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The controversial war graves memorial in a Chur graveyard.

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War graves monument with Nazi links found in Switzerland

This content was published on Jan 27, 2023 A monument to German war dead, with links to Nazi sympathisers, is found in the Swiss city of Chur.

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Court says ‘blackfacing’ incident was not racist

This content was published on Jan 22, 2023 A court in Appenzell has dismissed a racism case against a yodeller who painted his face black and pretended to be African.

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Jihadist attacker gets 20 years for murder

This content was published on Jan 10, 2023 The Federal Criminal Court has handed down a 20-year prison sentence to a Turkish-Swiss man who stabbed a Portuguese man to death.

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Bernese imam resigns after forced marriages scandal

This content was published on Jan 5, 2023 Mustafa Memeti, responsible for the mosque in the Swiss capital’s House of Religions, has announced he will stand down at the end of April.

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Romansh-speaking Switzerland loses two municipalities

This content was published on Dec 27, 2022 The two municipalities of Surses and Muntogna da Schons in the eastern canton of Graubünden are now part of German-speaking Switzerland.

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Army to help with accommodation for refugees

This content was published on Dec 16, 2022 The Swiss army will provide the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) with additional accommodation to cope with an influx of refugees.

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Deportation policy questioned after suicide of Afghan asylum-seeker

This content was published on Dec 9, 2022 Some 500 people demonstrated in Geneva to express anger and sadness after an 18-year-old Afghan asylum-seeker took his own life last week.

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War and sport dominate Swiss Google searches in 2022

This content was published on Dec 7, 2022 The war in Ukraine and sporting events had people heading for search engine Google more than anything else this year.

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Swiss crash out of World Cup after ‘Debacle of Doha’

This content was published on Dec 7, 2022 The Swiss media are rather unimpressed by Switzerland's 6-1 hammering by Portugal at the World Cup in Qatar.

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Freeriders urged to stick to marked zones

This content was published on Dec 6, 2022 The number of fatal accidents while freeriding – skiing off-piste – doubled last year compared with the average of previous years.

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