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Eritreans in Switzerland come under scrutiny

This content was published on Jun 9, 2016 On Wednesday UN human rights investigators accused Eritrean leaders of crimes including torture, rape, murder and enslaving up to 400,000 people. They called for the case to be referred to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Atrocities had been committed since the country’s independence in 1991 and were continuing, the UN Commission of Inquiry said in…

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Jets collide from Swiss Patrouille display team

This content was published on Jun 9, 2016 The Swiss defence ministry said on Friday that two teams had been dispatched to the Netherlands, comprising flight safety specialists and a care team for the pilots. The pilot of the plane that crashed ejected before impact and landed in a greenhouse, said Air Force Commander Aldo Schellenberg at a media conference on Thursday. He…

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Artificial intelligence predicts Euro 2016 match results

This content was published on Jun 9, 2016 The website kickoff.aiExternal link was launched on June 7 by three PhD students at the Lausanne Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) and is targeted at football lovers. “All three of us are football fans and we wanted to apply machine learning to a new data set,” Victor Kristof, one of the brains behind kickoff.ai, told…

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Buskers Bern 2015

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Experts help Geneva free port crack down on stolen loot

This content was published on Jun 8, 2016 “We cannot wait for the Swiss customs to deploy sufficient people to carry out checks on artefacts stored here. It’s too risky, so we are introducing our own measures,” David Hiler, president of Geneva Free Port, told reporters on Wednesday. From summer, anyone wanting to store ancient artefacts in the sprawling warehouse facility in southwest Geneva…

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Two Calabrian mafia members to be extradited to Italy

This content was published on Jun 8, 2016 The Italian extradition requests are based on a judgement released in October 2014 by a Calabrian court. The two Italian citizens had been sentenced in their absence to nine and six years in prison respectively. The justice office said in a statement on Wednesday that the conditions for extradition had been fulfilled. The two Italians…

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Gotthard Tunnel: dancing haystacks not whirling dervishes

This content was published on Jun 8, 2016 The recent opening ceremony for the world’s longest rail tunnel has had an amusing epilogue.

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Motorists spent 22,000 hours stuck in traffic in 2015

This content was published on Jun 7, 2016 The number of hours spent in traffic jams in Switzerland rose by 6% last year, compared to 5% in 2014. Overloaded roads were the chief cause of blockages.

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Report finds prejudice over skin colour, religion

This content was published on Jun 7, 2016 Of the 239 incidents where victims sought advice from last year, 47% involved the working world – the largest percentage of all settings where racism occurred. The percentage is virtually unchanged from the previous year. In comparison, there were fewer reported incidents of racism in public, but an increase in cases in the private sphere.…

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