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Swiss Confectioners Devise New Type of Chocolate Called Ruby

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 7, 2017 | Food

London- For the first time in 80 years, Swiss confectioners have unveiled a fourth type of chocolate after milk, dark and white, called Ruby. Swiss chocolate giant Barry Callebaut says it used the ruby cocoa bean to create a confectionery with “berry-fruitiness and...

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A handout photo released on August 24 by the Police Cantonale des Grisons shows a partial view of the landslide in the Swiss village of Bondo on August 23.//AFP

Up to 14 People Missing after Landslide in Swiss Alps

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 24, 2017 | World

Up to 14 people, including Germans, Austrians and Swiss, were still missing and several villages were evacuated after a landslide in southeast Switzerland, police said on Thursday. Authorities had evacuated around 100 people from the village of Bondo, about 130...

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Smoke billows out from the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa in Syria following a coalition air strike on July 28, 2017. AFP photo

Swiss Woman Indicted over Bid to Join ISIS in Syria

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 24, 2017 | Middle East

Switzerland’s attorney general has indicted a 30-year-old Swiss woman suspected of trying to reach Syria to join the ISIS terrorist organization with her four-year-old child in tow. The Office of the Attorney General (OAG), Michael Lauber, said Thursday the...

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Police and ambulance cars are seen in the old quarter of Schaffhausen in northern Switzerland on July 24, after a man armed with a chainsaw injured at least five people in an attack. (AFP)

Hunt Still on for Swiss Chainsaw Attack Suspect

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 25, 2017 | World

A massive manhunt was underway at the Swiss-German border on Tuesday in search for the suspect behind a chainsaw attack in the Swiss town of Schaffhausen on Monday. All-night searches for the suspect, 51-year-old Franz Wrousis, accused of attacking two employees of a...

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The police shut down the old town of Schaffhausen in Switzerland. (AP)

5 Injured in Chainsaw Attack in Switzerland

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 24, 2017 | World

At least five people were wounded in Switzerland on Monday in an attack by a man wielding a chainsaw, local media said. Two of the wounded suffered serious injuries, in what the police said was “not a terrorist act.” Witnesses, including a local shop manager, in the...