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Nuns: powerful women of the Middle Ages

This content was published on Jul 21, 2020 An exhibition now on at the Swiss National Museum looks at how ecclesiastical women lived in the Middle Ages, and the opportunities open to them.

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Hagia Sophia’s mosque conversion has Swiss fallout

This content was published on Jul 17, 2020 Turkish government’s decision to revoke museum status of the Hagia Sophia could cost a Swiss company a lucrative contract, Turkish media reports say.

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NGOs warn conflict gold can reach Swiss refiners via Dubai

This content was published on Jul 16, 2020 Swiss refiners are under scrutiny due to the high risk of African conflict gold entering their supply chain via the United Arab Emirates.

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Investigation clears bishop in sex abuse case

This content was published on Jul 15, 2020 A Catholic bishop has been cleared of allegations that he tolerated a case of sexual abuse by a priest in his diocese in western Switzerland.

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Swiss eye ex-UEFA head Michel Platini in FIFA probe

This content was published on Jun 27, 2020 Swiss federal prosecutors are targeting former European football head Michel Platini in their probe of former FIFA president Sepp Blatter.

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Switzerland mediates in Myanmar election process

This content was published on Jun 27, 2020 Political parties in Myanmar have signed a code of conduct for peaceful elections and a fair election campaign. Switzerland served as the mediator.

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Candidates in Mongolian elections face Swiss charges

This content was published on Jun 25, 2020 Two of the candidates in the recent Mongolian parliamentary elections are under investigation by Swiss prosecutors in a case linked to mining rights.

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Swiss volunteers prefer culture and charity groups to sports clubs

This content was published on Jun 18, 2020 Community work continues to play a key role in Swiss society, but its focus has changed over the past 20 years, a study has found. Political...

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Parliament calls on voters to reject Swiss-wide burka ban

This content was published on Jun 17, 2020 Parliament has recommended that voters reject a popular initiative calling for a nationwide ban on face-covering headgear. Both chambers agree that...

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Campaigners force vote on fighter jet purchase

This content was published on Jun 17, 2020 Voters will have the final say on a CHF6 billion ($6.1 billion) package to buy new fighter jets for the Swiss airforce.

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Women across Switzerland repeat 2019 demand for greater equality

This content was published on Jun 14, 2020 Several hundred women demonstrated on Sunday in the streets of Lausanne and other towns.

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Switzerland cooperates with Vatican fraud investigation

This content was published on May 24, 2020 The justice ministry has sent documents to the Vatican as part of an investigation into suspected bribery related to a London property purchase.

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Ethical artificial intelligence: Could Switzerland take the lead?

This content was published on May 18, 2020 The debate on contact-tracing highlights the urgency of tackling unregulated technologies like artificial intelligence (AI).

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Inquiry against controversial imam abandoned

This content was published on May 5, 2020 The justice authorities have dropped an inquiry against an imam in Lucerne suspected of making controversial statements about wife-beating.

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Israeli bank hit with $900m tax evasion and football kickback penalties

This content was published on May 1, 2020 Israeli bank Hapoalim has been fined nearly $875 million (CHF849 million) by the United States for hiding $7.6 billion of undeclared assets in...

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How the coronavirus hurts the socially marginalised in Switzerland

This content was published on Apr 24, 2020 The coronavirus crisis is exacerbating social inequality in Switzerland, experts say. This in turn can become a threat to democracy itself.

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Swiss aid groups help counter fake coronavirus news

This content was published on Apr 23, 2020 In Africa and Latin America, rumours are spreading as fast as the coronavirus. Here’s how Swiss groups are trying to protect the population.

What Easter is normally like in Switzerland

This content was published on Apr 12, 2020 In Switzerland, the long Easter weekend is usually a time for festive gatherings and maybe a trip to another part of the country. Not this year.

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Most Swiss Christians don’t believe story behind Easter

This content was published on Apr 7, 2020 Almost two-thirds of Swiss Christians who took part in a survey do not believe that the Resurrection of Jesus is a historical fact.

