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'On the Water Festival' great success
Nearly 3,000 people took to Lake Geneva on Saturday for the second edition of the ‘On The Water Geneva Festival’ — dancing from their boats to music blasted out in 360 degrees from a floating barge.
Nearly a million for Zurich parade
Around 900,000 dance music fans turned out for Zurich’s 33rd Street Parade on Saturday — despite the heat.
Woman found dead on Mont-Blanc
A Russian mountaineer in her sixties has been found dead in a crevasse on the Glacier du Tour on Mont Blanc.
Sugar beet crop wiped out
Sugar beet farmers are facing a disastrous harvest, with drought and extreme heat killing crops before they mature.
Summer ski areas close
Saas-Fee has become the latest ski resort to suspend summer skiing because of the heat.
Russia gets involved with upcoming neutrality vote
Russia is openly campaigning for a yes vote on the upcoming neutrality referendum.

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