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Pressure mounts over frozen Mubarak funds

This content was published on Dec 4, 2014 “The judgment is not helpful,” Gretta Fenner, corruption expert and director at the Basel Institute on Governance, told the Swiss News Agency. It will now be more difficult to prove that the money belonging to the Mubarak clan was illegally obtained, she said. The Swiss government froze some CHF700 million ($716 million) in assets in…

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Stepfamilies are a challenge for “Samichlaus”

This content was published on Dec 4, 2014

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The village that disappeared

This content was published on Dec 2, 2014 (Luigi Iorio, swissinfo.ch/Photos: Bodhi Garret)

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The horror relived

This content was published on Dec 2, 2014

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Snooping scandal leads to police shake-up

This content was published on Dec 2, 2014 A special parliamentary commission (PUK) was set up to investigate claims that the department of justice and the federal police, charged with intelligence gathering, had secretly kept more than 900,000 files on Swiss citizens and foreigners.Organisations, companies and various political groups, especially left-leaning ones, were also targeted. It emerged that information had been supplied by…

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One Novartis flu vaccine cleared, one still waiting

This content was published on Dec 1, 2014 A probe was being conducted into two batches of the vaccine, Fluad, after three people in Italy died after being administered it as a vaccination. Further similar incidents were reported as the news spread throughout the country. On Monday, the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) said “the results of the tests confirm the safety of the…

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Predicting the future isn’t all in the genes

This content was published on Dec 1, 2014 Researchers from the University of Geneva’s medical faculty and the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics studied the genetic informationExternal link of 400 pairs of monozygotic (identical) and dizygotic (fraternal) twins to try to determine whether the risk of developing a disease is related to genetics or environment or both. Genetic information from the pairs of monozygotic…

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Novartis flu jab temporarily banned in Italy

This content was published on Dec 1, 2014 The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Turin has begun an investigation into the flu vaccine Agrippal, adding to a probe already being conducted into two batches of the vaccine Fluad. The decision has come after a series of 13 deaths in Italy in people who had been given a flu vaccination. The Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA)…

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Switzerland has highest number of immigrants

This content was published on Dec 1, 2014 The foreigners who settled permanently in Switzerland in 2012 comprised 1.6% of Switzerland’s population in that year. Switzerland is followed by Norway with 1.2% and Australia with 1.1%. In comparison, the largest OECD immigration country, the United States, had a share of permanent immigrants of 0.3% in 2012. Most of the immigrants to Switzerland came…

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