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Media predict new Swiss immigration vote

This content was published on Feb 12, 2015 Swiss people will probably have to vote on immigration again, say newspapers.

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Government urges calm for talks on EU immigration curbs

This content was published on Feb 11, 2015 As well as approving the mandate to renegotiate the EU bilateral accord, the government has presented draft legislation for the re-introduction of quotas for EU citizens, priority hiring for Swiss residents and boosting the potential workforce within Switzerland, including older employees, women and refugees. The quotas will apply to cross-border workers and to any foreigners…

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Unemployment pushes 45,000 people to suicide a year

This content was published on Feb 11, 2015 In order to find out how suicides are connected to not having a job, researchers at the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Zurich analysed data from 63 countries between 2000 and 2011. The results, published in the scientific journal Lancet Psychiatry, showed that in those countries, some 230,000 people took their lives every year,…

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Police seize possible da Vinci painting in Lugano

This content was published on Feb 10, 2015 Negotiations to sell the oil painting of a 15th-century noblewoman, Isabella D’Este, for around €120 million (CHF126 million) were at an advanced stage, the prosecutor’s office in Pesaro, Italy, said in a statement. Police were first alerted to the existence of a possible da Vinci after a southern Italian lawyer was found in 2013 with…

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Body cameras appear on police radar

This content was published on Feb 10, 2015 Body cameras worn by police officers: technological progress that helps serve justice or an infringement of one's civil rights?

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Priest dismissed for blessing lesbian couple

This content was published on Feb 10, 2015 A Swiss priest who blessed a lesbian couple last year has been dismissed from his post for going against church doctrine.

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Keanu Reeves brought in to launch Gauguin show

This content was published on Feb 10, 2015 No artist is more indelibly tied to the South Pacific, and to Tahiti in particular, than the 19th-century French painter. Better known as an action movie star, Reeves is also an art lover. He was asked to launch the exhibition because of his ties to Polynesia. His father is a Hawaiian-born American. Basel’s Beyeler Foundation…

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Dalai Lama speaks out about fostered Tibetan children

This content was published on Feb 9, 2015 When the Chinese occupied Tibet in 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama fled, taking 10,000 Tibetans with him into Nepal and Northern India, where they lived in terrible conditions. Many exiled children went to a nursery in Dharamsala run by the Dalai Lama’s sister, while their parents were sent to road-building camps. An influential Swiss industrialist,…

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The oldest ski lift in the world

This content was published on Feb 9, 2015 The T-bar ski lift was designed by Zurich engineer Ernst Gustav Constam who registered his invention with the patent office in 1930. Four years later, the first ski lift went into operation on the Bolgen practice area in Davos. A world first, it was instantly a media sensation and attracted 70,000 skiers in its first…

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