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Foreign ministry ‘shocked’ by India rape

This content was published on Mar 16, 2013 The woman and her husband, who were on a bicycle tour in the state, were attacked by a group of seven or eight men, according to a ministry statement issued on Saturday. Swiss diplomats in India have “demanded that those responsible be quickly identified and brought before the courts,” the ministry said. The embassy in…

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Moving China’s Terracotta Army

This content was published on Mar 15, 2013 The planned Dortmund exhibition was the most comprehensive presentation to be shown outside of Switzerland. Fifteen warriors and horses, including a quadriga and many other finds, were put on display. Preparations lasted two years and the exhibition was supposed to have been staged in 1989. But then came Tiananmen. The bloody suppression of students in…

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The man who dug a well and found an army

This content was published on Mar 15, 2013 A selection of the 2,000-year-old Qin warriors, discovered in 1974 in China’s central Shaanxi province, are now on display in Bern’s history museum. swissinfo.ch tracked down Yang, who is now 75, and spoke to him by phone. It was March 1974, not long after the Chinese New Year, and as it was particularly dry at…

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Terracotta warriors arrive in Bern

This content was published on Mar 15, 2013 The museum negotiated for two years with the Chinese authorities. The exhibition ‘Qin – the immortal emperor and his terracotta warriors’ presents the enigmatic figure of the first emperor and his monumental mausoleum complex guarded by the Terracotta Army. The complex, discovered in Shaanxi Province 40 years ago, was added to the Unesco World Heritage…

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UN rights council adopts Swiss report

This content was published on Mar 14, 2013 The final report of Switzerland’s second Universal Periodic Review (UPR) – a human rights peer review exercise carried out every four years – was adopted by the 47-member Geneva-based council on Thursday. Switzerland has agreed to implement 99 out of 140 recommendations put forward by 69 states last October. The adoption of the report follows…

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New pope a ‘surprise’ package for Swiss press

This content was published on Mar 14, 2013 Zurich’s Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) summarised most commentators’ reactions when it wrote that the election result caught observers unawares. But it added that with this decision, the global church had finally recognised that the papacy could also go to a non-European. Lucerne’s Neue Luzerner Zeitung focused on the novelty in the election: the choice of…

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Ikea says Swiss shops carried contaminated cakes

This content was published on Mar 12, 2013 Earlier this month, Ikea recalled cakes from 23 countries after Chinese customs authorities found traces of coliform bacteria in them. At that time, the retailer said that the wares sold in Switzerland were not affected. Meanwhile, the Chinese authorities have destroyed nearly two tons of cake. Now it turns out that the 720 cakes offered…

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What’s protecting the pope’s Swiss Guard?

This content was published on Mar 12, 2013 The Swiss Guard has been protecting the pontiff for over 500 years. It is most recognisable for its Renaissance-style garb in the colours of the Medici family. Most of the armour of the papal security force dates back several hundred years, when people were generally smaller than they are today. There were five standard sizes…

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Catholic women look for change under new pope

This content was published on Mar 12, 2013 Fifty years after the Vatican Council promised fundamental reform, equality for women in the Church has still to be realised. But things have not stood completely still – at least in the Swiss Catholic Church where women have seized the initiative, filling vital positions in parishes and making up for the shortage of priests. Indeed,…

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