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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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ICRC worker’s body returned to Switzerland

This content was published on Oct 9, 2014 “We are still in shock over the death of Laurent Du Pasquier,” said Dominik Stillhart, director of operations at the Swiss-run International Committee of the Red Cross, at a press conference in Geneva. A farewell ceremony will be held for the slain Swiss ICRC worker in Neuchâtel on Friday. His death on October 2 was the second…

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Wartime ‘people smugglers’ finally feted as heroes

This content was published on Oct 8, 2014 The Swiss and French who defied the Nazis by smuggling weapons, microfilm and Jews finally have a memorial in their honour.

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The 1994 Solar Temple cult deaths in Switzerland

This content was published on Oct 5, 2014 Solar Temple gained worldwide notoriety between September 1994 and March 1997 when the burnt bodies of 74 of its members were found in Switzerland, Canada and then France. On October 5, 1994, 23 bodies were discovered in a burnt-out farm in canton Fribourg. Another 25 bodies were found in canton Valais. Several had been shot…

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War on all sides

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Businessman who bribed Gaddafi’s son sentenced

This content was published on Oct 2, 2014 A Tunisian-Canadian businessman who bribed the son of the Libyan ex-dictator, Moammar Gaddafi, for work contracts has been sentenced by a Swiss court. The man had personally profited to the sum of around CHF40 million ($38.2 million). The Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona handed down the sentence as the defendant had used a bank account…

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Swiss support UN on foreign fighters

This content was published on Sep 25, 2014 Switzerland has given its backing to a UN Security Council resolution on foreign terrorist fighters. The move, which was co-sponsored unanimously by more than 100 member states, does not give authorisation for the use of military force. It means Switzerland has agreed to tackle so-called home-grown terrorists, who head to conflict zones to fight for…

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Ukraine: Gorbachev warns of escalating conflict

This content was published on Sep 18, 2014 Gorbachev was the seventh and last leader of the Soviet Union. His policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) led to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990 “for his leading role in the peace process which today characterises important parts of the international community”. He…

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