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Switzerland pledges more to Syria conflict victims

This content was published on Feb 4, 2016 Swiss President Johann Schneider-Ammann announced at an international Syria donor conference in London on Thursday that Switzerland would support victims of the conflict with CHF50 million ($50.1 million). The money will be donated this year and will be split between direct aid to Syria and refugees in surrounding countries. Schneider-Ammann made the pledge as around…

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Hundreds protest against Islamophobic movement

This content was published on Feb 3, 2016 The police also demanded parliament be closed to the public on Wednesday morning, the first time the public has not been able to watch politicians at work. The protestors did not have any banners but shouted anti-fascist slogans. No supporters of PEGIDA (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West) or any other far-right group…

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Swiss government to probe PLO connection

This content was published on Jan 28, 2016 The new group will include representatives of the justice as well as the foreign and defence ministries. It was formed in response to revelations in the book Schweizer Terrorjahre (Swiss terror years) by journalist Marcel Gyr. According to Gyr’s research, former Foreign Minister Pierre Graber conducted a secret meeting with the PLO in 1970 in…

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Top diplomats to meet in Zurich on Syria, Ukraine

This content was published on Jan 15, 2016 Top diplomats for the US and Russia will meet in Zurich next week for talks on Syria and Ukraine just ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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Police chief weighs in on anti-jihadi measures

This content was published on Nov 12, 2015 The head of the Federal Office of Police has outlined plans for a proposed travel ban for radicalised jihadis, saying it would be possible to confiscate passports and require them to regularly check in with authorities.

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PKK creates rift between Swiss Kurds and Turks

This content was published on Nov 3, 2015 Representatives of both sides in Switzerland say they live peacefully together – as long as there is no mention of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). “You are not going to write what I tell you anyway,” Turgut Dagci, a project manager for…

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Swiss ‘shocked’ at targeting of hospitals

This content was published on Oct 29, 2015 The Swiss foreign ministry has expressed its ‘shock’ at the recent military attacks against hospitals in war zones, while carefully sidestepping who is to blame.

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Swiss send more aid to eastern Ukraine

This content was published on Oct 27, 2015 On October 26, a convoy of 20 trucks delivered water treatment chemicals for the Donbas water treatment plant, as well as cancer medicines for two local hospitals. Other areas receiving Swiss aid included Mariupol and Krasnoarmiisk on the government-controlled side of the contact line. In all, CHF1 million ($1.01 million) worth of aid was delivered. …

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Clashes between police and leftwing protestors

This content was published on Oct 17, 2015 Security forces initially stopped a group of about 100 marchers in the city centre, police said. But running battles continued for several hours in the streets across the city busy with weekend shoppers and onlookers, local media reported. Police fired rubber bullets at militants and detained more than a hundred people for questioning. The activists…

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How the police are trained in Switzerland

This content was published on Oct 15, 2015

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