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Child protection authorities call for support

This content was published on Aug 2, 2015 The head of KESB Bern, Patrick Fassbind, told the Schweiz am Sonntag that it is time for the Swiss cabinet to step in. “We’ve been left standing out in the rain,” he said. The government and parliament wanted the new system, but “instead of supporting it, some [politicians] have jumped on the bandwagon of KESB-bashers,…

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Booming Geneva, beaming Locarno and rocky Nyon

This content was published on Aug 2, 2015 Here are the top stories we’re following in the week of August 3:

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Switzerland celebrates its 724th birthday

This content was published on Aug 1, 2015 Swiss National Day is steeped in history. Celebrated inside Switzerland and abroad: It's a time to grill sausages, paint lanterns and set off fireworks.

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Ebola vaccine shows ‘promising’ results in trials

This content was published on Jul 31, 2015 Preliminary results of tests on an Ebola vaccine trialled in Guinea have shown promising results, according to researchers at the University of Bern. They were part of an international group testing the vaccine known as rVSV-ZEBOV.

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Lausanne to host 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games

This content was published on Jul 31, 2015 The city of Lausanne in western Switzerland has been chosen to host city the 2020 Youth Olympic Winter Games by members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at a vote in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur on Friday.

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War is greatest worry for the Swiss

This content was published on Jul 31, 2015 The environment and the climate concerned 40% of the 1,311 people questioned online from July 10-20 by the LINK Institute in collaboration with Swisscom portal bluewin.ch. This was followed, in order, by stress, crime, immigration, politics, health, the economy, work, money and family/relationship, all of which worried more than 20% of the population. There were…

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Protest interrupts People’s Party campaign event

This content was published on Jul 30, 2015 About 40 activists threw smoke bombs and the police had to resort to tear gas in order to cordon off the location and bring the situation under control, as seen in a videoExternal link on the website of the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper. Police said five people were arrested. One person was slightly injured in scuffles. The…

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Human error responsible for Norwegian bus crash

This content was published on Jul 30, 2015 The bus accident that claimed the lives of four Swiss tourists in Norway in July 2014 was caused by human error, according to the investigative report released by the Norwegian authorities on Thursday. Multiple factors seemed to indicate that the German driver “was very tired and fell asleep, was distracted, or was inattentive,” the authorities…

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Nestlé India reports rare loss after noodle scare

This content was published on Jul 30, 2015 According to a company statement released on Wednesday, the net loss for the second quarter (April to June) amounted to INR644 million (CHF9.7 million) compared with a profit of INR2.8 billion the previous year. Overall sales decreased by around 20% during the difficult quarter. “The company was faced with a very unusual situation during the…

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Protesting in Switzerland

This content was published on Jul 30, 2015

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