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Schmid explores military missions in Africa

This content was published on Nov 29, 2007 Parliament earlier this year called for an increase in the number of Swiss soldiers on peacekeeping mission abroad. Schmid met Mali’s president, Amadou Toumani Touré, in Bamako on Wednesday for talks focusing on peace promotion in Africa and on an uprising led by Tuareg nomads in northeastern Mali. The authorities in Bamako are interested in…

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Breakthrough announced at Middle East talks

This content was published on Nov 27, 2007 Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas made the pledge on Tuesday at the Middle East summit in Annapolis. A joint statement read by Olmert, Abbas and President Bush said the talks to start next month would be the first serious and substantive negotiations in seven years. “We express our determination to…

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Election campaign 2007

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Parliamentary elections 2007

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Swiss discuss use of “torture” weapon

This content was published on Nov 26, 2007 The UN Committee against Torture recently judged Tasers to be a potentially lethal form of torture and urged Portugual to reconsider arming its police with them. “The use of these weapons causes acute pain, constituting a form of torture,” the committee said at the end of its 39th session in Geneva. “In certain cases they…

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Rightwing party unable to consolidate gains

This content was published on Nov 25, 2007 In canton Zurich, the People’s Party president, Ueli Maurer, was unable to win the seat previously held by party colleague Hans Hofmann. Instead, Verena Diener of the recently formed liberal Greens who was also a long-time member of the cantonal government won Zurich’s second Senate seat. The first seat was taken by Felix Gutzwiller of…

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Voters give Zurich airport wings

This content was published on Nov 25, 2007 In other regional votes on Sunday, the people of St Gallen approved plans to make the eastern city the first in Switzerland to allow surveillance cameras to be installed in public places. The initiative to limit flight movements to 250,000 a year and extending a night ban at Zurich airport was launched in 2004. It…

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Swiss troops to stay in Kosovo come what may

This content was published on Nov 20, 2007 Switzerland’s defence ministry said on Tuesday that Swiss peacekeeping troops would remain in Kosovo, even in the event of a unilateral independence declaration. After his most recent visit to the Serbian province in August, Defence Minister Samuel Schmid said the mandate of the Swiss troops would be called into question in such a change of…

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Elections

This content was published on Nov 20, 2007

UN sports advisor champions fair play

This content was published on Nov 17, 2007 In an interview with swissinfo, Ogi looks back on his time at the UN and talks about the positive role of sport. He assesses the Swiss political climate and says it’s time to get positive about the Euro 2008 football championships. Ogi’s international efforts have borne fruit. Over the past seven years the UN has…

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