# NuseReal

Geneva schools kick out Swiss kids living in France (LINK) 19 October 2025

— Around 115,000 people work in Geneva but live across the border, where the cost of living is cheaper. French municipalities fuming at having to absorb more than 2,000 extra kids into their classrooms. While some are French, 80 percent of those affected are Swiss. The financial consequences for France are estimated at around 60 million euros in schooling and infrastructure costs, plus another 15 million euros a year thereafter.

President Donald Trump says two surviving "narcoterrorists" from a semi-submersible vessel destroyed by the US military in the Caribbean will be sent to their home countries of Ecuador and Colombia (LINK) 18 October 2025

Venezuela's Maduro ordered new military exercises on 15 October after U.S. military blews up alleged drug boat in Caribbean — (LINK)

German media bias distortingly focuses on crime by foreigners (LINK) 18 October 2025

U.S. Homeland Security buying 2 private jets costing $172 million Kristi Noem's and DHS leaders' use amid government shutdown, reports say (LINK) — ground.news: 13 media reports (LINK) 18 October 2025

— Agency documents show the Department of Homeland Security said the jet buys were "a matter of safety" because the existing Coast Guard jet is over 20 years old, while the United States Coast Guard requested a $50 million Gulfstream V earlier this year.

Trump signs order hitting medium and heavy trucks with 25 per cent tariff on Nov. 1 (LINK) — ground.news: 112 media reports (LINK) 17 October 2025

— The Trump administration will provide a credit for vehicle manufacturers who import some parts into the U.S. so they can make the vehicle in the U.S., in order to offset the tariffs, one of the senior administration officials said.

Court extends restraining order to shield more feds from shutdown RIFs (LINK) 17 October 2025

— Some agencies made clear that they believed the restraining order did not apply to members of collective bargaining units that agencies stopped recognizing in the aftermath of President Trump's March executive order that aimed to end union representation across wide swaths of the government. Judge disagreed.

Trump administration furloughs nuclear weapons agency staff due to shutdown (LINK) 17 October 2025

US sanctions former Haitian security head, gang leader for aiding gang coalition (LINK) — ground.news: 23 media reports (LINK) 17 October 2025

Former U.S. Rep. George Santos released from prison after President Trump commutes sentence in federal fraud case (LINK) 17 October 2025

— The ex-lawmaker's lawyer says Santos was released from prison Friday night. He served roughly 84 days of an 87-month term. The Republican was ousted from office and sentenced to 7 years in prison for fraud and identity theft earlier this year. Trump announced the commutation on his social media platform Truth Social, calling the former lawmaker who lied about his credentials and used campaign donations to pay for lavish expenses "somewhat of a 'rogue'." The president said "at least Santos had the Courage, Conviction, and Intelligence to ALWAYS VOTE REPUBLICAN! George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all accounts, has been horribly mistreated. Therefore, I just signed a Commutation, releasing George Santos from prison, IMMEDIATELY. Good luck George, have a great life!"

Picasso painting insured for $650,000 vanishes on the way to Spanish museum (LINK) 17 October 2025

"Alpes" outlet shopping centre in Bellegarde to go ahead after 2.5 year halt (LINK) 17 October 2025

Two Swiss installations win European solar awards: climate-friendly positive-energy "Alte Schmitte" building complex in Güttingen, canton Thurgau, and the Stanserhorn funicular railway in Nidwalden (LINK) 17 October 2025

— The two projects had set new standards in sustainable construction and climate-friendly mobility, said the Swiss Solar Agency in a press release. Alte Schmitte produces around 400% of its own energy needs,the first positive-energy site in Switzerland to successfully integrate heritage-friendly solar architecture. The Stanserhorn funicular was singled out for its innovative energy concept and its systematic use of solar energy in public transport. The Stanserhorn funicular has an energy surplus of 131%.

