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Carla del Ponte joins UN Syria commission

This content was published on Sep 28, 2012 Del Ponte, who has also served as a Swiss ambassador and federal prosecutor, was named on Friday to serve on the commission alongside Vitit Muntarbhorn, a Thai expert and veteran UN investigator, American Karen Abuzayd and Brazilian Paulo Pinheiro. The international inquiry, led by Pinheiro, was set up a year ago, and is gathering evidence…

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Erasmus strives to widen Swiss horizons

This content was published on Sep 27, 2012 Switzerland is a popular – albeit expensive – destination but Swiss students lag behind in terms of interest.

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Vitol oil trade spotlights Swiss sanctions

This content was published on Sep 26, 2012 Vitol, the world’s largest oil trader, reportedly bought two million barrels of fuel oil from Iran in August 2012 and offered it to buyers in China, according to a report by Reuters published on Wednesday. Before offering the oil to the Chinese traders, the company allegedly blended it with fuel oil from Europe, concealing its…

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Swiss president hones in on Syria, UN reforms

This content was published on Sep 26, 2012 Widmer-Schlumpf said Switzerland had been watching the worsening situation in Syria with great concern at the violation of human rights. “Innocent people are dying, caught in the crossfire between the Syrian army and the armed opposition,” she said. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon began the assembly by demanding an end to the Syrian civil war, which…

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Old battles celebrated in Swiss streets

This content was published on Sep 26, 2012 All signatories to the Unesco Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage are obliged to make such a list. Ethnologist Ellen Hertz of Neuchâtel University, one of the leaders of a research project looking into the approach Switzerland has taken in fulfilling this obligation, told swissinfo.ch of the thinking behind it. “Switzerland, like other…

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E-health is no cure-all

This content was published on Sep 25, 2012 One of the advantages of digital data is that it is cheaper, unambiguous and permanent. Hurriedly scribbled doctors’ notes that are hard to decipher, as well as yellowing paper and fading photographs, X-rays or ultrasound imaging will soon cease to exist. Tools such as computerised physician order entry systems and electronic health records promise to…

Digital patient data – good idea, hard sell

This content was published on Sep 25, 2012 The idea is attractive: authorised health professionals such as physicians, pharmacists, insurers and health authorities, as well as the patients themselves, would be able to access medical reports, images and prescriptions around the clock. The system is set to improve treatment by speeding up diagnosis, preventing unnecessary examinations and multiple prescriptions. An impact analysis showed…

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New weapons may “present a slippery slope”

This content was published on Sep 24, 2012 Chemical weapons grabbed the headlines recently when the Syrian government warned that it could draw on its stockpile if outsiders intervened in the ongoing civil war, an announcement that drew widespread condemnation. These kinds of weapons were last used in Iraq against civilian populations with devastating results under Saddam Hussein in the late 1980s. Mogl,…

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Working to counter weapons of mass destruction

This content was published on Sep 24, 2012 On one side of the motorway, the picture-perfect town of Spiez and Lake Thun. On the other, an industrial zone that backs on to forests and the mountains of the Bernese Alps. It’s there, squeezed between sporting fields, that the national institute for NBC protection hides. For those looking for a super-secure military site or…

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Weapon stockpiles at a glance

This content was published on Sep 24, 2012

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