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Swiss defence company was sent 38kg of cocaine

This content was published on Sep 30, 2016 The discovery of drugs last September was only revealed in the 2015 annual report of Bern’s cantonal justice authorities, and the Swiss media didn’t pick up on the story until Friday. The Chilean state-owned weapons manufacturer FAMAE had sent the tanks to RUAG for an overhaul of their engines and transmission systems in 2015. The…

Education

Source of inspiration

This content was published on Sep 30, 2016 Certain MOOCS, despite sometimes having technical names, can have highly practical implications. That’s the case for the course called “Understanding microcontrollers”, given by Pierre-Yves Rochat from EPFL and Jean-Daniel Nicoud. It is very popular among students from French-speaking Africa.

‘I avoid places where the niqab is banned’

This content was published on Sep 29, 2016 More and more tourists from Arab countries, especially the Gulf, are visiting Switzerland, above all Geneva. These are the tourists who spend the most in Switzerland, on average CHF500 ($515) a day. Owing to their regular presence, their large number and their preference for luxury hotels, where they stay for longer than other guests, tourists…

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Swiss president wants to raise non-EU worker quotas

This content was published on Sep 29, 2016 Economics Minister Johann Schneider-Ammann, who holds the rotating presidency, wants to allow 2,000 more highly skilled workers from outside the European Union to work in Switzerland. In an interview on Swiss public radio SRF on Thursday, Schneider-Ammann stated that he wanted to increase the number of work permits for such workers from 6,500 to 8,500…

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Two pilots die in Swiss helicopter crash

This content was published on Sep 29, 2016 A military helicopter crashed in the central Swiss Alps on Wednesday, killing two pilots and injuring a flight assistant.

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Speed camera ‘earns’ CHF8 million in six months

This content was published on Sep 27, 2016 The camera, on the busy A2 motorway at Balerna not far from the Italian border, flashed almost 2.5 million times – around 13,600 times a day – during the first six months of the year. In 3,167 cases the offences were “moderate to serious”, the cantonal police said on Tuesday in a statement (in Italian).…

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Burka ban approved in first parliamentary chamber

This content was published on Sep 27, 2016 On Tuesday, the larger of Switzerland’s two parliamentary chambers voted 88 to 87 with ten abstentions to support the measure. In arguing against the parliamentary initiative, centre-right Radical Party parliamentarian Kurt Fluri pointed out that banning burkas – a full face and body covering with a grid covering the eyes – had nothing to do…

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Hackers leak Swiss athletes’ medical records

This content was published on Sep 23, 2016 Confidential medical records of Fabian Cancellara and Nino Schurter were made public by a hacker group that goes by the name of Fancy Bears.

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Foreign fungi take up residence

This content was published on Sep 23, 2016 Climate change and global trade means that non-native fungi are mushrooming across Switzerland.

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Wanted Algerian Islamist arrested in Switzerland

This content was published on Sep 22, 2016 The man had been under house arrest in western France but did not show up for one of his four daily check-ins with police on September 8. He was arrested on Thursday in the town of Vallorbe while attempting to ask for asylum in Switzerland. Employees at the Vallorbe asylum centre recognised him and alerted…

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