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This content was published on Feb 1, 2016 They came to Switzerland as foreign labourers or refugees, and likely never thought they would spend their old age in the country.

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Viewpoint: Suela Kasmi of Albania

This content was published on Feb 1, 2016 Now, more than 20 years later, Kasmi works in childcare, at a center on the outskirts of Bern that offers support for mothers of small children, with a focus on programmes for immigrants. Taking part in a programme for the elderly wasn’t her idea, she says. “I was asked if I would participate. I was…

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Viewpoint: Yolanda Gama of Mexico

This content was published on Feb 1, 2016 “I’ve led maybe seven or eight roundtables on different subjects,” she says, “and I think people are interested in taking part.” Entering the programme was a logical extension of her interest in nutrition, says Gama. “I was already giving some nutrition courses for elderly Spanish-speaking people in Bern, and I thought, well, it sounds interesting,…

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World’s top chef commits suicide

This content was published on Feb 1, 2016 Violier, a citizen of France and recently of Switzerland, took over the restaurant in 2012 with his wife. The L’Hotel de Ville was named the world’s best restaurant in December by France’s La Liste, and had been awarded three Michelin stars and 19 out of 20 Gault Millau points. Members of the gastronomy community expressed their…

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Twice-kidnapped Swiss woman splits opinion

This content was published on Jan 31, 2016 “We’re dealing with a very delicate case which is very difficult to resolve,” Burkhalter admitted in Le Matin Dimanche newspaper. This is the second time Stöckli has been held hostage in Mali. In 2012, her kidnappers, the jihadist group Ansar Dine, let her go following nine days in captivity. “Her previous release was quick because…

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Swiss drop investigation of two men arrested in Geneva

This content was published on Jan 30, 2016 Criminal proceedings were opened against the two under a law prohibiting groups such as al-Qaeda and Islamic State. They denied having criminal intent and said they had only just arrived in Geneva and recently acquired the car. “The original suspicion was not confirmed,” the attorney-general’s office said in a statement. It said one of the…

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Justice minister slams ‘inhumane’ deportation vote

This content was published on Jan 30, 2016 “Historically there has only ever been one withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights: that was Greece during the military dictatorship [in 1970],” she told Le Temps newspaper on Saturday. “Is this really the example that Switzerland, the country of international humanitarian law, should follow?” She said the aim of supporters of the initiative,…

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An Eritrean festival in a Swiss church

This content was published on Jan 30, 2016 What happens when Switzerland’s sizeable Eritrean population has a round-the-clock religious festival to celebrate and nowhere to gather?

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Authorities off the hook over Flaach family tragedy

This content was published on Jan 29, 2016 Jacqueline Fehr, Zurich’s justice minister said at a media conference that this had been the conclusion of two independent reportsExternal link into the affair but that there were lessons to be learnt from the case in Flaach. Measures to further improve the Zurich child protection authorities’ work have been put forward. The Swiss child protection…

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