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Küsnacht (Switzerland) (AFP) - Tina Turner was in her element on stage, putting on dazzling shows dominated by her full-power vocals. But offstage, the queen of rock revelled in the peace and privacy of Switzerland. The megastar could live a relatively untroubled life in the small town of Kuesnacht, an affluent suburb of Switzerland's biggest city Zurich spread out along the lakeside. Many locals who came to lay flowers Thursday outside Turner's chateau recalled seeing her in the local supermarkets -- not that they would have bothered her -- or bumping into her in restaurants. Turner moved to ...
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Küsnacht (Switzerland) (AFP) - "Someone like this should live forever," said one of Tina Turner's neighbours as she laid flowers outside the rock legend's lakeside home in Switzerland on Thursday. Barbara Burkhalter was among a steady stream of people who left cards and messages outside Turner's chateau, where the 83-year-old queen of rock had lived for nearly three decades. Turner's death on Wednesday sparked tributes from world leaders and fellow rock icons -- but also from her neighbours in the plush Zurich suburb of Kuesnacht, where the star lived a quiet, untroubled life. "I brought flowe...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Rock legend Tina Turner, the growling songstress who electrified audiences for decades, died Wednesday at the age of 83 after a long illness. "It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tina Turner," read a statement on the official Instagram page of the eight-time Grammy winner. "With her music and her boundless passion for life, she enchanted millions of fans around the world and inspired the stars of tomorrow. "Today we say goodbye to a dear friend who leaves us all her greatest work: her music. All our heartfelt compassion goes out to her family. "Tina, ...
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New York (AFP) - Rock legend Tina Turner, the growling songstress who electrified audiences for decades, has died at the age of 83, a statement said Wednesday. "It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tina Turner," read the statement on the official Instagram page of the eight-time Grammy winner. "With her music and her boundless passion for life, she enchanted millions of fans around the world and inspired the stars of tomorrow. "Today we say goodbye to a dear friend who leaves us all her greatest work: her music. All our heartfelt compassion goes out to her family. "Tina,...
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New York (AFP) - A US appeals court ruled Friday that in America the word "gruyere" is a common label for cheese and cannot be reserved just for the kind made originally in France or Switzerland. The United States does not have the same strict rules as Europe on the designation of origin for foods, said judges in the Richmond, Virginia-based US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. The US Food and Drug Administration does set some standards for gruyere cheese, such as the existence in it of "small holes" or that such cheese is aged at least 90 days. But it does not establish criteria on geo...
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Geneva (AFP) - "It is dizzying," Eric Vanoncini acknowledged to the classroom full of anxious teachers as reams of text generated by the ChatGPT bot unfurled on the large screen behind him. "It risks upending the world of education as we know it." The high school English and philosophy teacher had gathered dozens of educators for one of several workshops hastily organised in the Swiss canton of Geneva following urgent appeals for guidance on how to deal with the new know-it-all bot. The release in November of ChatGPT, which uses artificial intelligence to convincingly mimic human writing, has ...
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New York (AFP) - Swedish-Swiss industrial company ABB agreed to pay $315 million to settle US criminal charges that it bribed state-owned Eskom of South Africa over government contracts, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday. Two affiliates of ABB each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act as part of a three-year deferred prosecution agreement, the US agency said of a settlement that was coordinated with government authorities in Switzerland, Germany and South Africa. The issue concerns a troubled project near Johannesburg with the...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States said Wednesday it was setting up an outside, professionally-run fund to manage $3.5 billion in Afghanistan's reserves, concluding it cannot trust the Taliban leadership with the country's money. The new Afghan Fund, based in Geneva, will be put in charge of core central bank functions such as paying Afghanistan's international arrears and for its electricity imports and potentially for future necessities such as printing currency. The decision comes after talks between the Taliban and the United States failed to convince President Joe Biden's administration...
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Washington (AFP) - The United States and Russia will hold high-level talks next week in the second bid in as many months to encourage stability in the tense relationship, officials said Friday. The so-called Strategic Stability Dialogue, set up during a June 16 summit between US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Geneva, will take place on Wednesday in the same city, the US State Department said. "Through this dialogue, we seek to lay the groundwork for future arms control and risk reduction measures," it said in a statement. It added the US delegation will be le...
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Geneva (AFP) - Wednesday's talks between US President Joe Biden and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin evoke vivid memories of the 1985 Geneva summit, when Cold War rivals Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time. Despite the chilly November weather in the Swiss city, relations began to thaw between Washington and Moscow as the US president and the Soviet leader came face to face on neutral territory. Now some 36 years on, Biden and Putin are set for decidedly less hopeful talks on the placid shores of Lake Geneva, with the echo of history surrounding them. Back in 1985, "the...
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