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Court orders case against Mubarak to be resumed

This content was published on Aug 24, 2016 As a result, some CHF590 million ($613 million) in assets of the Mubarak family, frozen in Swiss bank accounts since 2011, will remain blocked. The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the state prosecutor had not respected the formal procedure when it decided to close the case in June 2015 following four years of investigations. It…

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Swiss poised to take 200 more refugees from Italy

This content was published on Aug 24, 2016 Migration officials are currently reviewing the 200 cases of Syrian, Iraqi and Eritrean people who have claimed asylum in Italy. “If all checks are successfully completed then these asylum seekers may enter in September,” Lea Wertheimer, spokeswoman for the State Secretariat for Migration told SRF. Switzerland has pledged to receive a total of 900 people…

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Who’s behind the murder of Kem Ley?

This content was published on Aug 23, 2016 Hundreds of thousands of people participated in the funeral celebrations for Cambodia’s most prominent democracy advocate and government critic Kem Ley, who was assassinated in July. People of all social classes, age groups and coming from the diifferent provinces of the country accompanied the funeral procession from Phnom Penh to his native village 70km south…

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First overseas ban for Swiss-based private security firm

This content was published on Aug 23, 2016 According to Swiss public radio, SRF, the firm affected by the ban intended to train foreign soldiers and provide logistical support to military forces. The ban was imposed by the Swiss foreign ministry a few weeks ago, but the name and the reasons behind the veto have been withheld, it reported. The law governing the…

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Switzerland and Italy seek better coordination over Europe

This content was published on Aug 22, 2016 Addressing an audience of 320 Swiss diplomats, including Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, gathered at the UN on Monday morning, Italy’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Paolo Gentiloni gave a long speech in Italian extending his gratitude. “Thank you, Didier, for inviting me to such an important meeting,” said the Italian minister. “I consider this an…

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Weapons trade rules ‘need global cooperation’

This content was published on Aug 22, 2016 Opening the second conference of the ATT in Geneva on Monday, Schneider-Ammann emphasized that the job of implementing the deal is now at hand following a first administrative phase to get it underway. World military expenditure rose 1% to reach $1.7 trillion (CHF1.6 trillion) in 2015, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Switzerland…

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The climatic metamorphosis of a city

This content was published on Aug 22, 2016 Images of parts of Sion before and after adaptive measures for climate change.

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The climatic metamorphosis of a city

This content was published on Aug 22, 2016

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Swiss optimistic about Brexit effect

This content was published on Aug 21, 2016 The results of the report, carried out by the gfs.bern research instituteExternal link as part of the Credit Suisse Worry Barometer 2016, largely go against warnings from observers and experts that Brexit’s effects would be negative for Switzerland. In all, 55% of respondents believe that benefits are likely or could even be major for the…

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Centre party joins the religious freedom debate

This content was published on Aug 20, 2016 At the partyExternal link’s summer meeting on Saturday in Appenzell, leader Gerhard Pfister said that a debate about values had to take place. It was only right to do so in this time of terror attacks in Europe, the migration crisis and the attacks on “the western way of life”. We have been too tolerant…

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