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Four dead in Portugal-Switzerland bus crash

This content was published on Jan 9, 2017 Last March, 12 Portuguese passengers were killed in another accident when their bus, travelling from Switzerland to Portugal, collided with a truck in France. The latest accident occurred at around 4.30am on Sunday on Highway 79 in the Saône-et-Loire region of eastern France, near Lyon. It is the same stretch of road, nicknamed the “death…

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Controversial poster launched against naturalisation

This content was published on Jan 9, 2017 The poster is the latest offering by Goal, the Swiss advertising agency behind anti-foreigner and anti-Muslim propaganda used by the rightwing Swiss People’s Party in previous nationwide votes. The agency’s best-known image is of a white sheep kicking a black sheep off a Swiss flag as part of a campaign on deporting foreign criminals. The…

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Two killed by avalanches over weekend

This content was published on Jan 8, 2017 Some 1,884 people have died in avalanches in Switzerland since records began in 1936, according to Swiss public television SRF. Several thousand others have been caught up in avalanches. Friday’s victim was buried in an avalanche 400 metres long and 12 metres wide, at a height of 2,500 metres. A group of hikers managed to…

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Stories making the Swiss papers

This content was published on Jan 8, 2017 Youth pornography Prosecutors are dismayed at the rising number of pornography offences being committed by young people, reports the NZZ am Sonntag. Between 2013 and 2015 there were 200 criminal investigations against minors in Zurich alone, compared to about two dozen in the three previous years. One in five offences concerns young people filming their…

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A good year for cartoonists

This content was published on Jan 7, 2017 Swiss political cartoonists had a field day with the political upheavals of 2016.

Rare black ice on frozen Swiss lakes attracts skaters

This content was published on Jan 7, 2017 Popular mountain lakes such as Appenzell’s Seealp lake, the Lago Bianco on the Bernina Pass, and the Oeschinen lake in the Bernese Oberland have been frozen solid for days, with little snow and bitter cold resulting in a surface of smooth, black ice. It’s the second year in a row that such a phenomenon has…

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Suspected Swiss links to Berlin market attack

This content was published on Jan 6, 2017 A new criminal investigation focuses on whether the Berlin Christmas market attacker had links with people in Switzerland.

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Swiss investigate responsible business conduct for charities

This content was published on Jan 6, 2017 In an unusual move, the Swiss government will investigate a dispute between advocacy groups working in Cameroon.

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Court rules in FIFA’s favour over Qatar working conditions

This content was published on Jan 6, 2017 FIFA said in a statement on Friday that it welcomed the decision by the Commercial Court of Zurich in the case which concerned its “alleged wrongful conduct and liability for human rights violations”. The court could not immediately be reached for comment by Reuters news agency and FIFA did not give further details on the…

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Which Swiss city is home to the most foreigners?

This content was published on Jan 6, 2017 Ten cities in Switzerland comprise more than 50,000 inhabitants, with “locals” forming the majority in all of them.

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