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Switzerland is still a draw to immigrants

This content was published on Sep 29, 2014 By the end of last year, 8,139,600 people were living in Switzerland. A total of 193,300 people immigrated to the country – out of these 26,100 were Swiss citizens and the rest were foreigners, according to the latest figures from the Federal Statistical Office. Compared to 2012, the number of immigrants rose by 10.5%. Germans…

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‘Ebola is just one of many neglected diseases’

This content was published on Sep 29, 2014 Tests with vaccines on humans to treat Ebola will probably be carried out in Switzerland. Marcel Tanner of the Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel told swissinfo.ch why it took nearly 40 years to find an antidote to the disease sweeping West Africa.

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One canton says yes to foreigners in government; another no

This content was published on Sep 28, 2014 Canton Jura has voted to allow foreigners to hold seats in government, while canton Schaffhausen said no to a proposal allowing non-Swiss to vote.

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Swiss landscape in the form of a Japanese print

This content was published on Sep 27, 2014 Last autumn three Japanese photographers and two filmmakers spent a month in Crans-Montana.

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Blatter to run for fifth FIFA presidency term

This content was published on Sep 26, 2014 Joseph “Sepp” Blatter has confirmed rumours that he will stand for a fifth consecutive term as President of the under-fire governing body of world football, FIFA.

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Legal wrangles continue over surrogate child

This content was published on Sep 26, 2014 The Federal Office of Justice says it is going to appeal a cantonal court’s decision to recognise two men as legal parents of a child born to a surrogate mother in the United States.

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Rauchzeichen

This content was published on Sep 26, 2014 In der letzten Zeit ging die schweizerische Tabakproduktion wegen härterer wirtschaftlicher Bedingungen zurück. Lediglich noch 400 Bauern pflanzen das arbeitsintensive Gewächs an. Die Mehrheit von ihnen im Broye-Tal in den Westschweizer Kantonen Waadt und Freiburg. Sie produzieren nur einen kleinen Anteil des in der Schweiz konsumierten Tabaks. (Text und Bilder: Thomas Kern, swissinfo.ch)

Asylum seekers with Ebola contact could face surveillance

This content was published on Sep 25, 2014 Asylum seekers in Switzerland who arrive from Liberia, Sierra Leone or Guinea and left one of these countries within the past 21 days are being further investigated about a potential exposure to Ebola by authorities.

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From obscurity to the CHF50 note

This content was published on Sep 25, 2014 If you look at a CHF50 bank note, you will see the face of Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Long neglected, this pioneer of modernism is now the subject of a major retrospective in Switzerland.

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Zermatt peak to be renamed after Red Cross founder

This content was published on Sep 24, 2014 The Ostspitze mountain in Zermatt will be renamed after Henri Dunant, who founded the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1863. The idea, put forward by Swiss President Didier Burkhalter, has been approved by the local commune. “Didier Burkhalter asked us some time ago whether, as a sort of present for the jubilee…

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