| March 3, 2007 | -
Switzerland accidentally invaded Liechtenstein.
| Source:
BBC
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| January 25, 2007 | - At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Adel Abdul Mahdi, the Vice President of Iraq, called the occupation of Iraq an “idiot decision.”
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 29, 2006 | -
Swiss hikers were warned not to hug cows.
| Source:
Independent Online
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| May 30, 2006 | - The first wild bear seen in Germany since 1835 continued to attack farm animals and elude capture. “For security purposes,” said Bavarian Environment Minister Werner Schnappauf, “the permission to open fire must be maintained.” Authorities said the brother of the bear had killed Swiss
sheep last summer.
| Source:
Fox News
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| December 23, 2005 | -
Scientists in Switzerland found that taking didgeridoo lessons cuts down on snoring.
| Source:
Reuters
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| October 14, 2005 | -
Swiss scientists discovered that the prions that cause mad cow disease and scrapie can be passed through cow urine.
| Source:
Medical News Today
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| August 27, 2005 | -
Europe, previously burning, was flooding. Floods killed 33 people in Romania, and parts of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Bulgaria, and Poland were under water.
| Source:
BBC News
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| August 21, 2005 | - In Switzerland a historically important boulder called Unspunnenstein was stolen by French-speaking separatists.
| Source:
BBC News
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| June 5, 2005 | -
Switzerland gave gay couples tax and inheritance rights, but will not allow them to adopt children.
| Source:
BBC News
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| May 24, 2005 | - Officials in Zurich decided that a massive teddy bear in bondage regalia could not be put on display as part of the city's “Teddy-Summer” project.
| Source:
Reuters
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| March 2, 2005 | - A Swiss synesthete who tastes music reported that Bach is creamy.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| February 25, 2005 | - A Swiss court lifted the ban on using “Bin Ladin” as a brand name. The name is registered to Osama bin Laden's half-brother.
| Source:
CANOE
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| August 27, 2004 | -
Swiss researchers found that people really do enjoy revenge.
| Source:
Reuters
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| March 12, 2004 | -
Switzerland moved to legalize absinthe.
| Source:
News24.com
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| January 2, 2004 | -
Switzerland pardoned citizens who were convicted of helping Jews during World War II.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 29, 2003 | -
The White House was pondering ways to punish France for opposing its invasion of Iraq, and noted that when President Bush attends an economic summit meeting in the French Alps in June, he will sleep in Switzerland.
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| April 22, 2003 | -
Investigators revealed that a retired banker living in Switzerland spent 10 years helping Saddam Hussein hide millions of dollars via a Bahamas bank account under the name of Satan.
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| January 28, 2003 | -
Important people from all over the world descended on Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum.
Protesters threw snowballs at police; police fired tear gas at the protesters.
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| October 8, 2002 | -
The Cow Plachard Company was painting advertisements on the sides of cows in Switzerland.
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| September 24, 2002 | -
Astronomers found evidence of water in the atmospheres of distant planets, and scientists in Switzerland created antimatter antiatoms of cold antihydrogen.
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| July 30, 2002 | -
Researchers in Switzerland reported that Swiss people have no serious complaints.
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| July 2, 2002 | -
“At times I think he is talking about Switzerland and not about the Middle East.” Britain's foreign secretary Jack Straw criticized Bush's ultimatum, saying it was up to the Palestinians to choose their own leader.
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| May 21, 2002 | -
French police were searching the Rhône-Rhine Canal for stolen artworks.
After Stéphane Breitwieser was arrested for trying to steal a bugle from a museum in Switzerland, his mother threw much of his collection of stolen art into the canal and chopped up drawings and oil paintings by Watteau, Lucas Cranach the Elder, and Pieter Brueghel the Younger.
Police estimated the value of the art at $1.4 billion.
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| April 16, 2002 | -
A freak storm dumped 80,000 tons of sand from the Sahara Desert in western Switzerland.
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| February 5, 2002 | -
The World Economic Forum was held in New York instead of
Davos, Switzerland, and many
celebrities were feeling left out when they weren't invited to
swanky parties populated with economists, businessmen, and
sundry apologists of globalization. Panelists included Bono,
the pop star, who told the press that “the great thing about
hanging out with Republicans is that it's very unhip for both of
us. There's a parity of pain here.” About 1,000 people
demonstrated in front of a Gap store in Manhattan to protest the
company's use of overseas sweatshops. Media hopes for
Seattle-style violence were disappointed.
“Starbucks can rest easy for
another day,” one policeman
told a reporter.
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| June 26, 2001 | - A 16-month-old toddler was found dead in an apartment in Switzerland three weeks after her mother was taken into custody by police; authorities believe the child survived for about ten days, perhaps by drinking water from the toilet.
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| January 2, 2001 | - President Andrés Pastrana of Colombia was considering setting up an autonomous zone for the National Liberation Army, Colombia's second-largest rebel group, that would be roughly the same size as the zone controlled by Colombia's largest rebel army, which is roughly the size of Switzerland.
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| December 19, 2000 | -
Switzerland banned the sale of beef on the bone because of mad-cow concerns.
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