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Swiss citizenship for Chile’s Frei criticised

This content was published on Jan 14, 2010 Ahead of Sunday’s presidential election run-off in the South American country, Frei revealed his newly acquired Swiss nationality. Critics have described the naturalisation of the 67-year-old Frei – whose father also served as president of Chile in the 1960s – as a violation of equal rights standards and an act of arbitrariness. Parliamentarians from the…

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Earthquake guts already battered Haiti

This content was published on Jan 13, 2010 Swiss aid and development organisations tell swissinfo.ch about the difficulties of responding to an emergency in a country that is no stranger to natural disasters. “If you’re active in Haiti, you learn that you can’t plan in the long term because there are always setbacks,” Mattias Herfeldt from Swiss development organisation Helvetas told swissinfo.ch. For…

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Haiti relief effort underway

This content was published on Jan 13, 2010 Haiti’s worst quake in more than 100 years, measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale, struck late in the afternoon local time about 16 kilometres southwest of the capital Port-au-Prince, followed by numerous aftershocks. The Geneva-based International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and United Nations agencies said they were mobilising dozens of disaster response teams,…

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This content was published on Jan 13, 2010 The extent of the devastation is still unclear but there are fears thousands of people may have died.Haiti’s worst quake in two centuries hit south of the capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, wrecking the presidential palace, UN HQ and other buildings.

Hundreds feared dead after Haiti quake

This content was published on Jan 13, 2010 Switzerland has sent a quick-response team to Port-au-Prince to assess needs. Haiti’s worst quake in two centuries struck late in the afternoon local time about 16 kilometres southwest of Port-au-Prince, and was quickly followed by two strong aftershocks of 5.9 and 5.5 magnitude. Serious damage has been reported to the headquarters of the United Nations…

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Nigerian dictator’s son to face trial in Geneva

This content was published on Jan 12, 2010 The initial judgment of November last year would only have stood if uncontested by the 41-year-old Nigerian. The case will now go to trial. At stake is $350 million (SFr355 million) in Abacha funds in Luxembourg and the Bahamas which was confiscated by the investigating judge in the course of the investigation. The Geneva investigation…

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Swiss-EU bilateral relations to be tested

This content was published on Jan 11, 2010 For the next eight days the European Parliament is holding a series of public hearings with the 26 candidate Commissioners in Brussels. Swiss diplomats will be watching closely to see how the new Commission will deal with the thorny subject of tax. Ahead of the parliamentary grilling, the incoming European commissioners already provided written answers…

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No Swiss rethink on ending aid to North Korea

This content was published on Jan 9, 2010 The foreign ministry says it now has a strategy for the withdrawal of Swiss development workers from the communist country by the end of 2011. In 2008 the government approved a motion by parliamentarian Gerhard Pfister demanding a halt to development aid in response to North Korea’s continuing nuclear ambitions. “The atomic weapon programme violates…

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China warns Swiss over asylum cases

This content was published on Jan 7, 2010 Switzerland is currently studying the case of two brothers from the Chinese province of Xinjiang, who are due to be released as the US-run jail is closed down. They have never been charged with any offence, and the western canton of Jura has said it is ready to accept them. But the Chinese embassy in…

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Urban refugees tell their tale

This content was published on Jan 5, 2010 “A struggle for rights” depicts the urban refugees who often live unnoticed among their neighbours in three cities in three countries: Colombia, Malaysia, and South Africa. Today, more than half of the world’s refugees live in urban situations.

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