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Swiss poll backs gay marriage over partnerships

This content was published on Oct 14, 2016 Seven out of ten people say gay couples should be allowed to get married in Switzerland rather than just have civil partnerships, a survey finds.

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Swiss facilitate release of 21 Chibok girls

This content was published on Oct 13, 2016 On Friday the Nigerian presidency said in a statement that the 21 girls were released after negotiations between Boko Haram, the ICRC and the Nigerian and Swiss governments. In April 2014, 276 school girls were taken from their secondary school in Chibok in the northeastern Borno state, where the jihadists have waged a seven-year insurgency…

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Bhumibol in Switzerland

This content was published on Oct 13, 2016 Snapshots of Bhumibol Adulyadej’s Swiss stay as well as his official visit as King of Thailand in 1960. (Images: Keystone)

The late Thai king’s youth in Switzerland

This content was published on Oct 13, 2016 “King Bhumibol discovered his passion for music in Lausanne, first as a musician and later as a composer,” reads the book “King Bhumibol and the Thai Royal Family in Lausanne.” The book contains the memories of Cléon Séraïdaris, who served the king’s family for 26 years. Bhumibol Adulyadej lived in Switzerland on and off between…

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Dalai Lama begins Swiss visit at House of Religions

This content was published on Oct 12, 2016 In Bern on Wednesday, the Tibetan spiritual leader was formally invited by the House of Religions, a meeting and worship centre for multiple religious communities, including Buddhists. It is “not an official visit” on a governmental level, as Regula Buchmüller, the head of the city of Bern’s foreign relations and statistics office told the Berner…

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The Swiss: better educated, but going grey

This content was published on Oct 11, 2016 According to the results of the 2010-2014 census presented by the Federal Statistical Office on Monday, the Swiss population has doubled in 80 years, growing from 4.1 million in 1932 to 8.2 million in 2014. But the increase varies depending on the region and its relative economic strength. Zurich, which has a population of 1.5…

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Study looks into treatment of intersex children

This content was published on Oct 11, 2016 From the 1950s children born with no clear biological gender were given surgery or hormones. A Zurich study will look into this dark chapter of medical history.

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Swiss court rejects appeal by banned Aussie Rules players

This content was published on Oct 11, 2016 The decision could herald the final chapter in the sport’s biggest doping scandal, when players of the Melbourne-based Essendon BombersExternal link were found guilty of participating in a systematic and highly dubious regime of supplements injections in 2012. In January, CASExternal link handed two-year bans to the players involved in the scandal after the World…

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Assisted suicides increase in Switzerland

This content was published on Oct 11, 2016 The latest numbers on assisted suicides in Switzerland show a 26% increase over the previous year. The vast majority of those who died by assisted suicide were terminally ill. The Federal Statistical Office reports that in 2014 Switzerland saw 742 cases of assisted suicide, more than 2.5 times as many as five years previously. In…

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Rico Zandonella named Gault Millau Chef of the Year

This content was published on Oct 10, 2016 Zandonella, from canton Ticino, was handed the toque at the “Kunststuben” in Küsnacht, canton Zurich, by Horst Petermann in 2011. The restaurant has since been renamed “Rico’sExternal link”. The Swiss edtion of the French guide on Monday praised Zandonella’s “bold and detailed” cooking, welcoming the fact that he had “shaken up the menu, rejuvenated the…

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