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Sri Lankan asylum seekers wrongly expelled

This content was published on May 26, 2014 A report released on Monday referred to a series of blunders resulting from “systemic conditions”, which led to the wrong decision being made in 2011. An external investigation into the matter was ordered after the Federal Administrative Court found the asylum applications to be valid, but only after the two men had been deported. The…

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‘Our data is the new currency’

This content was published on May 26, 2014 Nothing is for free, everybody knows that. We’ve let the beauty of the Internet fool us. We thought that everything would be freely accessible for everyone, preferably forever. It’s not. It takes skill and resources to create Internet technology, social media, websites, apps. Unless the service is understandably based on donations, there are only two…

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Swiss officers teach North Koreans how to shoot

This content was published on May 26, 2014 Since 2011, eight North Koreans have studied at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), with the Swiss defence ministry covering the costs, according to Blick. Faced with accusations of wasting taxpayers’ money, the ministry says the exercise is a useful course or the promotion of peace and security. It said it wanted to enable…

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The interpreters who make the UN’s work possible

This content was published on May 26, 2014 It’s morning and Edgington, a UN staff interpreter since 2004, is in her low-lit booth high above a huge meeting room at the UN’s Palais des Nations in Geneva, reading aloud so fast there’s almost no space between the words. “… concerns are raised by reports of an increase in cases of incitement to hatred…

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‘Advancing EU sceptics’ affect us all, say papers

This content was published on May 26, 2014 Critics of the European Union more than doubled their seats in a continent-wide protest vote against austerity and unemployment. “In a democracy, results at the ballot box should be taken very seriously for the bigger message they send. The fact is, the European Union still divides its citizens more than it unifies them and is…

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Exit members vote to broaden assisted suicide services

This content was published on May 24, 2014 That decision was anchored into Exit’s statues during the organisation’s General Assembly on Saturday in Zurich. Exit now defines assisted suicide as “the right to the freely responsible death of a very old person wishing to die”. Those very advanced in age will no longer have to prove to the same extent as younger people…

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Greenwald advocates Swiss asylum for whistleblower Snowden

This content was published on May 24, 2014 “A stable, well-off and important country like Switzerland can take Snowden in,” Greenwald said in an interview with the Tages-Anzeiger and Der Bund newspapers, adding it was the responsibility of any country benefiting from Snowden’s revelations to offer him asylum. Snowden, a former NSA contractor who fled the United States in June 2013 after leaking…

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The tricks of a Trojan

This content was published on May 23, 2014

European parties chase ‘Swiss’ vote

This content was published on May 22, 2014 Some 1.75 million people – more than a fifth of the Swiss resident population – are EU citizens, according to a study by the EU delegation in Bern. Of those, half a million are Swiss with an additional “European” passport. Not counting minors, that means 1.4 million potential voters – more than in several of…

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Cabinet adopts law for freezing dictators’ assets

This content was published on May 21, 2014 The draft law is designed to be applied in cases where leading political figures enrich themselves through corruption or other criminal means and deposit these illicitly acquired assets in Switzerland’s financial centre. It will now be debated by parliament. Following the extension in January 2014 of the freeze on the assets of members of the…

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