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Geneva (AFP) Sept 7, 2022 - Switzerland summoned China's ambassador following the publication last week of a long-awaited UN report listing a litany of serious abuses in China's Xinjiang region, the government said Wednesday.
Jun 26, 2026
Geneva (AFP) Sept 22, 2022 - The Swiss will vote Sunday on whether to ban intensive livestock farming in the largely rural country, which already has some of the world's strictest animal welfare laws.
Jun 26, 2026
Mels, Switzerland (AFP) Sept 22, 2019 - Dozens of people dressed in black went on a funeral march up a steep Swiss mountainside on Sunday to mark the disappearance of an Alpine glacier amid growing global alarm over climate change.
Jun 26, 2026
Aletsch Glacier, Switzerland (AFP) Sept 3, 2021 - After hiking for hours across the mountain and a vast expanse of white, Swiss glaciologist Matthias Huss crouches down near the middle of the massive glacier and checks the measurements.
Jun 26, 2026
Geneva (AFP) Sept 28, 2022 - Switzerland's glaciers lost six percent of their total volume this year due to a dry winter and repeated summer heatwaves, shattering previous ice melt records, a report revealed Wednesday.
Jun 26, 2026
Geneva (AFP) Sept 18, 2018 - The Swiss NGO Public Eye called Tuesday for an export ban on the pesticide Polo, produced by agriculture giant Syngenta, implicating it in the death of 20 Indian farmers last year.
Jun 26, 2026
Basel, Switzerland (AFP) Sept 3, 2009 - Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis said Thursday it had tested a new swine flu vaccine that may work after one dose while health chiefs hailed another one-dose drug developed in China.
Jun 26, 2026
Washington (AFP) Sept 7, 2010 - Infection from the 2009 A(H1N1) pandemic virus presented a lower risk of serious complications than other recent strains of the flu, according to US research presented Tuesday.
Jun 26, 2026
Kathmandu (AFP) Sept 8, 2009 - The global swine flu pandemic will expose the failure of the international community to invest in health protection in poor countries, the world's top health official warned here Tuesday.
Jun 26, 2026
Geneva (AFP) Sept 18, 2009 - Production of swine flu vaccines will fall substantially short of the amount needed to protect the global population, the World Health Organisation warned Friday as the pandemic death toll rose.
Jun 26, 2026
Stockholm (AFP) Sept 21, 2012 - A swine flu vaccine used in 2009-10 is linked to a higher risk of the sleeping disorder narcolepsy in children and teens in Sweden and Finland, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said Friday.
Jun 26, 2026
Beijing (AFP) Sept 8, 2009 - China's health minister said Tuesday the swine flu situation in the world's most populous nation was grim, as the number of cases surged rapidly at the start of the school year, with winter on the way.
Jun 26, 2026
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 20, 2009 - Top of the agenda for the World Health Organization's Western Pacific meeting this week will be how to combat the swine flu pandemic in developing nations.
Jun 26, 2026
Paris (AFP) Sept 10, 2009 - Swine flu can infect cells deeper in the lungs than seasonal flu, thus helping to boost the severity of the illness, a study released on Thursday said.
Jun 26, 2026
Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 21, 2009 - The head of the World Health Organization said Monday the swine flu virus had apparently not yet mutated into a more serious disease, but she is concerned about poorer nations' access to vaccines.
Jun 26, 2026
Geneva (AFP) Sept 4, 2009 - The World Health Organisation said Friday that at least 2,837 people had died from swine flu since the new A(H1N1) virus was uncovered in April.
Jun 26, 2026
