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  According to the NZZ am Sonntag, the federal government is considering lifting the import ban on US poultry washed in chlorine – a practice banned in both Switzerland and the EU.

• City backtracks over forest dragon

  In Geneva, two unauthorized wooden sculptures in the forest of Saint-Jean will be spared from destruction.

• A new kind of mobile fraud is spreading in Switzerland

  The Federal Office of Cybersecurity has issued a warning about so-called SMS blasters – devices that mimic mobile antennas and can intercept telephone communications.

• Camels escape from circus

  A circus currently in St Genis, in neighbouring France, lost a few of its camels.

• Reports suggest UBS considering US merger

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• Work on Ferney tram begins today

  Groundbreaking begins today on the Geneva section of the Tram des Nations.