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Media explore ‘historic’ Mühleberg closure

This content was published on Oct 31, 2013 As the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) pointed out, this was the first time in Switzerland that an electricity company had publicly announced a closure date for a nuclear power plant. Previously, BKW had said it wouldn’t keep the station near Bern in operation after 2022. “However, 2019 isn’t carved in stone yet. But it’s ideal…

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‘They have destroyed the system’

This content was published on Oct 30, 2013 The reporter and author has extensive experience covering state surveillance and privacy issues. He acted as a consultant for the German Der Spiegel magazine in their latest investigation into top secret NSA listening installations, protected from scrutiny by diplomatic immunity, which are used to conduct massive electronic listening, usually from the top floors of US…

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International centre focus of spying allegations

This content was published on Oct 30, 2013 A British investigative journalist sees similarities between this installation on the roof of the American mission in Geneva and one on the roof of the US embassy in Berlin. Documents by whistleblower Edward Snowden also mention Geneva as a spying center. Swiss public television, SRF, spoke to the British journalist Duncan Campbell on the issue. The…

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Swiss cabinet to tighten phone security

This content was published on Oct 27, 2013 While Maurer did not go into detail about the new measures, telling the Schweiz am Sonntag newspaper that the details would be made public soon, he said certain safeguards had already been in place to make sure Swiss government business stayed private. Mobile phones, for example, are currently forbidden in all cabinet meetings, and Maurer…

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How the Swiss government keeps its secrets secret

This content was published on Oct 26, 2013 The latest revelations that the US National Security Agency swept up more than 70 million phone records in France and may have tapped German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own mobile phone, have been closely followed in Switzerland. Swiss cabinet ministers use mobile phones that allows calls to be encrypted. The technology is top secret, and experts…

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State visit marks 50 years of Swiss-NZ ties

This content was published on Oct 25, 2013 Burkhalter arrived in Auckland on Friday to be greeted by New Zealand’s Foreign Minister Murray McCully before going on to meet Prime Minister John Key to discuss measures to enhance bilateral cooperation. On the agenda are talks about further cooperation between the two countries on human rights, environmental and climate change issues at the United…

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Press targets US over the spying scandal

This content was published on Oct 25, 2013 The latest revelations state that the US National Security Agency swept up more than 70 million phone records in France and may have tapped German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s own mobile phone. The scandal is set to overshadow a European Union summit in Brussels on Friday. “The United States of America and Europe face common challenges.…

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Fate of Greenpeace activists remains unclear

This content was published on Oct 23, 2013 On October 21, Weber and the others were denied bail by a court in the northern city of Murmansk. Then, on October 23, the Russians said they had reduced the activists’ charges and changed their maximum prison time to seven years from the original 15. Greenpeace called the revised charges still “wildly disproportionate” and said…

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Russian Arctic is more dangerous than the Soviet one

This content was published on Oct 23, 2013 The activists on the last but one Greenpeace ship arrested in Murmansk were the first people to bring bananas to the northern city, at the request of the son of Russian ecologist Yelena Vasilyeva: children there had never tasted the exotic fruit before. That was in October 1992. The Green movement was very young in…

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