Here are three stories from Switzerland this week 🇨🇭 --- swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. For more articles, interviews and videos visit swissinfo.ch or subscribe to our YouTube channel: Website: http://www.swissinfo.ch Channel: http://www.youtube.com/swissinfovideos Subscribe:...
Read More »Aare Böötle: A Swiss Tradition of Floating Down the River Aare | #switzerland #aare #aareböötle
Have you ever tried this? --- swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. For more articles, interviews and videos visit swissinfo.ch or subscribe to our YouTube channel: Website: http://www.swissinfo.ch Channel: http://www.youtube.com/swissinfovideos Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=swissinfovideos
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--- swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. For more articles, interviews and videos visit swissinfo.ch or subscribe to our YouTube channel: Website: http://www.swissinfo.ch Channel: http://www.youtube.com/swissinfovideos Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=swissinfovideos
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Send us a text (https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/915097/open_sms) Get in touch! • Email us at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) • Twitter: @ImogenFoulkes and @swissinfo_en Thank you for listening! If you like what we do, please leave a review or subscribe to our newsletter. For more stories on the international Geneva (https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/topic/international-geneva/) please visit...
Read More »Inside Geneva’s Summer Profiles: Tammam Aloudat
Send us a text (https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/915097/open_sms) Inside Geneva’s Summer Profiles are back! In this episode we talk to Tammam Aloudat, doctor, aid worker and now journalist. “I was born in Syria, and I spent most of my life there until my mid-20s. I studied there; I went to medical school there,” says the CEO of The New Humanitarian. Was being a doctor in Syria his first choice? “One of the first side effects of...
Read More »Truth or tale: is Swiss chocolate tainted by child labour? | #worldchocolateday
Is it true that children are involved in cocoa production for the Swiss chocolate industry? 🍫 We received this question from one of you on social media, and since today is World Chocolate Day, we’re diving into this complex issue. This is episode two of our new series "Truth or Tale?"! 🔎 We’re taking your questions from social media and fact-checking them for you. Have you heard anything about Switzerland you’d like us to fact-check? Drop a comment...
Read More »War, Peace and Cake: The World in 2025
Send us a text (https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/915097/open_sms) 2025 has been a year of conflict, upheaval, and huge challenges to the international system. Gunilla von Hall, Svenskadagbladet: "It all started downhill from 20th of January. Since then, it's just, well, ‘the Ukraine war will be over in 24 hours?’ Nothing happened. It just got worse. Then we had Gaza, then we have Iran, Israel. Then we had the cuts of all the aid. It's very bleak. I...
Read More »Nuclear talks in Switzerland, ETH Zurich and cow toilets to cut emissions | #switzerland #news
Here are this week's stories from Switzerland. --- swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. For more articles, interviews and videos visit swissinfo.ch or subscribe to our YouTube channel: Website: http://www.swissinfo.ch Channel: http://www.youtube.com/swissinfovideos Subscribe:...
Read More »What you didn’t know about psychiatry and Switzerland
You might already know that the psychedelic drug LSD was first created in Switzerland, but did you know that it was synthesised at a pharmaceutical lab in Basel in 1938? --- swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. For more articles, interviews and videos visit swissinfo.ch or subscribe to our YouTube channel: Website: http://www.swissinfo.ch...
Read More »Swiss Political Cartoonist Patrick Chappatte: Cartoons and the fight for press freedom
Patrick Chappatte is one of the world’s most prolific cartoonists, with his work being translated into numerous languages and published in 130 countries. Living in the Swiss city of Geneva – home to the UN and a major political hub – he comments on world events with his cartoons. We talked to Chappatte about the current state of satire, media and free speech in the world. And we looked over his shoulder while he was creating a cartoon for the American outlet The Boston...
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