DNA evidence uncovers surprising origins of native Americans: in addition to previously described ancestral sources in Siberia, Australo-Melanesia, and Southeast Asia, northern coastal China also contributed to the gene pool of native Americans (LINK) 18 October 2025

More than 150 cheeses enter second Morgins Raclette World Championships on October 24-26 (LINK) 17 October 2025

5th Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipation Summit (LINK) 17 October 2025

— One of the highlights of the summit was a discussion on the rapid development of neurotechnologies generally, and the brain computer interface (BCI) technologies in particular. GESDA decided to start gathering a core group of philanthropic foundations, banks, medical institutions and interested companies, as well international organizations, to help ensure that BCI technologies will be beneficial to all.

If you've got fake 'free' Android Mobdro Pro IP TV + VPN installed on your phone, you're cooked (LINK) 18 October 2025

Major US insurer Northeast Insurance collapses under weight of Child Victims Act claims (LINK) 16 October 2025

Small U.S. businesses are being crushed by Trump's tariffs, and economists say it's a warning for the economy (LINK) 17 October 2025

— The higher costs have hit smaller companies harder because they have fewer levers to pull than their larger competitors. Their margins are slimmer, their supply chains less diverse and their negotiating power with vendors dampened by the smaller sizes of their orders.

Victims of the Pompeii volcano were not who we've been told, according to DNA study (LINK) 19 October 2025

— "Sisters", "father", and "family" labels originally assigned to Pompeii's victims, based on nothing more than the physical appearance and placement of those famous plaster molds, are now replaced with proper descriptions derived from hard science data.

Valendas in Grisons joins exclusive Swiss list of World Tourism Organization/UN Tourism's 10 'Best Tourism Villages' (LINK) 17 October 2025

— UN Tourism honoured Valendas for its commitment to the global sustainable development of tourism and for its various initiatives to preserve, promote and enhance the cultural heritage and natural resources. Alongside Valendas, the municipality of Evolène (Valais) has been selected to participate in the “Best Tourism Villages” upgrade programme for villages with great potential but which do not fully meet the criteria.

— The locations that can already boast the title of "Best Tourism Villages" in Switzerland are Andermatt (canton Uri), Gruyères (Fribourg), Morcote (Ticino), Morat (Fribourg), Romoos (Lucerne), Saas-Fee (Valais), Saint-Ursanne (Jura), Splügen (Graubünden/Grisons) and Valposchiavo (Graubünden/Grisons).

Over 50% of new online articles are being cranked out by AI (LINK) 17 October 2025

— The news was broken when Graphite published a study showing that AI-written articles surpassed human-written articles by a small margin in November 2024. "The proportion of AI-generated articles has remained relatively stable over the last 12 months. We hypothesize that this is because practitioners found that AI-generated articles do not perform well in search..."

Futurism: "We should also take the judgments of AI detectors with a grain of salt, since their reliability is up for question. In its own testing of Surfer's accuracy, Graphite had the detector analyze a sample of AI-generated articles and another sample of human articles, finding that it labeled human-written articles as AI-made 4.2 percent of the time — a common problem with these tools — but only mistook AI-written articles as human 0.6 percent of the time. — (LINK)

Geneva seizes and destroys dozens of e-scooters (LINK) 16 October 2025

— Some were clocked at over 30 kilometres per hour, well above the 20 limit. Those vehicles were seized and destroyed, and their owners fined several hundred francs.

easyJet could become a Geneva company (LINK) 16 October 2025

— According to reports in the Italian press, the Geneva-based Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is exploring a possible stake or even a full takeover of the British budget airline.

Bizarre-looking modular inflatable could be the smartest camping gear of 2025 (LINK) 16 October 2025

Mapped: the world’s 20 fastest growing populations: 1. Syria (LINK) 12 October 2025

More than 150 cheeses enter second Morgins Raclette World Championships on October 24-26 (LINK) 17 October 2025

The Geneva International Film Festival returns for its 31st edition from October 31 to November 9. This year's guests of honor are British director Stephen Frears and American screenwriter Alan Ball (LINK) 13 October 2025

Towards the Sixth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (COP-6), Geneva, 3-7 November 2025 (LINK) 25 August 2025

— As part of the preparation for the meeting, online events will take place from 13 to 17 October 2025.