GENEVA – Up to six young designers with a keen knack for art and eyewear might receive €3,000, as part of the so-called O-Six for Art grant. The money comes from the family-owned Italian Thema Optical company, which produces high-end eyewear.
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Police: couple arrested for selling drugs in Geneva
GENEVA, Switzerland – A couple has been arrested after a drug bust in the Plainpalais neighborhood of Geneva.
Geneva to fund your photography project
GENEVA, Switzerland – The city of Geneva is offering a CHF25,000 grant to proven photojournalists/documentarists or photography artists interested in pursuing a photo project in Switzerland or abroad.
Filming: extras wanted in Geneva and Lausanne
GENEVA – Ever wanted to be in the big screen? Here’s your francophone chance!
Staged stabbing at CERN causes uproar, raises questions about security
GENEVA – Several online outlets today point at a bizarre video shot in the premises of CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, whose lab in canton Geneva carries out high-energy physics research. The video, which CERN officials say was shot “without official permission or knowledge”, also raises questions of security in the premises late at…
Swiss train attack claims first fatal victim, no terrorist link, man stopped attacker
SWITZERLAND – A senseless train attack that occurred on Saturday 13 August on a Swiss train in northeastern Switzerland has claimed its first fatal victim. A 34-year-old woman who had been critically injured died today as did the attacker. Two more persons including a 6-year-old, remain in critical condition. Meanwhile, authorities in canton St Gall have shed…
Geneva police in alert after six are injured in Swiss train attack
Updated on Sunday 14 August: suspect is dead, one victim also died. Read the follow up here. GENEVA – St Gallen cantonal police have confirmed a knife and arson attack at around 14:20 in a train near the Salez station between Buchs and Sennwald in northeastern Switzerland.
Geneva offering free French lessons this summer (and at the park!)
GENEVA, Switzerland – For the second year in a row the city of Geneva is offering free French lessons. Unlike 2015, classes will be given in two parks instead of four; high turn out is expected.
Bol d’Or Mirabaud: Winds favor beautiful sailing competition over Lake Geneva
https://www.instagram.com/p/BGgcP4NQzu7/ GENEVA – After a little over eight hours of sailing—and a few hundred thousand francs in training, salaries and equipment—the catamaran Ladycat has won the Lake Geneva Bol d’Or Mirabaud.
Murder-suicide, two people dead in Carouge, Geneva
CAROUGE, Geneva – A third homicide has taken place in canton Geneva, this time in the Acacias/Carouge area, where police reports indicate a man has shot a woman dead in the street, before killing himself.
Geneva’s Ville est a Vous begins but lack of volunteers shuts neighborhood fleamarkets
GENEVA, Switzerland – The wildly popular Ville-est-a-Vous—a bizarre bazaar of neighborhood street festivals featuring blocks and blocks of fleamarkets, music and food stalls—is back but, before you head out with your wears, beware. A lack of volunteers and administrative reluctance is severely cutting back the fun.
The Manor free fruit photo that made a shop owner famous in French-speaking Switzerland
GENEVA – When Vinze Berardy set himself to go shopping for his small business at the Manor supermarket in Sion, he never imagined he’d find a plate full of fresh fruit that would make him famous. It wasn’t just the fruit though… but the message next to it:
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