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Feeling at home away from home

This content was published on Aug 1, 2013 I was a newlywed when I arrived in September 1992. My first month was spent exploring the Swiss capital. I strolled through the cobbled streets of the old town, gazed down on the bears in the bear pits, and swam in the frigid water of a popular outdoor pool, looking up at the massive parliament…

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‘Every generation creates its own view of history’

This content was published on Aug 1, 2013 The 50-year-old native of Basel has taught modern history at the University of Heidelberg in Germany since 2004. In September, he will become director of the German Historical Institute in Paris. The specialist in Swiss history reflects among other things on Switzerland’s role and presence in the digital world. swissinfo.ch: What does August 1 mean…

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Strasbourg awards damages in custody case

This content was published on Jul 30, 2013 Granting the woman “just satisfaction” in her case, the court ruled on Tuesday that the refusal by the Swiss authorities for over six years to issue the Philippines national with a residence permit had breached her right to respect for her family life. The applicant was awarded €16,000 (CHF19,750) in damages and costs of €13,000.…

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Joint airspace means more safety and less fuel

This content was published on Jul 30, 2013 Every day 26,000 aircraft pass each other in the skies over Europe, with most of them taking off or landing at one of the continent’s 440 airports. This has led to the commission warning in June this year that travel routes and airports “risk saturation”. Air traffic will increase by 50 per cent over the…

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Chomsky shares Middle East pessimism in Geneva

This content was published on Jul 26, 2013 The professor of linguistics and philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was in Geneva to give a talk at the 19th International Congress of Linguists at Geneva University on Thursday. On Friday he talked politics, especially the situation in the Middle East and US foreign policy, at a packed Geneva press club. Chomsky –…

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Man on a Korean mission

This content was published on Jul 26, 2013 The soldiers were part of two commissions set up in the framework of the 1953 ceasefire between the warring parties in the Korean conflict. The Swiss government had responded favourably to a request to join the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission (NNRC) and Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (NNSC), becoming their fourth member along with Sweden, Poland…

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Swiss mark 60 years of military presence in Korea

This content was published on Jul 26, 2013 This week André Blattman, head of the Swiss armed forces, will mark the sixtieth anniversary of the signing of the ceasefire agreement that ended the Korean War with a visit to the border at Panmunjom. While that truce brought about an end to the armed conflict, there is still no formal peace treaty between the…

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Arms sales down amid new row over plane deal

This content was published on Jul 25, 2013 Weapons manufacturers sold goods worth CHF194.9 million ($208.2 million) in the first six months of this year, according to figures published by the Federal Customs Administration on Thursday. This compares with trading worth CHF418.3 million for the same period last year. The decline is due to a slump in sales to the United Arab Emirates,…

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Pilatus deal ruffles feathers at home and abroad

This content was published on Jul 24, 2013 The PC-12 is a single-engined turboprop aircraft usually used for corporate transport and by regional airlines. It is not designed for military service, but the US air force has 21 aircraft modified for special operations, calling it the U-28A and using it notably in Africa. The 18 planes ordered last year are supposed to be…

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