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Defining the 25% foreign population in Switzerland

This content was published on Nov 19, 2017 For the first time, Switzerland has 2 million foreigners living in its midst. But just who exactly are they? These graphics offer an explanation.

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Integration: the key to stopping extremism?

This content was published on Nov 19, 2017

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A Swiss photography legend among machines

This content was published on Nov 18, 2017 A new exhibition features 140 photographs by Swiss photography legend Jakob Tuggener, all on the theme of machines and industry.

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Balzan Prize winners honoured

This content was published on Nov 17, 2017 Doris Leuthard, who holds the rotating role of Swiss President this year, said society and the economy would in future depend on new ways of thinking as its adapts to developing technologies and changes its approach raw materials and waste. Indian national Bina Agarwal, from the University of Manchester in Britain, won the “Gender Studies” prize…

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Baloch activist Mehran Marri deemed security threat by Swiss police

This content was published on Nov 17, 2017 Swiss authorities have confirmed that an entry ban has been issued against Marri who was detained at the Zurich airport on Thursday and sent back to the UK where he resides. “Fedpol [Swiss Federal Police] can issue entry bans when it believes that a person is a threat to the country’s security,” a spokesperson for…

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Record Da Vinci painting seller will not withdraw case against Swiss art dealer

This content was published on Nov 17, 2017 On Friday, Rybolovlev’s Paris-based lawyer Hervé Témime told the Swiss Press Agency STA that Bouvier had “duped” his client. “He made them believe that he had negotiated the purchase price with the [former] owner while he was doing it for his own benefit and betraying their interests and his mandate, in order to cash $44.5…

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‘I immediately realised my wife was dead’

This content was published on Nov 17, 2017 Stephan Kopp survived the attack on November 17, 1997, but his wife was one of 36 Swiss tourists who didn't.

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Saudi funder announces plans to reform Geneva mosque

This content was published on Nov 17, 2017 In an interview with the Tribune de Genève paper on Friday, the secretary general of MWL Mohammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa said that he will constitute a new board of the Islamic Cultural Foundation of Geneva, which manages the Geneva mosque in Petit-Saconnex. MWL underwrites a substantial part of the mosque’s finances. Al-Issa said that…

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Tamil street food, all chopped up

This content was published on Nov 16, 2017 Tama meets up with a friend who makes Sri Lankan street food

Cambodia s King Norodom Sihamoni greets Beat Richner

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Swiss children’s doctor honoured by Cambodian king

This content was published on Nov 16, 2017 The sustainable continuation of the Kantha Bopha hospitalsExternal link, which treat sick children for free, is of great importance for Cambodia’s health system, said King Norodom Sihamoni on Wednesday at a ceremony for the 25th anniversary of the hospitals. Zurich-born Richner, also well known in Switzerland by his nickname of Beatocello, sadly could not be…

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