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Controversial Swiss convert to Islam dies aged 35

This content was published on Mar 24, 2020 Nora Illi, a controversial public figure who co-founded the Swiss Central Islamic Council, died on Monday at the age of 35 after a long illness.

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What might coronavirus triage look like in Switzerland?

This content was published on Mar 17, 2020 If Swiss hospitals were to become overwhelmed, how would doctors decide who gets intensive care in the coronavirus crisis?

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Islamic Council leaders face retrial for Jihadist propaganda

This content was published on Mar 13, 2020 Switzerland’s Supreme Court has overturned the acquittal of two Islamic council  leaders accused of terrorist propaganda.

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Credit Suisse linked to list of 12,000 Nazis found in Argentina

This content was published on Mar 5, 2020 Many of the Nazi sympathisers reportedly paid money into one or more accounts at Schweizerische Kreditanstalt, which later became Credit Suisse.

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Herzog & de Meuron design first Swiss motorway church

This content was published on Feb 24, 2020 Drivers on the A13 in eastern Switzerland will be able to pull off and visit the “petrol station for the soul”.

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Cyclist admits to blood doping

This content was published on Feb 23, 2020 A Swiss cycling professional has resigned after confessing to his participation in the Aderlass doping network.

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Jägermeister logo is not religiously offensive, court rules

This content was published on Feb 17, 2020 The logo of the Jägermeister alcohol – a stag with a white cross between its antlers – can be used as a promotional brand in Switzerland.

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SWISS drops chocolate maker accused of homophobia

This content was published on Jan 30, 2020 Swiss International Air Lines has severed links with Läderach after negative headlines about the CEO’s opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion.

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Swiss president attends remembrance event at Auschwitz

This content was published on Jan 28, 2020 Simonetta Sommaruga visited Auschwitz-Birkenau on Monday for a ceremony commemorating the liberation of the concentration camp 75 years ago.

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Swiss chocolatier denies being homophobic and misogynist

This content was published on Jan 20, 2020 Johannes Läderach, an evangelical Christian, has defended his opposition to same-sex marriage and a woman’s right to have an abortion.

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Geneva mosque to be run by Swiss management

This content was published on Jan 19, 2020 Switzerland’s largest mosque, which has been embroiled in various controversies, is to come under Swiss management.

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Why Vitol boss will ‘kick butts’ to boost performance

This content was published on Jan 14, 2020 If Vitol chief executive Russell Hardy’s sole focus were the company’s profit and loss account, he would have little to worry about.

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A Nigerian with a dream becomes a priest in Switzerland

This content was published on Jan 11, 2020 As a child in rural Nigeria, Gerald Chukwudi Ani struggled to realise his dream, but now he is a priest in Switzerland.

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How should we regulate the magic of technology in the 2020s?

This content was published on Jan 10, 2020 Digital technologies offer huge potential, yet serious questions must be resolved over digital governance, especially for AI, writes Jovan Kurbalija.

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‘The Charlie Hebdo spirit has completely disappeared’

This content was published on Jan 7, 2020 The magazine survived, but neither it nor its medium are the same.

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Switzerland’s shrinking glaciers ‘make climate change visible’

This content was published on Dec 28, 2019 Scientists are battling to save ice masses from effects of warmer summer temperatures.

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Government ministers send more than good wishes with holiday cards

This content was published on Dec 26, 2019 The images and messages in the holiday cards from the seven members of the Swiss government could not be more different from one another.

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Is Switzerland a Christian nation?

This content was published on Dec 24, 2019 Although Christianity dominates the Swiss religious landscape, the Alpine country is home to a variety of other religions and sects.

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A Christmas market in a place of pilgrimage

This content was published on Dec 24, 2019 The Christmas Market in Einsiedeln, central Switzerland, is one of the most beautiful in the country.

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Swiss court upholds entry ban against former Geneva mosque guard

This content was published on Dec 20, 2019 A French-Tunisian man who worked as a guard at a Geneva mosque has been banned from Switzerland for ten years for alleged links to fundamentalists.