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One person is found dead after floods in southern Switzerland.
2024-06-23

Switzerland reports its first two case of new variant of SARS-CoV-2 from South Africa after two people tested positive for COVID-19 despite having no clear traveling history to South Africa.
2020-12-28

The People's Republic of China plans to soon permit the online sale of prescription drugs.
2015-01-9

Voters in Switzerland go to the polls for a federal election, with the Green Liberal Party of Switzerland gaining the most seats compared to the 2007 election, and the Swiss People's Party losing eight seats but remaining the biggest party in the Federal Assembly.
2011-10-23

Details of U.S. collaboration with at least 10 foreign intelligence agencies emerge, with Chinese, Tunisian, Moroccan, Russian, Saudi, Tajik, Jordanian, Algerian, Yemeni and Kuwaiti delegations assisting the U.S. with interrogations at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, and China and Russia vowing to prosecute and punish any repatriated Uighurs or Uzbeks.
2011-04-25

Wikileaks releases 250,000 messages sent by U.S. embassies, including messages discussing corruption, criticisms of the UK, Guantánamo Bay prison camp, a Chinese cyber attack, the relationship between Vladimir Putin and Silvio Berlusconi, and a possible unified Korea.
2010-11-28

A Chinese activist Zhao Lianhai who campaigned for victims of the tainted milk scandal in 2008 is jailed for two and half years for "inciting social disorder".
2010-11-10

China announces a national day of mourning for the victims of mudslides in the northwest of the country, as the death toll rises to 1,239 people.
2010-08-14

China sentences an Uyghur journalist who spoke to foreign media after riots in Xinjiang last year to 15 years imprisonment.
2010-07-23

A Uyghur man is sentenced to 16 months imprisonment for spying on a Uyghur community in Sweden and passing information to China.
2010-03-9