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• More drug related violence in Geneva

  A gunman has opened fire in broad daylight in the Perrier neighbourhood of Annemasse, just across the border from Geneva

• More school protest disruption in Haute Savoie

  Around 200 students blocked Annecy's lycée Charles-Baudelaire yesterday morning, the latest flare-up in a wave of French school protests over learning conditions

• AI changes employment for young people

  Switzerland's young apprenticeship graduates are stuck in an AI paradox: employers reject them for lack of experience, while artificial intelligence has automated the entry-level tasks that once built that experience

• New scam alert

  Thousands of Swiss phone users have received a genuine UBS activation code by SMS overnight — the first stage of what the bank describes as a new, multi-step scam

• Snow returns to Zermatt

  Zermatt reopens its glacier for free skiing from next Wednesday, after a heatwave forced the cable car operator to shut the slopes in late July

• Fuel prices an issue for many frontaliers

  Rising fuel prices are affecting frontaliers in the Chablais, where the public transport network isn’t adequate enough for most workers to leave the car at home