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Environmental alliance calls on Switzerland to encourage sustainable travel

This content was published on Apr 9, 2018 Switzerland must make climate-friendly modes of travel more attractive, an environmental group said Monday in an open letter.

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What the Swiss do for their benches

This content was published on Apr 8, 2018 Benches are considered cultural heritage in Switzerland. But as the state saves money, the private sector is increasingly having to step in.

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Record number of reported discrimination incidents in Switzerland

This content was published on Apr 8, 2018 The number of reported cases of discrimination based on ethnicity, colour and religion has increased by half in 2017 compared to the year before.

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Unauthorised Swiss demo by Kurds for Afrin ends in chaos

This content was published on Apr 8, 2018 Around 400 demonstrators responded to the call of leftist factions to protest against the Turkish intervention in Afrin in northwestern Syria. They were also protesting against Swiss arms exports that they felt was fuelling wars all over the world. After marching from the train station to the parliament square and back, the parade was surrounded…

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Janina Kauz: ‘In London, the world is on my doorstep’

This content was published on Apr 8, 2018 Janina Kauz, a 23-year-old Swiss expat, could hardly have chosen a better location for her studies in intercultural communication than London.

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Young Italians seek their fortunes in Switzerland

This content was published on Apr 8, 2018 Italians now make up the largest foreign population group in the Alpine country. Giulio Sovran, an architect, came to Switzerland six years ago and started the group “Goodbye Mamma!”, to support and advise fellow Italians. It now has 25, 000 members.

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Swiss engineer arrested for illegal anti-drone system sales

This content was published on Apr 7, 2018 A Swiss engineer and an Italian entrepreneur were arrested in Rome by the financial crime police for illegally producing and selling anti-drone systems. According to the Italian news agency AdnKronos on Saturday, the “drone ranger” systems were sold to the armed forces of certain Middle Eastern countries. They can detect, track and neutralise Unmanned Aerial…

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In the footsteps of Louis de Boccard

This content was published on Apr 7, 2018 It was curiosity and luck that led Nicolas Savary to the findings of Louis de Boccard, who left his Swiss home to explore South America in 1889.

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How Swiss firefighters train to handle snakes

This content was published on Apr 7, 2018

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Court dismisses case against 14 ex-heads of bankrupt Swissair

This content was published on Apr 6, 2018 A Zurich court has rejected a case brought by the liquidators of former airline Swissair against 14 ex-directors of the company.

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