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Syrian migrant who lost baby on train journey gets asylum

This content was published on Sep 5, 2014 A Syrian woman who controversially experienced a miscarriage on a train sending her back to Italy through Switzerland has received asylum in Italy along with her family.

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The new UN development goals, still missing the point

This content was published on Sep 5, 2014 That it came insteadExternal link from Jan Vandemoortele, a Belgian economist who helped create the United Nations MDGs in the first place, raises questions whether propagating a single set of targets to drive government policy across the entire developing and emerging world is worth doing at all. The “sustainable development goalsExternal link”, successors to the MDGs,…

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Development goals: tackling poverty’s root causes

This content was published on Sep 5, 2014 Gerber is coordinating Switzerland’s post-2015 development positionExternal link at national (see infobox below) and international levels. A set of so-called Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)External link are emerging to take the place of the controversial MDGs. swissinfo.ch: There are now less than 500 days to go before the MDGs expire. There has been an enormous amount…

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Cabinet rejects headscarf ban in passport photos

This content was published on Sep 4, 2014 The Swiss cabinet has advised parliament not to adopt a motion to ban women from wearing veils in their passport photos.

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Swiss fast-track asylum process advances

This content was published on Sep 3, 2014 On Wednesday the cabinet officially presented its revised draft asylum law to parliament for consideration. Faced with a rising number of asylum seekers, Switzerland is keen to dramatically cut down the average application processing time for the majority of cases from an average of 700 days to around 100. Under the proposed new regime, asylum…

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Cabinet pushes for overhaul of armed forces

This content was published on Sep 3, 2014 Presenting the cabinet’s proposals on Wednesday, Defence Minister Ueli Maurer said the aim was to be able to mobilise and fully equip up to 35,000 soldiers within ten days. Such a mechanism was in place during the Cold War era but later suspended. The overhaul includes the acquisition of transport vehicles, drones as well as…

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Politician hangs onto job, defying nude selfie critics

This content was published on Sep 3, 2014 Geri Müller, who is also a parliamentarian representing the Green Party in the House of Representatives, was suspended from his mayoral duties in Baden, a town outside Zurich, after the situation became public in mid-August. He now says he intends to return to work on Monday. Müller, 53, had sent nude photos of himself to…

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WEF warns Switzerland about dangers of populism

This content was published on Sep 3, 2014 As in previous years, Switzerland benefits from the transparency of its institutions, its innovation and research capacity, excellent cooperation between the private and public sectors, an efficient labour market, its education system and infrastructure, said the WEF, in its annual competitiveness reportExternal link published on Wednesday. However, this year the Geneva-based organisation warned that the…

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Swiss finish returning funds to Austria and Britain

This content was published on Sep 1, 2014 Over a one-year period, almost £470 million (CHF715 million) were returned to Great Britain and almost €740 million (around CHF890 million) to Austria. “With these payments, Switzerland has fulfilled its obligation under the tax treaties with the two countries,” said the Federal Tax Administration on Monday. “The ‘regularisation of the past’ is complete.” In order…

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‘The inconceivable as reality’ – 75 years later

This content was published on Sep 1, 2014 September 1, 1939: German soldiers invade Poland; two days later, Britain and France declare war on Germany. Thus began WWII, a conflict “infinitely more bloody and terrible” than WWI, as one Swiss paper put it.

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