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Calls for women’s army service fall on deaf ears

This content was published on Apr 24, 2015 Public opinion and practical realities mean getting more women to join the Swiss army is easier said than done.

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Anniversary of wartime slaughter of Armenians

This content was published on Apr 23, 2015 On April 24, 1915, the Ottoman authorities rounded up and arrested and killed some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. Armenians say this was the start of the “planned extermination” of up to 1.5 million Armenians people by the Ottoman Turks between 1915 and 1918. Turkey acknowledges that many Armenians died within the…

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Swiss keep low profile on Armenian genocide

This content was published on Apr 23, 2015 Several high-level delegations will take part in the centenary commemoration of the Armenian genocide in Yerevan but Switzerland will only being represented by its ambassador. This, along with a stalemate over a victims’ memorial in Geneva has angered Armenians in Switzerland.

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Switzerland pulled into Hawaii sovereignty battle

This content was published on Apr 23, 2015 The Swiss man, who wishes to remain anonymous, wants the Swiss government to try the Hawaiian state for the criminal offense of “pillaging” under a complex legal technicality – the passive personality jurisdiction – that allows countries, in certain cases, to try a foreign national for offenses committed abroad that affect its own citizens. The…

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Ambassadors to attend WWII memorials in Moscow and Kiev

This content was published on Apr 22, 2015 The cabinet said in a statement on Wednesday that this was in keeping with its tradition of participating “with the appropriate restraint and discretion in commemorations of international historic events”. Ukraine will celebrate the end of the hostilities during a “day of remembrance and reconciliation” in Kiev on May 8. The following day, Russia will…

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Amnesty asks Swiss to help end European migrant crisis

This content was published on Apr 22, 2015 Amnesty International has written to the Swiss president calling for the government to help establish a huge new search-and-rescue operation in the Mediterranean that would be coordinated by all European countries.

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Zurich’s luxury boom seems to be over

This content was published on Apr 22, 2015

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Blocher’s daughter takes the plunge into politics

This content was published on Apr 20, 2015 Martullo-Blocher, 45, said on Monday she would stand for the conservative right Swiss People’s Party in the canton of Graubünden at the national elections on October 18. If elected, she plans to stay CEO of EMS-Chemie. “Politics in Bern is currently marked by superficial knowledge and kneejerk reactions,” she said. “Overregulation and an unchecked expansion…

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Iran trade trip, SNB and Credit Suisse AGMs

This content was published on Apr 19, 2015 Week of April 20, 2015: Swiss businesses head to Iran on the lookout for new ties, Credit Suisse and the Swiss National Bank hold their AGMs.

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Syrian family is focus of award-winning photo

This content was published on Apr 15, 2015 The case made headlines last summer when the pregnant Syrian woman had a miscarriage on a train. Swiss border guards with the family were accused of failing to help her. In July, the family had been travelling on a train from Milan to Paris – which passes through Switzerland – when they were turned back…

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