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Geneva to offer key official documents in English

This content was published on Feb 10, 2016 The city of Geneva has decided to provide key administrative documents and public information in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Albanian and Arabic to help new residents integrate. Previously, many of these documents had been available only in French.

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Swiss jobless rate low by international comparison

This content was published on Feb 10, 2016 How does Switzerland's six-year-high unemployment rate compare with some of the major economies around the world?

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Union sounds alarm bells over labour conditions

This content was published on Feb 10, 2016 Presenting a manifesto for the launch of their nationwide campaign, Unia leaders on Wednesday urged politicians to protect care staff from cost-cutting measures and inhumane labour conditions. Union members criticised that it was increasingly difficult to spend enough time with patients due to time pressure and bureaucratic work. The union also wants to increase the…

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Should schools be neutral zones for religion?

This content was published on Feb 10, 2016 School prayer rooms for Muslims: pragmatic solution or step in the wrong direction?

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Müslüm: Integration through comedy

This content was published on Feb 10, 2016 Swiss public television, SRF1, is airing new series this spring looking at the country’s comedy scene. “MüslümTv” is one of the shows in the series. Müslüm is the stage name of Semih Yavsaner, a Bern musician and comedian of Turkish origin. The political satire programme follows anti-hero Müslüm as he tries to put together a…

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Wikipedia blocks Swiss officials over editing

This content was published on Feb 9, 2016 The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has blocked the accounts of Swiss civil servants after they modified thousands of articles on the site.

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Twin births have almost doubled since the 1970s

This content was published on Feb 9, 2016 In Switzerland, the rate increased from 8.8 twin births per 1,000 births in 1970 to 16.4 in 2005, according to a studyExternal link published on Monday in the journal Population and Development Review. The rates varied considerably: in Denmark in 1975 there were 9.6 twin births per 1,000, in 2011 there were 22.2. In Chile,…

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New Year’s Eve assaults trigger investigations

This content was published on Feb 9, 2016 Around two dozen thefts were initially reported to police, said to have taken place in the area around Lake Zurich on December 31, 2015. As the complaints were being investigated, it turned out that a number of them contained a sexual element. The women involved said they were robbed and groped or molested through their…

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Swiss prosecutor supports Russian intervention in Syria

This content was published on Feb 8, 2016 In speaking with Swiss Public Television RTS on Monday, Del Ponte said that “globally, I think Russian intervention is good, because then someone is attacking these terrorist groups…[such as] ISIS and al-Nusra”. However, she added that based on what is known, the Russians make “a bit too little distinction between terrorists and others…which is not…

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Switzerland introduces Zika-related blood quarantine

This content was published on Feb 8, 2016 “This quarantine period, during which we will not take blood donations from potentially affected people, is the same as for any other tropical disease,” Rudolf Schwabe, director of the national blood donation organisation Swiss Transfusion, told the Swiss News Agency. “This measure is simpler and less expensive than testing all of the blood samples concerned.” …

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