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Different continent, same virus: how families are coping

This content was published on Mar 30, 2020 Families separated by oceans are finding comfort in their shared experience under the strain of the coronavirus pandemic.

Edelweiss plane landing at Zurich airport

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Swiss tourists flown home from South America and Africa

This content was published on Mar 25, 2020 The first flights carrying Swiss tourists stranded in different parts of the world have arrived at Zurich airport.

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How to become Swiss

This content was published on Mar 4, 2020 If you have a connection to Switzerland through your family and want to make it official by becoming Swiss yourself – this is how you can go about it.

All fired up – with Swiss army rifles in America

This content was published on Mar 3, 2020 Swiss rifles were coveted during the American revolutionary and civil wars. Today they’re used for fun by the Swiss Rifle Club of Minneapolis.

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‘Holy cow!’ This Swiss never thought he’d be a cop in the US

This content was published on Mar 3, 2020 Two decades ago, Adrian Hoesli followed his father to America for a fresh start. Though they don’t see eye to eye on guns, both share Swiss values.

A woman wears a protective face mask near the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, France, 15 February 2020.

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More Swiss leave Wuhan

This content was published on Feb 21, 2020 A further five Swiss citizens and two of their Chinese relatives have been flown out of the Wuhan region, the hub of the coronavirus, SRF says.

Did you ever go on holiday to the Swiss Abroad Home?

This content was published on Jan 31, 2020 Between 1956 and 1979 a holiday camp was run in northern Switzerland for the Swiss Abroad. Did you ever spend a holiday in Dürrenäsch?

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Switzerland hopes to repatriate citizens from China at the weekend

This content was published on Jan 31, 2020 France has offered to fly the ten people to Marseilles where they will be quarantined for 14 days when they arrive. Officials said that all Swiss citizens in China are healthy and reiterated that there are no cases of Coronavirus in Switzerland so far. The Swiss foreign ministry said there are more than 4,000 Swiss…

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Rules about handling of expat Swiss data to change

This content was published on Jan 15, 2020 The government wants to make it easier for the foreign ministry to process data about expatriate Swiss citizens to ease consular services.

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Swiss mom an ‘unofficial cultural ambassador’ in America

This content was published on Jan 4, 2020 She kept dreaming of being on a plane that never reached its destination. Those dreams stopped about a year after moving to Colorado.

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