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The father of missing Swiss twins trawled the Internet for information on firearms, poisons and suicide days before he apparently killed himself in Italy, Swiss police said.
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GENEVA — Swiss voters on Sunday approved a plan to automatically deport foreigners who commit serious crimes or benefit fraud, in a significant victory for the...
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Switzerland’s finance minister has sparked hilarity in the Alpine nation by collapsing into giggles while answering a parliamentary question about imports of...
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Swiss women for the first time captured most of the seats in the country’s seven-member executive branch Wednesday, brushing aside Switzerland’s history as...
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Using a machine kept colder than space, scientists at the world’s most ambitious international research facility are puzzling out the questions of the universe,...
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Newsweek magazine has ranked living conditions in 100 countries around the world. In the magazine’s analysis, Finland was judged to be the best.
The analysis...
made popular Aug 17 2010
A Swedish man has been handed what is believed to be the world’s largest speeding fine, which is expected to cost him £650,000.
The 37-year-old man was driving...
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Authorities say a popular Alpine tourist train has derailed in southern Switzerland, killing one person and injuring 42 others.
The accident occurred Friday afternoon...
made popular Jul 26 2010
Switzerland will not extradite the film director Roman Polanski to the United States to face sentencing for unlawful sex with a minor because of a possible fault in the...
made popular Jul 13 2010
An experimental solar-powered plane whose makers hope to one day circle the globe using only energy collected from the sun took off for its first 24-hour test flight...
made popular Jul 7 2010
A bet placed seven years ago by a man who left his estate to Oxfam will raise more than £100,000 for the charity – if Roger Federer wins Wimbledon for a...
made popular Jun 21 2010
Western nations rebuked Iran for its human rights record Tuesday after overcoming an attempt by Iran and its Muslim allies to block the statement from being read aloud...
made popular Jun 17 2010
Following is the full text of Ahmar Mustikhan’s speech delivered in Geneva on June 16/2010:
Geneva I am told can be a roguish city and I believe it. I mean...
made popular Jun 17 2010
A Swiss businessman detained nearly two years in Libya amid a dispute over the arrest of Moammar Gadhafi’s son accused Libyan authorities Monday of kidnapping and...
made popular Jun 15 2010
Authorities in Switzerland are investigating whether an acupuncturist intentionally infected at least 15 people with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, an official said...
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A Swiss man fined for nude hiking has won an appeal of the 100-franc ($87) penalty because a court decided that the charge of “indecent behavior” did not...
made popular May 29 2010
So, The International Red Cross has defended giving first aid training to the Taliban in Afghanistan, saying it’s a part of its strict neutrality to train both...
made popular May 28 2010
AN 81-year-old man was put under house arrest by his family after a bizarre accident turned him into a sex addict.
Mr De Luca blew 4948 swiss francs ($5200) of HIS...
made popular May 22 2010
Whether it is jumping off the world famous Eiger, flying through the air in a wing suit or perilously balancing on a 30-foot long ’slack line’ hundreds of...
made popular Apr 21 2010
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Physicists at the CERN research centre achieved high-power collisions of sub-atomic particles on Tuesday in their attempt to create mini-versions of the Big Bang that...
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Three ex-inmates of the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia and two to Switzerland.
US officials gave no...
made popular Mar 24 2010
Legal representation in cases involving mistreated animals has been compulsory since 1992 in the Zurich canton. But pet politics could be taken to a new level if voters...
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The body of three-year-old Gurshan Singh was found six hours after he vanished from a home while his mum was having a shower.
Cousin Ramen Deep Singh said in broken...
made popular Mar 5 2010
Extra small condoms for boys as young as 12 could soon be on our shelves.
The Hotshot condoms are going on sale in Switzerland after research found that not enough 12...
made popular Mar 4 2010
The Libyan leader made his comments while speaking at a meeting to mark the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad.
“Let us wage jihad against Switzerland, Zionism and...
made popular Mar 2 2010
The Libyan tyrant is simply an endless repository of comical madness.
There are no words to explains the behavior of the Libyan clown known as Qadhafi. He’s simply...
made popular Mar 2 2010
Islam is supposed to be the religion of peace. The ‘Koran’, other than being the holy book, also means ‘peace’. However, a lot of people seem to...
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Libya’s dispute with Switzerland was intensified Thursday after Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi called for ‘jihad’ against the European nation...
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A NIGERIAN drugs smuggler has been arrested in Switzerland with 123 condoms stuffed with cocaine weighing 1.7 kilograms in his stomach, border guards say.
Michel...
made popular Feb 20 2010
A court in Libya has dismissed a case against a Swiss businessman who was accused of illegal business activities, his lawyer has said.
Rachid Hamdani, who was also...
made popular Feb 8 2010
European fascism and communism gave us the propaganda poster - striking images and forceful words meant to inspire patriotism and loyalty amongst the masses.
The...
made popular Jan 25 2010
A Swiss court has slapped a wealthy speeder with a chalet-sized fine – a full $290,000.
Judges at the cantonal court in St. Gallen, in eastern Switzerland, based the...
made popular Jan 8 2010
Four people died and another three were missing Monday after two avalanches in the Swiss Alps, Bern police said.
The avalanches occurred at 11:30 a.m. (5:30 a.m. ET)...
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A Swiss company geologist pleaded not guilty to knowingly causing $8.7 million in damage after his pioneering geothermal project caused earthquakes.
Markus Haering, a...
made popular Dec 18 2009
The recent Swiss referendum vote to ban the building of minarets seems to confirm the trend of Europeans becoming increasingly strident in their attempts to...
made popular Dec 16 2009
A Swiss shoe-shop owner has built a mock minaret on the top of his warehouse in defiance of a ban on the Muslim architecture.
Guillaume Morand extended a chimney, gave...
made popular Dec 12 2009
Okay, first of all lets get one thing straight: banning Minaret’s is NOT banning Islam. It’s not as if Switzerland placed a ban on mosques or Muslims...
made popular Dec 11 2009
After the expected banning of minarets by the Swiss voters, the Moroccan higher council of Islamic scholars expressed their disappointment over this form of extremism...
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After the expected banning of minarets by the Swiss voters, the Moroccan higher council of Islamic scholars expressed their disappointment over this form of extremism...
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The Swiss have voted for their referendum, and the vote has decided against the building of Islamic Minarets in Switzerland. Middle Eastern press called it a racist...
made popular Dec 4 2009
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Finland’s Tuomas Puhlman, right, celebrates his team’s first goal against Canada with teammate Sami Kapanen during first period action at the IIHF Men’s World Hockey Championship Monday, May 4, 2009 in Kloten, Switzerland. Finland won 4-3 in a...
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