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Seen in the press
VIRUS: Avian flu threatens Swiss poultry, reports the newspaper Le Temps. The epizootic of this disease due to the H5N1 virus since the beginning of 2021 is the most severe ever recorded in several regions of the globe. A circulating strain of the H5N1 virus has already claimed tens of millions of winged victims in the United States and Europe. If countries plan to vaccinate farmed birds, nothing is yet planned in Switzerland.
OLIGARCHS: The United States has sanctioned two Swiss trustees who, according to a press release from the American Ministry of Finance, had worked for Russian oligarchs, reports the German-speaking newspapers of Tamedia. Sequoia Treuhand Trust is domiciled in Ruggell, Liechtenstein. Authorities there now want to investigate the company. In addition, a senior American official went to Switzerland yesterday to meet representatives of the Confederation and the banks.
Highlights of the day
E-VOTING: Swiss Post is demonstrating and testing its new electronic voting system on Wednesday.
CLIMATE: The Blue March is expected this weekend in Bern. Before arriving in the capital, the organizers of the march, which left Geneva on April 1, will inform the media about their demands during a stopover in Fribourg.
DIPLOMACY: Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis is on a three-day visit to Italy and the Vatican. This Wednesday, he must notably officially inaugurate the new Swiss embassy to the Holy See.
Anniversaries and Jubilees
– 25 years ago (1998): The Red Army Faction (RAF) announces its dissolution.
– 30 Years Ago (1993): The FBI raids a Davidian cult farm in Waco, Texas, after a 51-day siege. At least 80 people are killed in the fires they started themselves.
– 80 years ago (1943): beginning of the Warsaw ghetto uprising against the deportation of the last inhabitants announced by the German occupier. Tens of thousands of Jews lost their lives.
– 80 years ago (1943): Birth of the German actor Claus Theo Gärtner, known for his role as private detective Josef Matula in the detective series “A case for two”.
The saying of the day
“A mild April when it thunders is the worst of all”
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