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Work on U.N.-Ferney tram beginning: line due to open in December 2028 (LINK) 15 September 2025
Millions of Thailand's citizens are waking up to frozen bank accounts because of call center fraud: Bitcoin anyone? (LINK) 15 September 2025
UBS threatens relocation to US over Swiss capital demands that would force the bank to hold an additional $26 billion in reserves (LINK) — ground.news: 15 media reports (LINK) 14 September 2025
UN special rapporteur Mary Lawlor: Gaza's human rights defenders in their own words (LINK) 14 September 2025
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Europe's summer of extreme weather caused €43bn of short-term losses, EU analysis finds: greatest damage from heat, drought and flooding done in Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Bulgaria (LINK) 15 September 2025
— The economists from the University of Mannheim and the European Central Bank described the results as "conservative" because they did not account for the record-breaking wildfires that torched southern Europe last month or the compounding impact of extreme weather events that strike at the same time.
Official figures indicate net migration to UK is falling, yet concern among Britons is close to the highest it has been since polling began in 1974 (LINK) 14 September 2025
Ex-UK PM Boris Johnson appears to have repeatedly broken ethics rules as he tried to trade on relationships made in No 10 (LINK) 14 September 2025
Heather Cox Richardson: Behind the Lisa Cook, Charlie Kirk stories (LINK) 13 September 2025
— In fact, the alleged shooter was not someone on the left. The alleged killer, Tyler Robinson, is a young white man from a Republican, gun enthusiast family, who appears to have embraced the far right, disliking Kirk for being insufficiently radical.
CNet: Stop eating plastic. Start by trashing these 7 items: check Teflon and nonstick cookware, plastic food containers, plastic utensils, tea bags, plastic-packaged spices, straws, canned food linings (LINK) 15 September 2025
8 best European cities for expats: where to live, work, and thrive: 1. Zurich, satisfaction rate 97% (LINK) 15 September 2025
The most expensive for expats (1. Switzerland) and the cheapest (1. Mexico, 2. Lithuania): (LINK) 10 September 2025
Mars Perseverance rover data suggests presence of past microbial life (LINK) 14 September 2025
Universities around the world cut ties with Israeli academia over Gaza war: however, few institutions in the UK, France and Germany have announced they are cutting links Israeli academia, with Universities UK (UUK) saying it does not support an academic boycott (LINK) 13 September 2025
RFK Jr. defends ouster of CDC Director by distorting list of public health achievement: update (LINK) 4 September 2025
UNAIDS exhibits posters in Geneva throughout September to dispel myths and misconceptions about HIV (LINK) 2 September 2025
Exposing environmental crimes: online training for journalists and communication professionals: Geneva, 29 September 2025 - 1 October 2025 (half-day sessions: 8:00–11:30 a.m. — (LINK)
— The course will address the growing threat of disinformation in environmental reporting and offer strategies to identify and counter false or misleading narratives.
Towards the Sixth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP-6), Geneva, 3-7 November 2025 (LINK) 25 August 2025
— As part of the preparation for the meeting, online events will take place from 13 to 17 October 2025.