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Swiss-based body ready to probe hospital bombing

This content was published on Oct 7, 2015 Swiss group IHFFC believes it is ideal to probe bombing of Médecins sans Frontières hospital in Afghanistan by US war planes.

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Swiss want to ‘shake up’ international community over Syria

This content was published on Sep 24, 2015 Switzerland is keen to help inject a new political dynamic in the Syria peace process, Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter has declared. A Swiss diplomat will lead a Syria working groupsthat starts work in Geneva next month.

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Spiez Laboratory aces chemical weapons test

This content was published on Sep 17, 2015 The Swiss defence ministry’s Spiez Laboratory has earned the best score on a proficiency test administered by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

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Swiss to lead Syria working group talks in Geneva

This content was published on Sep 15, 2015 Swiss diplomats are set to lead one of four working groups on how to implement a roadmap to peace in Syria, Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter told Swiss public television (SRF) on Tuesday. Mediators are due to begin work in Geneva in the coming days.

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Swiss flight grounded in India due to bomb scare

This content was published on Sep 5, 2015 Reports in the Indian media state that a phone call was made at 1:30 am local time to the Delhi airport’s call centre regarding the presence of explosives on three planes leaving Delhi. The three flights concerned were Jet Airways and Cathay Pacific planes heading to Hong Kong, as well as the Swiss airlines plane…

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Concerns raised over scope of Arms Trade Treaty

This content was published on Aug 23, 2015 An international conference on a new treaty regulating the arms trade is being held this month in Mexico – and Switzerland is hoping that Geneva will be chosen to host the treaty’s secretariat. But not everyone is convinced that the agreement has enough teeth.

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Red Cross: Yemen is ‘crumbling’ from war

This content was published on Aug 11, 2015 After months of civil war in Yemen the situation is ”catastrophic” and the nation is “crumbling”, declared Peter Maurer, the president of the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Tuesday.

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New evidence of the Battle of Morgarten

This content was published on Aug 11, 2015

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Gun-hoarding Swiss man fined for giant stash

This content was published on Aug 6, 2015 When the 69-year-old man failed to keep appointments with the authorities to carry out checks on his weapons and did not produce documents they had requested, police raided his home in Unterseen, in the Bernese Oberland. They found it was packed to the rafters with guns. After the perimeter of the building was sealed off police…

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