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Cross-border issues cloud Geneva election result

This content was published on Nov 11, 2013 Founded in 2005, the MCG was able to secure a place at the government table at its third attempt, with lawyer and parliamentarian Mauro Poggia taking the seventh and final seat. The Left was the biggest loser, hanging on to just two ministerial positions instead of the three it had held previously. The result confirmed…

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No Iran deal in Geneva talks

This content was published on Nov 10, 2013 Six world powers and Iran agreed to resume talks on November 20. The Geneva talks showed the enormous complexity facing negotiators after a generation of mistrust between Iran and the West since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Any agreement would be a breakthrough after nearly a decade of mostly inconclusive discussions. The United States and…

University sacking attracts protest from abroad

This content was published on Nov 8, 2013 The move comes two days after the resignation of the university’s rector, Andreas Fischer, over the affair. Fischer said in a statement that he took “ultimate responsibility” for the situation and that his decision was “in the interest of the university”. Ritzmann, a professor at the university’s Institute for the History of Medicine, was dismissed…

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Lab says Arafat poisoning likely but ‘not definite’

This content was published on Nov 7, 2013 The researchers from Lausanne university hospital’s Institute for Radiation Physics said on Thursday their results “reasonably support” the theory that Arafat was poisoned with the radioactive substance. Arafat died aged 75 under mysterious circumstances at a French military hospital in 2004. The experts found concentrations of polonium 18 times higher than normal in samples, a…

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Al-Jazeera reports evidence of Arafat poisoning

This content was published on Nov 6, 2013 The scientists from the Lausanne University Hospital’s Institute of Radiation Physics wrote that “the results moderately support the proposition that the death was the consequence of poisoning with polonium-210”. The longtime Palestinian leader died aged 75 at a French hospital in 2004, but the cause of death has never been determined. No autopsy was carried…

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Farmers look to grow their solar and wind power

This content was published on Nov 6, 2013 The energy issue has become so important in recent times that we should all be concerned about it. We, as farmers, have everything required to produce clean energy on our own,” says Weber, a farmer in Val-de-Ruz, in canton Neuchâtel. In this region of the Jura mountains, where there is often a metre of snow…

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Difficult birth of a canton

This content was published on Nov 6, 2013

Did Swiss refinery launder Congo conflict gold?

This content was published on Nov 4, 2013 “After examining Trial’s criminal complaint, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office has decided to open criminal proceedings against Argor-Heraeus over allegations of money laundering related to a war crime and complicity in war crimes,” Jacqueline Bühlmann, spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office, told swissinfo.ch by email on Monday. Trial, a Geneva-based NGO, accuses Argor-Heraeus of having refined almost…

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Head of Bayern Munich to be tried for tax evasion

This content was published on Nov 4, 2013 German judges announced today that they took the decision last week to send the case to trial. Four sessions have been set for the proceedings, which will begin on March 10, 2014. Earlier this year, Hoeness admitted to authorities he had a secret account at a Swiss bank. Prosecutors then filed a case against him…

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