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EXIT reports over 1,200 assisted suicides in 2018

Picture of bottle of the barbiturate Pentobarbital

This content was published on Feb 12, 2019 The Swiss assisted suicide organisation EXIT helped a total of 1,204 people end their lives in 2018.

Education

Should academics be taking the plane for short trips?

This content was published on Feb 12, 2019 The University of Basel is considering a proposal for students to take the train rather than fly for short-haul academic trips.

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More and more people opting to die at home

This content was published on Feb 11, 2019 The treatment and comfort offered dying people in Switzerland could yet be improved, according to newly-published research.

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Living with disabilities

Facilities and infrastructure for persons travelling in Switzerland with restricted mobility have greatly improved in recent years.

Uri votes for more power to control bears and wolves

This content was published on Feb 10, 2019 Nearly 70% of voters in the central Swiss canton of Uri have approved an initiative that expands its powers for regulating bear and wolf populations.

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Trafficked eels set free in Swiss lake

This content was published on Feb 8, 2019 The Federal Office for Food Safety and Veterinary AffairsExternal link released the eels in Lake Murten in western Switzerland. The ray-finned fish had been seized at Geneva Airport. The finding led to the arrest of seven men. An investigation is underway to determine the extent of the trafficking operation. The individuals illegally transported about 130,000…

Naim Cherni and Nicolas Blancho outside the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona

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Swiss attorney general appeals Islamic Council acquittals

This content was published on Feb 8, 2019 Switzerland's attorney general filed an appeal against the acquittal of two Islamic leaders who had been accused of making terrorist propaganda.

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Geneva prosecutor charged over evidence destruction

This content was published on Feb 8, 2019 The evidence is a 20-minute telephone recording, the Swiss News Agency reported on Friday, that could potentially have cleared a Senegalese woman accused by her cousin of usury and human trafficking. “This important element could absolve my client,” defence lawyer Thomas Barth said. In the recording, given to the judges by a witness, the accuser…

Culture

Art in Obscurity

This content was published on Feb 8, 2019 In 1945, the French painter Jean Dubuffet discovered Switzerland as fertile ground for his collection and research: in everyday life as well as in hospitals, prisons and psychiatric clinics he encountered people who created gestural paintings, assemblages and sensitive drawings. He used the term “art brut” (French for raw or rough art) to describe these intuitively…

Ernesto Neto

This content was published on Feb 8, 2019

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