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Mexico has more than 110,000 missing persons and 52,000 unidentified bodies. The Mexican authorities asked other countries including Switzerland for help in tackling their "forensic crisis". This Swiss responded by setting up forensic science courses for Mexican officials at the University of Lausanne’s School of Criminal Science. School director, Christophe Champod, says evidence is gathered using certain tools like a drone. The equipment was tested on bags of buried...

Switzerland, a model democracy, is tired of politics. 🗳️⁠ ⁠ This is how some have analysed the turnout at the most recent Swiss elections. ⁠ ⁠ At 46.6%, voter turnout is admittedly slightly higher than in 2019 (45%). But as has always been the case in recent decades, more than half the electorate failed to turn out at the polls. ⁠ ⁠ Here are two possible reasons for this. What do you think about it? ⁠ ⁠ Click here to see how the Swiss Abroad voted differently last October:...

Have you ever had people abroad mistaking Switzerland for Sweden? 🇨🇭🇸🇪⁠ Apparently, this happens quite often, especially in the United States. ⁠ ⁠ Today we look at the similarities and differences between the two countries. Which comes out on top? Let us know in the comments. ⁠ ⁠ And click here to find out how the tourism organisation Visit Sweden is trying to solve this problem 👉 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/sweden-has-had-enough-of-being-confused-with-switzerland/48920996 ---...

Here are three news stories from Switzerland you shouldn’t have missed this week. Let us know what you think about them in the comments and tap the links below for more. 🇫🇷Macron in Switzerland: ‘you may not know it, but you are also Europeans’: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/macron-in-switzerland---you-may-not-know-it--but-you-are-also-europeans-/48983782 🏡‘Myth’ of spiking Swiss rents comes under scrutiny:...

16.11.2023 - Most library activity indicators improved in 2022, after two years marked by the COVID-19 pandemic: admissions (+28% compared with 2021), events organised (+42%) and participants in these events (+54%). New results show that women account for 80% of salaried library staff, and even 88% at senior management level. These data are some of the detailed...

Iodine tablets will be sent to five million people in Switzerland. But why is that? 💊⁠ ⁠ On behalf of the army pharmacy, Swiss Post is distributing iodine tablets to all households, businesses and public institutions within a 50-kilometre radius of Swiss nuclear power plants. ⁠ ⁠ However, anyone over 45 is advised not to take the tablets.⁠ ⁠ Full story 👉 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/iodine-tablets-sent-to-five-million-people-in-switzerland/48901234 --- swissinfo.ch is the...

The United States regime has picked sides in the Israel-Hamas war and has committed to funding Israel's ongoing bombing of non-combatant men, women, and children in the Gaza strip. Northern Gaza's infrastructure is now all but destroyed, with millions of Gazans displaced and homeless. Nearly ten times more Gazans than Israelis have now died in the conflict. Many Gazans have fled to the southern portion of Gaza, but homelessness and abject poverty awaits them there. ...

Americans have been fed the myth that US foreign policy from 1919 to 1941 was isolationist. In reality, US policies destabilized already volatile international relations. Original Article: Pushing the False Narrative of U.S. Isolationism [embedded content] Tags: Featured,newsletter

The TSA has been promising to end its boneheaded ways for more than 20 years. Flying out of Dallas International Airport last week, I ruefully recognized that all TSA reform promises are malarkey. As I neared the end of a TSA checkpoint line, I saw two women loitering behind a roped off section for CLEAR, a new biometric surveillance program that works with 35 airports and coordinates with TSA. CLEAR involves travelers standing in photo kiosks that compare their...

Professor Joseph T. Salerno tells his personal story of how he discovered Austrian economics and how he has become one of the its leading proponents. The lecture is part of the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Fall 2023 online conference “How Austrian Economics Impacted My Life,” and includes an introduction and remarks by Jacob Hornberger, and a question-and-answer period. To learn more about the Future of Freedom Foundation, visit fff.org. [embedded...