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  • Temps set to fall today

    Switzerland is set to break free of its record-breaking heatwave today, as a cooler front moves in after Saturday's 39°C in Basel — a national June record broken three days running.

  • Calls to end block on air-conditioning

    A Green-Liberal MP is pushing to break its taboo around air conditioning in hospitals and care homes, as the current heatwave strains nursing staff.

  • Divonne chateau hit by fire, again

    The Chateau in the French town of Divonne les Bains has been ravaged by fire - again.

  • Fire bar will never re-open

    Six months after the New Year's fire that killed 41 people at the Constellation bar in Crans-Montana, Valais cantonal president Christophe Darbellay says the site will never reopen as a bar.

  • Lausanne Pride draws thousands

    Around 20,000 marched through Lausanne on Saturday for the Pride parade, the first Pride event in the city for 20 years.

  • Police use drones to broadcast warnings

    Police in Marin, canton Neuchâtel, used drones to warn residents to stay indoors yesterday afternoon, after a hydrochloric-acid leak at an EM Microelectronics plant.

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