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Monitors say access to Ukraine crash site improving

This content was published on Jul 21, 2014 “[The Special Monitoring Mission SMM] was given full access to the main crash site, which was on this occasion properly cordoned off,” a statement by the Swiss-led organisation on Monday said. SSM spokesman Michael Bociurkiw reportedly said small signs of progress had been noticeable since Sunday. The international community repeatedly demanded swift access to the…

All 298 people on board Malaysia Airlines died when it crashed near the village of Hrabove in eastern Ukraine.

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Ukraine plane crash opens negotiating ‘window’

This content was published on Jul 20, 2014 “Tensions remain huge, but Thursday evening’s event [crash of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17] has also opened a window of opportunity,” Swiss diplomat Thomas Greminger, currently the OSCE’s permanent council chairman in Ukraine, declared in an interview in Sunday’s Le Matin Dimanche and SonntagsZeitung newspapers. “We haven’t had direct contact with the separatists since June 27…

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Russia requests OSCE observers at Ukrainian border

This content was published on Jul 14, 2014 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has written to Swiss President Didier Burkhalter – who’s heading the Organisation for Economic Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) this year – to invite OSCE monitors to observe two border crossings between Ukraine and Russia.

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Swiss to provide border assistance in Libya

This content was published on Jul 4, 2014 Switzerland has signed an agreement with the European Union to provide the basis for deploying a Swiss civilian border control specialist to Libya on a one-year mission, as part of the European Union Border Assistance Mission in Libya (EUBAM Libya).

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Four OSCE observers freed in eastern Ukraine

This content was published on Jun 27, 2014 After kidnapping them more than a month ago, pro-Russian separatists have released four people who had been on an observer mission for the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), among them a Swiss.

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Putin embraces OSCE peace plan

This content was published on Jun 25, 2014 Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter says the Russia is prepared to “fully” accept the peace plan for Ukraine put forth by the Swiss-led Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

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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)

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