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• First new AVS payment due

  Swiss pensioners will receive their first 13th AVS payment in December, averaging around CHF 1,580

• Contraception free or not?

  Geneva voters will decide whether to make contraception free, in what the canton says is a choice between public health and personal responsibility

• Vignette patrols stepped up

  Nearly 200 drivers have been caught crossing into Switzerland without a valid motorway vignette in recent border checks near Basel

• Fuel prices close to record high

  Swiss fuel prices are closing in on the 2022 record, with the TCS reporting petrol at CHF 2.05 a litre and diesel at CHF 2.30

• Job losses add up

  Geneva's international organisations have shed more than 2,800 jobs since Donald Trump returned to the White House

• Mountain attraction record broken

  Vaud's Glacier 3000 has broken its all-time attendance record before its financial year even closes, with roughly 265,000 visitors expected — up two-thirds in a decade

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