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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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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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