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Give peace a space, say Bern activists

This content was published on Apr 6, 2015 Some 450 people took part in Bern’s Easter march on Monday. They called for solidarity with refugees as well as a halt to Swiss arms exports.

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The complex case of Tunisia’s blocked funds

This content was published on Apr 6, 2015 Four years after the fall of Tunisian dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the country is still chasing the fortunes stolen by the disgraced leader.

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Ex-ambassador sees economic potential in Iran

This content was published on Apr 5, 2015 Livia Leu Agosti, who was ambassador to Iran from 2009 to 2013, told the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper that although it was hard to estimate the potential for Swiss companies in Iran, it is a rich and large country with 80 million relatively well-off inhabitants. “The economy remains strongly controlled by the state and is…

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The Iran nuclear roadmap

This content was published on Apr 3, 2015 The agreement is an obvious accomplishment for diplomacy, but there are obvious sceptics who could block any final document, says Daniel Warner.

Swiss-based voices react to Iranian nuke deal

This content was published on Apr 3, 2015 Switzerland has welcomed the agreement hammered out in Lausanne on the Iranian nuclear programme, yet others are wary.

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Government fine tunes plan to retain multinationals

This content was published on Apr 2, 2015 The Swiss government has backtracked on parts of its planned corporate tax reform following objections from cantons.

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Politicians neglect potential of Twitter and Facebook

This content was published on Apr 2, 2015 Six months ahead of October’s federal elections, social media have not yet made much of a breakthrough among candidates.

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Afghan family leaves Switzerland with Italian guarantees

This content was published on Apr 1, 2015 According to a ruling by the Strasbourg court in November, Switzerland would violate Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights if it were to send the family back to Italy under the Dublin agreement without having first obtained individual guarantees from the Italian authorities that applicants would be properly looked after and the…

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Testing the limits of a 160-year-old dream

This content was published on Apr 1, 2015 The ragged paupers who first came to Guglera in the middle of the 19th century had a long walk up the driveway to get to the big house. So great was their need, they came before the building was even finished. The four-storey orphanage and school stood for more than a century, as generations came…

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Authorities confirm first ever deportation by sea

This content was published on Mar 29, 2015 The asylum seeker in question was a Moroccan national who had twice refused to return to his country of origin by plane, stated an SEM spokesperson referring to an article published in the Sunday edition of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper. With assistance from French and Moroccan authorities the unsuccessful asylum seeker was sent to…

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