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Volunteers stay up through the night to protect livestock.
A hundred alphorn players gather high up in the Swiss Alps for the 22nd International Alphorn Festival, with their dulcet tones and harmonies echoing around the mountains. The alphorn is a traditional Swiss instrument which was reputedly used to communicate in the mountains, with its clear sound ringing around the valleys.
Senior officials from over a dozen countries including Saudi Arabia and Iran were in talks on closer links with the BRICS bloc of major emerging economies on Friday as it met to deepen ties and position itself as a counterweight to the West. BRICS, which now consists of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is considering expanding its membership, and a growing number of countries, mostly from the global South, have expressed interest in joining. FRANCE 24's Nadine Theron tells us more.
“Hopefully my small success will inspire other girls to follow their dreams."
Like everywhere else in Europe, Swiss households are being called upon to save energy. But this comes naturally to the inhabitants of the Bavona Valley, one of the most remote parts of the Alpine country and which has never been connected to the electricity grid.
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