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Protest over black raven posters

This content was published on Jan 20, 2009 The rightwing Swiss People’s Party is campaigning with posters showing black ravens pecking at Switzerland to warn against an influx of migrants if voters approve a labour accord with the European Union in next month’s nationwide ballot. The Swiss ambassador, Livio Hürzeler, said Bucharest had called on the Swiss government to condemn the campaign. He…

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Obama vows bold action and new start

This content was published on Jan 20, 2009 With his hand on the Bible used in the 1861 inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, the 47-year-old ascended to the pinnacle of American political power. The National Mall, which stretches from the foot of Capitol Hill west to the Lincoln Memorial, was jammed with hundreds of thousands of spectators, who came to witness the historic transfer…

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Unions call for economic aid package

This content was published on Jan 20, 2009 At a news conference in Bern on Tuesday, the organisation also called on the government and Swiss economics ministry to hold a conference on the crisis. “The programme must permit immediate investments in sectors which encourage an ecological transformation of the economy,” commented the federation’s president, Paul Rechsteiner. First and foremost, these included spending on…

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Diplomat urges caution about Obama presidency

This content was published on Jan 20, 2009 In this interview with the Swiss News Agency, Ziswiler outlines the challenges facing the 44th president of the United States. SNA: It’s expected to be very cold in Washington during the ceremony. Do you think you’ll hold out in the freezing temperatures along with Obama? Urs Ziswiler: Certainly, I’m looking forward to this historic day.…

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Schmid joins board probing Georgia conflict

This content was published on Jan 20, 2009 Schmid, who stepped down at the end of 2008, is now part of the Senior Advisory Board of the EU’s independent commission on the issue. The experts, who met for the first time in Geneva on Monday, also include former foreign ministers of Germany and Austria, Joschka Fischer and Ursula Plassnik, and the former president…

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“Hatred and rage” threatens Gaza truce

This content was published on Jan 19, 2009 The papers generally agree that the three week long Israeli offensive against Gaza, which has left over a thousand people dead, several thousand injured and destroyed large numbers of buildings, has produced only losers and they are sceptical about Israel’s claim to have achieved its aims. The German-language Neue Zürcher Zeitung points out that the…

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Gaza – looking back

This content was published on Jan 19, 2009 Photographer Kai Wiedenhöfer documented life in the Occupied Territories. In the 1990s, he lived in the Gaza Strip and was known “Habib al-Shaab” – Friend of the People. He travelled with his cameras thousands of kilometres throughout the small enclave on his motorbike, observing changes over more than a decade. Wiedenhöfer speaks Arabic and relied…

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Pro- and anti-Israel demos held

This content was published on Jan 17, 2009 Police estimated the crowd outside Bern cathedral on Saturday at 500. In Geneva some 800 pro-Palestine supporters demonstrated outside the headquarters of the United Nations, where they called for an “end to the massacre”. Israeli leaders have made clear they are ready to keep pushing forward with an offensive that has killed more than 1,100…

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Kidnapped ICRC staff in Philippines “are alive”

This content was published on Jan 17, 2009 Spokeswoman Anna Nelson said the three telephoned colleagues on Friday, a day after they were abducted by motorcycle-riding gunmen on southern Jolo island, and said they were unharmed. She gave no other details, but Richard Gordon, head of the Philippine National Red Cross Society, said they had “proof of life, but no demands, so far”.…

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