Geopolitics

Switzerland sends more troops to Kosovo

This content was published on Jun 13, 2014 The Swiss Armed Forces have been deployed to Kosovo since October 1999. The Swiss Company (Swisscoy for short) has been deployed there as part of the KFOR support mission for peace. Swisscoy is made up of voluntary military personnel armed for self-defence. In the beginning, just after the war, they focused on emergency aid and…

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70th anniversary of mistaken US attack

This content was published on Apr 1, 2014 About 15 B24 planes unleashed their bombs, mistaking the city for the target of Ludwigshafen am Rhein near Mannheim, about 235 km north of Schaffhausen. Bad weather had broken up the American formation over France and winds that nearly doubled the groundspeed of the bombers confused the navigators. The radar systems also failed to function.…

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Women help defend the village of Vella

This content was published on Mar 7, 2014

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What’s left of the Occupy movement?

This content was published on Mar 6, 2013 They discovered that while income inequality was still a hot topic – there were only a handful of protesters left. What do the founders of the protest movement feel they achieved? (SRF/swissinfo.ch)

Iranian riot police stand guard in front of the US interest section within the Swiss embassy in Tehran in September 2012. There had been reports that Iranian Islamists were going to gather to protest against an anti-Islam film made in the US

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‘Good officer’ looks back on Tehran role

This content was published on Jan 25, 2013 The former Swiss ambassador to Iran explains why there’s always self-interest in providing services which are useful to others.

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Tinner family avoids jail

This content was published on Sep 25, 2012 In its ruling on Tuesday the Bellinzona court approved a deal agreed between the Federal Prosecutor’s office and the Tinner family, and passed a suspended sentence of two years on the father and sentences of 50 and 41 months on his sons Urs and Marco respectively for violating federal law on war materiel exports. Given…

UN chief appeals for Swiss help on key issues

This content was published on Sep 11, 2012 Citing the Swiss contribution to reforming the Human Rights Council and its championing of human rights issues within the world body, Ban said Switzerland had been an “extremely generous” UN member. And he called on Switzerland to “help us” resolve key issues facing the fractious body such as climate change, nuclear disarmament and the crisis…