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Geneva (AFP) - Switzerland signed a controversial contract on Monday to buy 36 US F-35 stealth fighter jets at a cost of more than six billion francs ($6.2 billion). "National Armaments Director Martin Sonderegger and the Swiss F-35A Program Manager Darko Savic signed the procurement contract on 19 September 2022 at armasuisse in Bern," said armasuisse, the country's arms procurement agency. "With this, the procurement of 36 F-35A is contractually agreed," it added. The selection of the F-35 by the Swiss government in June 2021 sparked some controversy, particularly in light of the cost-overr...
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Washington (AFP) - A consortium of European cheesemakers have lost their case in US federal court, in which they sought to limit the usage of the term "gruyere" to only those cheeses produced near the town of Gruyeres, Switzerland. When shoppers in Europe buy gruyere cheese, they can be sure that the soft, nutty wheel has been crafted by French or Swiss cheesemakers using a specific process, in a specific geographical region. That is because cheesemakers near Gruyeres, like bubbly-producers in the Champagne region of France, have successfully lobbied European regulators to protect their exclus...
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Washington (AFP) - Modern brains are younger than originally thought, possibly developing as recently as 1.5 million years ago, according to a study published Thursday -- after the earliest humans had already begun walking on two feet and had even started fanning out from Africa. Our first ancestors from the genus Homo emerged on the continent about 2.5 million years ago with primitive ape-like brains about half the size of those seen in today's humans. Scientists have been trying to solve a mystery for as long as our origin story has been known: Exactly when and where did the brain evolve in...
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New York (AFP) - A sculpture by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti is being auctioned by Sotheby's with a reserve price of $90 million but the winning offer on Tuesday could remain secret as it is being sold by sealed bid.If "Grande femme I" sells for more than $100 million, Giacometti will equal Pablo Picasso as only the second artist with four works beyond that threshold.The nearly nine-foot (2.68 meter) bronze of a spindly female figure, cast in 1960, is part of a series of large outdoor sculptures originally intended for Chase Manhattan Plaza in New York but never installed.Under the rules of...
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