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Swiss mark 60 years of military presence in Korea

This content was published on Jul 26, 2013 This week André Blattman, head of the Swiss armed forces, will mark the sixtieth anniversary of the signing of the ceasefire agreement that ended the Korean War with a visit to the border at Panmunjom. While that truce brought about an end to the armed conflict, there is still no formal peace treaty between the…

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Arms sales down amid new row over plane deal

This content was published on Jul 25, 2013 Weapons manufacturers sold goods worth CHF194.9 million ($208.2 million) in the first six months of this year, according to figures published by the Federal Customs Administration on Thursday. This compares with trading worth CHF418.3 million for the same period last year. The decline is due to a slump in sales to the United Arab Emirates,…

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Pilatus deal ruffles feathers at home and abroad

This content was published on Jul 24, 2013 The PC-12 is a single-engined turboprop aircraft usually used for corporate transport and by regional airlines. It is not designed for military service, but the US air force has 21 aircraft modified for special operations, calling it the U-28A and using it notably in Africa. The 18 planes ordered last year are supposed to be…

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In the eyes of the al-Shorouk newspaper

This content was published on Jul 23, 2013 From the smaller of the two rooms, Randa attempts to organise the work and lives of 16 professional photographers. She is supervisor, friend, teacher, intermediary between publishers and photographers, and, in some cases, a substitute mother. Around ten male and female members of the photography team have gathered. The others are on assignment or at…

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Interim head of US embassy named

This content was published on Jul 23, 2013 Cellars, who speaks German, Hungarian, and Serbo-Croatian, has spent much of his career in Europe and the Middle East. He served most recently as management counsellor in Belgrade, Serbia where he oversaw the move to a new embassy. He has also worked previously in the German foreign ministry as an exchange diplomat, followed by a…

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German tax dodgers turn over new leaf

This content was published on Jul 22, 2013 The German authorities have been able to wave a big stick since purchasing a number of CDs purportedly containing sensitive Swiss bank client data. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia is a case in point. Since 2010, it has purchased four such CDs for around €9 million (CHF11.12 million) – enough to convince nearly 9,000 people…

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In Syria, balls are ‘in the air, but no juggler’

This content was published on Jul 21, 2013 Syria’s 28-month-old conflict began with peaceful protests that met a violent response from the forces of President Bashar al-Assad, gradually igniting an insurrection that has cost up to 100,000 lives. Now, one of the scenarios established at the end of June by the International Crisis Group (ICG), a Brussels-based think tank which focuses on the…

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Maurer slammed for Tiananmen Square comments

This content was published on Jul 19, 2013 Maurer, who also holds the rotating Swiss presidency for 2013, was in Beijing two months after a Chinese state visit to Bern and two weeks after Switzerland and China signed a free trade agreement. He met his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, saying he hoped to solidify the “strong level of development” between the two countries.…

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Naturalisations continue to fall

This content was published on Jul 18, 2013 Also as in past years, the largest number of those naturalised in 2012 came from Italy, followed by Kosovo and Portugal. The number of Serbians who became Swiss declined 21 per cent over the previous year. Fewer people also put in applications for naturalisation, a number that’s been on the decline since 2009. In 2008,…

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Alpine club hesitates between protection and promotion

This content was published on Jul 18, 2013 One hotly debated example is whether to allow heli-skiing – flying people in to remote mountain sites to enjoy pristine powder slopes. The SAC’s dilemma is neatly set out in its statutes: on the one hand, the club, “promotes mountain sports as an experience for a wider public”; on the other, it “lobbies for the…

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