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This content was published on Nov 13, 2013 Kennedy was shot on Friday November 22, 1963, at 6.30pm Swiss time. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung was one of the few papers at the time to run an evening edition – all the others would have had to wait until the morning before going to press with their weekend editions. This delay had the advantage,…

Freedom makes up for low wages, say farmers

This content was published on Nov 12, 2013 The poll results, presented on Tuesday as part of the 2013 federal agriculture report, said farmers were most dissatisfied with their revenue as well as having to deal with political and economic uncertainty. Farming income averaged around CHF56,000 ($61,000) in 2012, 4% less than the average of the previous three years. Revenue from other sources…

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Questions raised about NSA access to satellite station

This content was published on Nov 11, 2013 It’s difficult to miss the big satellite dishes implanted on the Leuk hillside, close to the road between Brig to Sion. Dozens of big, white dishes look expectantly up into the sky. Since Edward Snowden’s revelations, the so-called “big ears” are back in the news. “I’m certain that Switzerland has a deal with the NSA.…

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Cross-border issues cloud Geneva election result

This content was published on Nov 11, 2013 Founded in 2005, the MCG was able to secure a place at the government table at its third attempt, with lawyer and parliamentarian Mauro Poggia taking the seventh and final seat. The Left was the biggest loser, hanging on to just two ministerial positions instead of the three it had held previously. The result confirmed…

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No Iran deal in Geneva talks

This content was published on Nov 10, 2013 Six world powers and Iran agreed to resume talks on November 20. The Geneva talks showed the enormous complexity facing negotiators after a generation of mistrust between Iran and the West since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Any agreement would be a breakthrough after nearly a decade of mostly inconclusive discussions. The United States and…

University sacking attracts protest from abroad

This content was published on Nov 8, 2013 The move comes two days after the resignation of the university’s rector, Andreas Fischer, over the affair. Fischer said in a statement that he took “ultimate responsibility” for the situation and that his decision was “in the interest of the university”. Ritzmann, a professor at the university’s Institute for the History of Medicine, was dismissed…

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Lab says Arafat poisoning likely but ‘not definite’

This content was published on Nov 7, 2013 The researchers from Lausanne university hospital’s Institute for Radiation Physics said on Thursday their results “reasonably support” the theory that Arafat was poisoned with the radioactive substance. Arafat died aged 75 under mysterious circumstances at a French military hospital in 2004. The experts found concentrations of polonium 18 times higher than normal in samples, a…

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Al-Jazeera reports evidence of Arafat poisoning

This content was published on Nov 6, 2013 The scientists from the Lausanne University Hospital’s Institute of Radiation Physics wrote that “the results moderately support the proposition that the death was the consequence of poisoning with polonium-210”. The longtime Palestinian leader died aged 75 at a French hospital in 2004, but the cause of death has never been determined. No autopsy was carried…

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Farmers look to grow their solar and wind power

This content was published on Nov 6, 2013 The energy issue has become so important in recent times that we should all be concerned about it. We, as farmers, have everything required to produce clean energy on our own,” says Weber, a farmer in Val-de-Ruz, in canton Neuchâtel. In this region of the Jura mountains, where there is often a metre of snow…

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