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Swiss gun tradition surprises tourists

This content was published on Jan 10, 2011 A railway station, the noise of trains, the coming and going of crowds on the platforms. Office staff prepare to start another working day while tourists head off to explore the country. Teenagers into hip hop wear baseball caps on back to front and jeans that are much too big. Nearby a group of soldiers…

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Poll finds support for anti-gun move

This content was published on Jan 9, 2011 A poll by the Isopublic institute shows that 45 per cent of the respondents said they were in favour of the initiative, while 34 per cent came out against. More than 20 per cent are still undecided. The poll which was published in a Sunday newspaper also found that women are more likely to vote…

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Swiss on hand to ease separation of Sudan

This content was published on Jan 8, 2011 Michael Winzap, Switzerland’s newly appointed special representative for Sudan and the Horn of Africa, spoke to swissinfo.ch on the eve of the self-determination vote. Switzerland has been actively contributing to peace efforts in Sudan for the past decade. Winzap took up the post at the beginning of this month – a critical month in Sudan’s…

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Protests mark “end of Tunisian economic miracle”

This content was published on Jan 7, 2011 Thousands of lawyers went on strike in Tunisia on Thursday, a week after a police crackdown on protests against unemployment. A Tunisian graduate whose suicide attempt last month set off the initial protests died on Wednesday. Mohammed Bouazizi, 26, set himself on fire in front of a government building in the central town of Sidi…

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Minaret vote “helped Muslim understanding”

This content was published on Jan 7, 2011 swissinfo.ch spoke to Amira Hafner-Al-Jabaji, a Swiss of Iraqi origin and one of those involved in the dialogue, about what had changed since November 29, 2009. Hafner-Al-Jabaji is president of the Interreligious Think-Tank which seeks to promote religious peace in the country and opposes fundamentalism. She told swissinfo.ch the controversial vote had merely highlighted an…

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Almost 5,000 army guns go AWOL

This content was published on Jan 6, 2011 The situation is improving, however, according to the defence ministry. In 2008, the army registered 49 missing weapons; in 2009, the number was 26. According to a report in the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper, a particularly high number of weapons went missing between 1995 and 2004, when an above-average number of soldiers were dismissed. Army spokesman Christoph…

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Almost 5,000 army guns go AWOL

This content was published on Jan 6, 2011 The situation is improving, however, according to the defence ministry. In 2008, the army registered 49 missing weapons; in 2009, the number was 26. According to a report in the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper, a particularly high number of weapons went missing between 1995 and 2004, when an above-average number of soldiers were dismissed. Army spokesman Christoph…

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Chaos and cholera hamper Haiti reconstruction

This content was published on Jan 6, 2011 “Our help in Haiti is still just a drop in the ocean. The best we can do is improve the conditions for families, quarters or whole villages,” said Alain Geiger from Swiss Solidarity, a fundraising charity led by the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, swissinfo.ch’s parent company. But the Swiss Red Cross points out that for people…

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Decline in adoption seen as a sign of the times

This content was published on Jan 6, 2011 Recent figures produced by the Federal Statistics Office show a consistent decline in the number of adoptions over the past 30 years, from 1,600 in 1980 to 500 in 2009. The figures include step-parent adoptions. The pattern of adoption has changed just as the world has changed in the intervening decades. In 1980, two-thirds of…

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