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🗞️3 news stories from Switzerland this week: 📺 Swiss public television has decided to stop broadcasting films starring French actor, Gérard Depardieu: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/explainer--swiss-television-s-blacklisting-of-g%C3%A9rard-depardieu/49109480 🚫 The Swiss government has announced that it will enforce a new definition of rape in July: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/from-coercion-to--no-means-no---switzerland-updates-its-definition-of-rape/49119364 🐺 Dead Swiss wolf...

For a long time, Kosovars remained invisible in Switzerland. In the 1990s they were victims of racist stereotypes. Today there are a lot of connections. A look at how the two countries have grown together. Kosovo is sometimes described as the 27th canton of Switzerland. There are 1.8 million Kosovars living in Kosovo and 250,000 in Switzerland. Relations have been close ever since Switzerland played a key role in the young state’s independence in 2008. Links between the two countries...

The bitter conflict in Gaza has polarised opinions. Aid agencies are caught in the middle. Fabrizio Carboni, Regional Director of the Near and Middle East division of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC): “People tend to believe we can do things that actually we can’t. I mean we have no army, we have no weapons.” Some say the ICRC hasn’t done enough to help Israeli hostages. “If we could release them all we would do it as soon as possible....

In the last Inside Geneva of 2023, UN correspondents look back at the year..and what a year it’s been. Emma Farge, Reuters: ‘This year has felt like lurching from one catastrophe to another.’ Earthquakes, climate change, or war –the UN is always expected to step in. Nick Cumming-Bruce, contributor, New York Times: ‘This is a multilateral system that is absolutely falling apart under the strain of all the extreme events it’s having to deal...

The world is marking an important anniversary: the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. After the Second World War, this was supposed to be our "never again" moment. The  Universal Declaration of Human Rights promises us the right to live, to freedom of expression, the right not to be tortured, to equality regardless of gender, race or religion. So how’s that working out? Throughout 2023 SWI swissinfo.ch has been talking to the men and...

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Over the past two years archaeology students from the universities of Basel and Zurich and volunteer detectorists have unearthed thousands of Roman military artefacts littering a rolling meadow in southeast Switzerland. These include ancient swords, slingshot bullets, brooches, coins, fragments of shields and several thousand Roman hobnails. Based on recent finds, Swiss historians believe an important battle took place on the remote mountainside in the idyllic Julier Valley, south of...

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Is begging a human right?⁠ ⁠ Following a 2023 Federal Court ruling, canton Basel City changed its practice towards begging and expelled eleven beggars from Eastern Europe from Switzerland.⁠ ⁠ What do you think about this? Let us know in the comments. ⁠ --- 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...

The ongoing Israeli-Palestinian war is the latest chapter in a long-standing Middle East conflict. Since the First Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897, Switzerland has been a symbol of neutrality and humanitarianism, actively supporting aid delivery in the region. Here are some key moments in Switzerland’s relations with the Middle East 👉 https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/timeline--switzerland-and-the-conflict-in-the-middle-east/49018704 --- swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the...