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Over 1,000 Kurds march in protest from Lausanne to Geneva

Kurdish people demonstrate against the Turkish military operation in the Kurdish-majority city of Afrin northern Syria,

This content was published on Feb 12, 2018 Around 1,200 Kurds began a protest march in Lausanne on Monday against the Turkish bombing of Afrine, a Kurdish enclave in Syria.

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Papers vanish on Switzerland’s secret Cold War army

This content was published on Feb 7, 2018 Top-secret documents linked to P-26, a covert Swiss Cold War paramilitary group, have been 'shredded, hidden or lost'.

President Berset surrounded by Rohingya children

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Switzerland backs Kofi Annan Rohingya report

This content was published on Feb 6, 2018 Alain Berset says Switzerland supports the full implementation of the recommendations made in the Kofi Anan Rohingya crisis report.

Anti-Trump protestors marching in Zurich

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Swiss anti-Trump protests remain peaceful

This content was published on Jan 24, 2018 Police in Zurich said about 1,000 demonstrators took part in marches on Tuesday, while leftwing organizers put the figure at 4,500. Anti-Trump rallies also took place in public squares in Lausanne, Geneva, Fribourg and Bellinzona. Protestors carried banners against Trump. Police said the protests passed off mainly peacefully, unlike violent anti-WEF protests in several Swiss…

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Trial of Tamil Tiger financiers begins in Switzerland

This content was published on Jan 8, 2018 The accused are from Switzerland, Germany and Sri Lanka. Some are former members of the World Tamil Coordinating Committee (WTCC), which represented the LTTE in Switzerland until 2009, and include its founder, his deputy and the person in charge of finances. Between 1999 and 2009, they allegedly created a complex fundraising structure which involved coaxing…

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Is there hope for diplomacy in 2018?

This content was published on Dec 29, 2017 How has the brutal conflict in Syria been allowed to drag on for seven years, and what has happened to traditional diplomacy, asks Imogen Foulkes.

Kobane broken tank with kids playing on it

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Islamic State had appropriated ammunition procured by Swiss firm

This content was published on Dec 24, 2017 The European Union funded report released on December 19 was a result of a three-year investigation by the NGO Conflict Armament Research. Entitled Weapons of the Islamic StateExternal link, the publication analysed more than 40,000 items recovered from Islamic State between 2014 and 2017. In 2015, researchers found 19 boxes of 7.62 x 54R mm ball…

Three blue barracks - known as Conference Row - connect North Korea (visible across the street) and the South.

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Korean peninsula’s ‘only impartial body’ watches and waits

This content was published on Dec 22, 2017 The Swiss military contingent on the tense border between North and South Korea is part of a neutral force in a conflict that is far from over.

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A tour of the DMZ with a Swiss guard

This content was published on Dec 22, 2017 A look at key patrol points and locations, accompanied by the so-called "noise war" between North Korean propaganda and attempts to drown it out.

The entrance area of the library and documentation centre at the United Nations in Geneva

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A rewarding visit to a quiet corner of the UN

This content was published on Dec 18, 2017 A visit to the little-known United Nations Library in the historic Palais des Nations building in Geneva.

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