29 сентября 2014
Illustration ©tengrinews Kazakhstan Majilis ratifies migrant readmission agreement with Switzerland Kazakhstan's Majilis has approved the draft law ratifying the agreement between Kazakhstan and Switzerland on readmission of persons residing without authorization.
23 сентября 2014
©REUTERS Physicists achieve longer distance quantum teleportation Physicists in Switzerland said they had succeeded in teleporting the quantum state of a photon to a crystal.
22 сентября 2014
Photo © tengrinews Children Protection Committee unveils adoption statistic in Kazakhstan 66 Kazakhstani children have been adopted by foreigners since last year.
15 сентября 2014
Wingsuit daredevils risking their lives on film Playing Icarus as they leap off sheer cliffs, thrill-seekers dressed like flamboyant bats have become common sight in the Alps.
29 августа 2014
©Reuters/Tyrone Siu 'Suicide tourism' to Switzerland doubled: study A total of 172 "suicide tourists" travelled to Switzerland in 2012, to die with medical assistance -- a practice prohibited in many countries.
21 августа 2014
©Reuters/Denis Balibouse Switzerland tops innovation rankings for fourth year Switzerland has claimed the top spot on the Global Innovation Index for the fourth-straight year while Sub-Saharan Africa "posted significant regional improvement".
19 июля 2014
Alexander Merkel. Photo courtesy of www1.skysports.com Skibbe names Kazakhstani born Alexander Merkel most talented German football player Michael Skibbe, manager of Swiss Grasshoppers FC, named Kazakhstani born Alexander Merkel one of the most talented football players of Germany.
18 июля 2014
©Reuters/Alexander F. Yuan Landmark Swiss-China free-trade deal comes into force A watershed free-trade deal between China and Switzerland came into force on Tuesday, the first such accord between the Asian giant and a mainland European economy.
02 июля 2014
Photo courtesy of  viktor-khrapunov.com Kazakhstan demands Khrapunov extradition from Switzerland Kazakhstan has requested extradition of a former Akim (Mayor) of Almaty city Victor Khrapunov.
16 июня 2014
©Reuters/Carlos Barria Several injured as construction crane topples in Swiss town A construction crane toppled late Wednesday in a Swiss town, injuring several people, two of them critically, police and media reports said.
12 июня 2014
©Reuters/Danish Siddiqui Japan prosecutors arrest ex-Novartis employee over data Prosecutors on Wednesday arrested a former employee of the Japanese unit of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis for allegedly manipulating research data to exaggerate the benefits of a popular blood-pressure drug.
11 июня 2014
Swiss sentence Guatemalan ex-police chief to life over prisoner killings Guatemala's former police chief Erwin Sperisen on Friday received a life sentence in Switzerland for seven murders committed in the Central American country.
09 июня 2014
Accor buys 97 hotels in Europe for 900 mn euros Hotel group Accor on Tuesday announced the purchase of 97 hotels in Europe through its HotelInvest business for a total of 900 million euros ($1 billion).
28 мая 2014
©REUTERS $138 billion offshored from Kazakhstan At a meeting of the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs of Kazakhstan it was announced that according to international estimates the money offshored from Kazakhstan amounts to $138 billion.
23 мая 2014
Credit Suisse guilty on US felony charge, pays $2.6 bn Credit Suisse pleaded guilty and was fined $2.6 billion Monday for helping Americans avoid taxes, the first time in 20 years a major bank has been punished on US criminal charges.
20 мая 2014
Swiss vote to ban paedophiles from working with kids Switzerland on Sunday overwhelmingly voted for a harsher stance against convicted paedophiles by banning them from working with children for life.
19 мая 2014

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