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Leuthard talks green economy in Kenya

This content was published on Feb 23, 2011 Speaking at the Forum of Environment Ministers currently taking place in Nairobi, Kenya, Leuthard said economic progress and environmental protection went hand in hand. Environment ministers and experts gathered in Nairobi from Monday to discuss reforming world environment governance in order to better manage crises linked to climate change and environmental degradation. Delegates from 140…

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Libyan crisis sends oil prices surging

This content was published on Feb 23, 2011 Gilles Carbonnier, professor at the Geneva-based Graduate Institute, tells swissinfo.ch that Libya’s oil production remains crucial for the industrialised world even if the Organisation of Petrol Exporting Countries (Opec) is increasing its output. Transport links with Libyan ports were interrupted on Tuesday as a result of the unrest, according to the London-based maritime transport authorities.…

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Condemnation grows over Libyan attacks

This content was published on Feb 22, 2011 Following a closed session on Tuesday to discuss the violence, the UN Security Council condemned the crackdown on anti-government protesters and demanded that violence against civilians end immediately. The 15-member council called for an “immediate end to the violence and for steps to address the legitimate demands of the population, including through national dialogue”. In…

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Pacolli faces tough time as Kosovan president

This content was published on Feb 22, 2011 Pacolli, a controversial construction entrepreneur with a fortune estimated at up to SFr1 billion ($1.1 billion), was elected in a third round of voting on Tuesday, with just 62 votes in the 120-seat parliament. He did not receive the required two-thirds of the vote in the first two rounds. The new parliament was sworn in…

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Groups demand freeze of Gaddafi assets

This content was published on Feb 22, 2011 On Monday, the Arabic Transparency Organisation launched an urgent request with the Swiss cabinet, the federal prosecutor’s office and the foreign ministry. A lawyer representing the group said it was imperative to avoid the loss of any funds deposited in Switzerland – funds which may have been generated through the misuse of public coffers in…

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In Benghazi they are “chanting in the streets”

This content was published on Feb 21, 2011 But their success has come at a heavy price in human life, and it is not clear what the Gaddafi regime will now do, Ahmed Bentaher, a doctor at the Jalaa hospital in Benghazi, told swissinfo.ch on Monday. More than 300 people have been killed in the city since the clashes started, with 61 dead…

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Anti-Gaddafi protests take place in Geneva

This content was published on Feb 20, 2011 The protestors, chiefly Libyans living in Switzerland and sympathisers, called for Gaddafi to go, according to the Swiss News Agency. “We fear there’ll be a real massacre over there,” said Hassan Al Djahmi, a political refugee in Switzerland for ten years and the organiser of the protest outside the United Nations’ Geneva headquarters. He also…

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Experts set to help EU with Tunisia migrants

This content was published on Feb 20, 2011 The EU’s border agency, Frontex, started its work at Italy’s southern border on Sunday. It requested help from Switzerland last week. “We told Frontex that Switzerland would have two documentation specialists and one expert for air surveillance,” Walter Pavel, a Federal Customs Office spokesman, told the Swiss News Agency on Sunday, confirming newspaper reports. The…

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Swiss-based millionaire named Kosovo president

This content was published on Feb 20, 2011 Pacolli is the head of the New Kosovo Alliance (AKR), one of the parties in a coalition deal signed on Saturday with Kosovo’s caretaker prime minister Hashim Thaci. Thaci’s Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) won a third of votes in an election two months ago, but has turned to the AKR and the ethnic minority…

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Ben Ali-linked funds may total SFr80 million

This content was published on Feb 20, 2011 Previously officials had spoken of tens of millions of Swiss francs after they froze the assets on January 19, five days after Ben Ali fled Tunisia. The Federal Police Office told the SonntagsZeitung that suspicious assets with a link to Tunisia totalling SFr80 million had come to light. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office is looking into…

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