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Swiss winter aid increased for refugees

This content was published on Dec 4, 2014 Disaster relief organisation CaritasExternal link announced on Thursday an emergency programme for Erbil and Dohuk in northern Iraq for CHF800,000 ($825,000). The organisation said the money should benefit 25,000 people displaced by war who live in empty houses or tents outside official refugee camps. These people have already received for the past year urgently needed…

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ICRC to raise budget and relocate staff

This content was published on Nov 27, 2014 This amount, the largest ever requested by the ICRC, represents a 25% increase over the initial appeal made by the organisation last year. “This record budget is required to meet the needs and fit our response to the changing nature of armed conflict,” said ICRC President Peter Maurer at the launch of the organisation’s emergency…

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Ukraine ceasefire lauded by Swiss diplomat

This content was published on Nov 25, 2014 Speaking at an event organised by the Eastern Europe Forum of the University of Basel on Monday, she said that maintaining the ceasefire agreement must be “absolute priority”. She said that the area covered by the agreement is equivalent to half the size of Switzerland. However, Tagliavini acknowledged that while the ceasefire was respected in…

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Switzerland condemns attack at Jerusalem synagogue

This content was published on Nov 18, 2014 Switzerland has “vehemently condemned” the fatal attack against worshippers in a synagogue in Jerusalem in which four Israelis were killed and eight injured with a pistol and meat cleavers.

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Task force set up to prevent ‘export of terrorism’

This content was published on Nov 14, 2014 The government said in a statement on Friday that since the beginning of the year jihadist-motivated journeys with the intention of illegal fighting and terrorism in conflict areas had reached an unprecedented level. Last month the Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) revealed that between 2001 and September 2014 it had counted 55 cases of people leaving…

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Diary of an unusual man’s adventurous war

This content was published on Nov 11, 2014 Diary of the War tells the story of Neuchâtel writer Guy de Pourtalès, born in Berlin, raised in Switzerland and naturalised French.

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Following the trail of the Berlin Wall

This content was published on Nov 8, 2014 Swiss photographer Dominique de Rivaz walked the 155 kilometres along what was once the Berlin Wall.

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Two Swiss events emphasise keeping the peace

This content was published on Oct 25, 2014 The first event celebrated 25 years of Swiss peace-keeping on behalf of the United Nations. Around 9,000 members of the Swiss Army, including 560 women, have participated in international peace-keeping missions in the past quarter century. That engagement was celebrated on Saturday with a public event at the SWISSINT Competence Centre in canton Nidwalden. The…

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Intelligence Service tallies jihadists from Switzerland

This content was published on Oct 15, 2014 The number of jihadist fighters from Switzerland has almost tripled over the last 1.5 years, according to the Swiss Federal Intelligence Service.

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Swiss confirm support for Palestine

This content was published on Oct 13, 2014 Switzerland plans to allocate an average of CHF30 million ($31.5 million) a year in aid to the Occupied Palestinian Territory for the 2014-17 period.

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