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Women taking at-risk contraceptive pills

This content was published on Jun 29, 2016 Gynaecologists are still prescribing contraceptive pills with a heightened risk of thrombosis.

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Swiss express shock and sympathy over Turkish bombing

This content was published on Jun 29, 2016 Switzerland has expressed its sympathies to Turkey and all those affected by a triple suicide bombing in Istanbul.

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Swiss education system judged best in the world

This content was published on Jun 28, 2016 The fourth edition of the annual reportExternal link, published on Tuesday, said Switzerland “benefits from the very high quality of its primary schools and of the education system as a whole … but also from a strong rate of vocational training and high level of skill diversity”. Switzerland was also rated the best-performing country for…

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Swiss right-to-abortion advocate dead at 78

This content was published on Jun 28, 2016 She died of acute heart failure, her family announced on Tuesday. From 1987 to 1995, she represented the leftwing Social Democratic Party in Bern’s cantonal parliament. Rey had been living in Zollikofen near the Swiss capital, Bern. Rey herself had an abortion about 50 years ago, when the procedure was illegal in Switzerland. “My contraception…

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Coming out at work

This content was published on Jun 28, 2016

Swapping sex to be the real ‘you’

This content was published on Jun 28, 2016 There was no moment where it just ‘clicked’, but when Sharon was about 50 she become aware the way she felt “had something to do with transgenderism”.

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FBI helps with Swiss kidnapping case

This content was published on Jun 27, 2016 A week after his disappearance, a 12-year-old boy has been found safe at the home of a 35-year-old man in Germany. The two met online while playing an internet game.

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Sending rejected asylum seekers home

This content was published on Jun 27, 2016 In Renens in canton Vaud, around 100 rejected asylum seekers have been camping for months. When it comes to deporting rejected asylum seekers, Vaud is the most lax canton, followed by Geneva, Schaffhausen and Zug. Nine cantons are relatively strict. But the cantons of Aargau, Graubünden, Lucerne, St Gallen, Ticino, Thurgau and Valais are stricter…

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Radioactive ex-watchmaking sites need rehab

This content was published on Jun 27, 2016 On Monday, the Federal Office of Public HealthExternal link announced that of the 130 sites it had inspected so far, 27 had unsafe levels of radium, and 12 of these had been cleaned up already. The radioactive powder came from the radium-based paint used to give watch faces a neon glow up until the 1960s.…

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Thousands attend Swiss gay pride parade

This content was published on Jun 26, 2016 Some 3,000 people marched in Fribourg’s Pride Parade – and reflected on the shooting victims at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

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