Tag: switzerland
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Switzerland Vote to Limit Foreign Workers Captures Growing European Fears About Immigration
from washingtonpost.com: A tightly contested vote in Switzerland to limit workers from European Union countries brought threats of retaliation Monday from leaders across the continent. The vote also stoked fears that Swiss citizens were reflecting the zeitgeist across Europe, where right-wing populists increasingly are seizing the spotlight with an anti-immigration political agenda. Amid claims of…
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Geneva II: Day 1 of Syria Peace Talks Ends on Fragile Ground
from cbsnews.com: Peace talks to carve a path out of Syria’s civil war got off to a rocky start Wednesday as a bitter clash over President Bashar Assad’s future threatened to collapse the negotiations even before they had begun. The dispute over Assad cast a pall over an international conference that aims to map out…
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Devil Nurse Fined Over Dead Patient Pictures
from au.news.yahoo.com: A Swiss nursing home worker has been fined $1500 for posting pictures of herself posing with dead patients. Nicknamed the Devil Nurse by local media, the woman posted the pictured on her Facebook page with comments including “guess if she is asleep or dead” and “I’ll give you a hint, I’m the soul…
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Bush Cancels Visit to Switzerland After Arrest Threat
ormer President George W. Bush has canceled a visit to Switzerland, where he was to address a Jewish charity gala, due to the risk of legal action against him for alleged torture, rights groups said on Saturday.
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large hadron collider ‘set to create a mini-big bang’
from bbc: Since 2009, the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator has been smashing together protons, in a bid to shed light on the fundamental nature of matter. But now the huge machine will be colliding lead ions instead. The experiments are planned for early November and will run for four weeks. The LHC is housed in…
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‘cyber storm iii’ tests US on cyber attack
stuxnet & cyberstorm3 are unrelated, nothing to see here… from defencetalk: US keyboard warriors were doing battle Tuesday with a simulated cyberattack on government and private computer networks that undermines basic trust in the Internet. The “Cyber Storm III” exercise involves participants from seven US government departments, including the Pentagon, 11 US states, 60 private…
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roman polanski set free after swiss reject US extradition request
flashback: interview w/ peter levenda on polanski from ap: The Swiss government declared renowned film director Roman Polanski a free man on Monday after rejecting a U.S. request to extradite him on a charge of having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl. The Swiss mostly blamed U.S. authorities for failing to provide confidential testimony…
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director roman polanski arrested in switzerland
from seattlepi: Director Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland as he arrived in the country for a film festival and could be extradited to the United States to face 32-year-old charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl, The Associated Press reported Sunday. video: interview w/ the director of ‘roman polanski: wanted & desired’ Polanski,…





