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Annan calls for climate justice

This content was published on Apr 22, 2008 Addressing journalists in Geneva on Tuesday, Annan, president of the new Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum, demanded united action to support the world’s poorest in adapting to climate change. The issue will be the focus of the forum’s first meeting to be held in Geneva on June 24-25, 2008. The two-day conference and workshops will bring…

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Internal security threat growing, cabinet says

This content was published on Apr 22, 2008 The cabinet on Tuesday expressed its concern at the preliminary findings contained in the interim study. It said terrorism and organised crime represented the biggest risks. “The intelligence available to judge the situation and make decisions and also to recognise hidden dangers in time is no longer sufficient and does not meet the European standard,”…

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Obama holds the edge for Swiss Americans

This content was published on Apr 21, 2008 But with primaries still to come on Tuesday in Pennsylvania, followed by Indiana and North Carolina on May 6, Hillary Clinton has vowed to fight all the way to her party’s convention in August. Clinton had the early lead in the contest, especially in states like Pennsylvania. But ahead of the latest primary, she has…

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Swiss respond to measles epidemic plea

This content was published on Apr 21, 2008 More vaccines have been sold since the government launched an appeal in March to raise the immunisation rate in Switzerland, the Federal Health Office said on Monday. “I think people have got the message that they should be vaccinated,” Jean-Louis Zurcher from the health office told swissinfo. He echoed concerns expressed by European experts that…

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Opponents warn of expensive health system

This content was published on Apr 21, 2008 A committee of parliamentarians, mainly from the Social Democratic Party, the Greens as well as the Protestant Party, said the constitutional amendment would give private health insurance companies too much power. It would also make treatments, including those in hospitals and homes, more expensive for most patients and stop unlimited access to doctors, according to…

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Economics minister prepares visit to China

This content was published on Apr 20, 2008 Officials said Leuthard would meet China’s minister of commerce Chen Deming on May 12 in Beijing. Topics to be discussed are a free trade agreement, environmental issues and protection of intellectual property rights. Leuthard is also planning to raise the issue of human rights with her Chinese counterpart. Switzerland and Beijing agreed last year during…

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Extremist incidents remain stable

This content was published on Apr 18, 2008 The number stood at 327, with 106 registered for the extreme right, and 221 for the extreme left, very slightly down in both instances. About half the incidents included acts of violence. Most of the cases involving extreme rightwingers were threats and violence directed at foreigners or left-wing extremists, and incidents at skinhead concerts and…

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Napoleon III

This content was published on Apr 18, 2008 Emperor Napoleon III of France was born 200 years ago, on April 20 1808. He spent his formative years in the area of Lake Constance, border hopping between Switzerland and Germany. A double Swiss-German exhibition commemorates his life and times.

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Sharing confiscated Yakuza funds

This content was published on Apr 18, 2008 About SFr58.4 million ($57 million) was seized in Zurich five years ago during an international investigation into Japan’s biggest yakuza crime syndicate. Susumu Kajiyama, a leading member of the Goryôkai organisation, was convicted of money laundering and extortion by a court in Japan in 2005. Switzerland provided legal assistance in the case against Kajiyama, who…

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Official blames food crisis on export subsidies

This content was published on Apr 17, 2008 Walter Fust said as well as providing emergency food aid, people had to tackle urgently the underlying causes of the crisis, such as agricultural subsidies, the growth in crops used for ethanol production, global warming and poor infrastructure. Addressing foreign journalists in Geneva on Thursday, Fust said he feared that in many of the worst-affected…

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