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Protests mark “end of Tunisian economic miracle”

This content was published on Jan 7, 2011 Thousands of lawyers went on strike in Tunisia on Thursday, a week after a police crackdown on protests against unemployment. A Tunisian graduate whose suicide attempt last month set off the initial protests died on Wednesday. Mohammed Bouazizi, 26, set himself on fire in front of a government building in the central town of Sidi…

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Minaret vote “helped Muslim understanding”

This content was published on Jan 7, 2011 swissinfo.ch spoke to Amira Hafner-Al-Jabaji, a Swiss of Iraqi origin and one of those involved in the dialogue, about what had changed since November 29, 2009. Hafner-Al-Jabaji is president of the Interreligious Think-Tank which seeks to promote religious peace in the country and opposes fundamentalism. She told swissinfo.ch the controversial vote had merely highlighted an…

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Almost 5,000 army guns go AWOL

This content was published on Jan 6, 2011 The situation is improving, however, according to the defence ministry. In 2008, the army registered 49 missing weapons; in 2009, the number was 26. According to a report in the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper, a particularly high number of weapons went missing between 1995 and 2004, when an above-average number of soldiers were dismissed. Army spokesman Christoph…

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Almost 5,000 army guns go AWOL

This content was published on Jan 6, 2011 The situation is improving, however, according to the defence ministry. In 2008, the army registered 49 missing weapons; in 2009, the number was 26. According to a report in the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper, a particularly high number of weapons went missing between 1995 and 2004, when an above-average number of soldiers were dismissed. Army spokesman Christoph…

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Chaos and cholera hamper Haiti reconstruction

This content was published on Jan 6, 2011 “Our help in Haiti is still just a drop in the ocean. The best we can do is improve the conditions for families, quarters or whole villages,” said Alain Geiger from Swiss Solidarity, a fundraising charity led by the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, swissinfo.ch’s parent company. But the Swiss Red Cross points out that for people…

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Decline in adoption seen as a sign of the times

This content was published on Jan 6, 2011 Recent figures produced by the Federal Statistics Office show a consistent decline in the number of adoptions over the past 30 years, from 1,600 in 1980 to 500 in 2009. The figures include step-parent adoptions. The pattern of adoption has changed just as the world has changed in the intervening decades. In 1980, two-thirds of…

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Swiss farmers ask what’s for dinner in 2050

This content was published on Jan 5, 2011 However, the Swiss Farmers Association is concerned about Switzerland becoming too dependent upon foreign foodstuffs. At its annual media conference in Bern, the group looked ahead 40 years and called for the country to continue growing at least half of its own food. “Thanks to its high purchasing power, Switzerland can buy whatever it can’t…

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Swiss mourn death of pioneering politician, Emilie Lieberherr

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Experts weigh up Coptic church attack

This content was published on Jan 5, 2011 Like most eastern-rite churchgoers, Coptic Christians will be celebrating Christmas on January 7. This year Geneva police plan to provide security for the ceremony on the evening of January 6 at a Coptic church in Meyrin, canton Geneva. “Our church, like 70 other Coptic churches around the world, features on a list of a radical Islamic…

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