<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; color: #141215; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;">A series of health centres </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #141215; font-size: small;">specifically catering to the needs of</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; color: #141215; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small;"> gay men are being planned across Switzerland to help homosexuals deal with HIV issues, fear and psychological discomfort.</span></span></p>
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<p>Switzerland on Thursday suspended imports of some seeds, beans and sprouts from Egypt, after the European Union blamed Egyptian fenugreek seeds for E.coli outbreaks in Germany and France.</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Whether you're a Russian oligarch's wife wanting to lose weight for your wedding or the leader of the world's Catholics looking for a little pick-me-up, there's a little place in Montreux that could be just what you need.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Swiss government has decided to make</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> wealthy foreigners pay more taxes, but refused to scrap lumpsum tax deals </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">aimed at attracting the rich to the Alpine nation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">One out of three work-related accidents in Switzerland involved a foreign worker last year, according to newly released figures.</span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">About 70 percent of Swiss consumers have shopped across the country's borders in the last year to save money, according to a new study.</span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">The number of young people who light up regularly is on the rise despite a general decrease in the number of smokers in Switzerland and a recent smoking ban in the country.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">A 27-year-old woman driving on a Swiss highway has admitted to police that the flash of a speed camera woke her up as she zoomed at 210 km/h.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">The Council of States has approved a new law allowing Swiss couples to have a free choice as to which of their surnames to adopt as a family name.</span></p>
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<p>Switzerland has identified a third person infected with a rare strain of the E. coli bacteria that has killed 18 people in Europe, authorities said Friday.</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A Swiss amateur bodybuilder has caused a series of accidents as he drove on the wrong way down a motorway in the Czech Republic.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: small;"></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Women in Switzerland earn 41 percent less than men, according to the Swiss Federation of Trade Unions (SGB). Wage discrimination has even increased over the past few years, the group said on Friday. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Switzerland's second-largest supermarket chain, Coop, has pulled Spanish cucumbers off its shelves after authorities in Germany found the produce partly responsible for a deadly food-poisoning outbreak there.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A new sex education program being introduced in Basel this year includes a "sex box" with wooden penises and fabric vaginas. The curriculum goes too far for some parents and politicians.</span></p>
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<p>Japan's Takeda Pharmaceutical said Thursday it reached a €9.6 billion ($13.6 billion) deal to buy Swiss drugmaker Nycomed in what would be one of the biggest overseas acquisitions by a Japanese firm.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">The second “Home Office Day” is under way in Switzerland, with hundreds of office workers planning to stay home, organizers have said.</span> </p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; line-height: 17px;">Switzerland is the 5<sup>th</sup> most competitive country in the world, according to newly released figures</span>.</p>
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<p>Voters in the Swiss region of Zurich, which has become known as a hub for "death tourism", voted on Sunday against plans to restrict assisted suicide to local residents.</p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">The number of fatal crashes in Switzerland fell in 2010, but the number remains too high, a new report has said.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Almost 400 cases of measles have been registered in Switzerland over the last six months</span>.</span></p>
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