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Swiss to return $321 mln in stolen funds to Nigeria
Transparency International, a corruption watchdog, has accused Abacha of stealing up to $5 billion of public money during the five years he ran the oil-rich country, from 1993 until his death in 1998. In 2014, Nigeria and the Abacha family reached an agreement for the West African country to get back the funds, which had been frozen, in return for dropping a complaint against the former military ruler’s son, Abba Abacha. The son was charged by a Swiss court with money-laundering, fraud and forgery in April 2005, after being extradited from Germany, and later spent 561 days in custody.
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Scientists find gold worth $2 million in Swiss sewage
Scientists have struck gold in an unlikely place: Swiss sewage and waste water treatment plants.
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Man's Jack Daniel's flag mistaken for ISIS flag by 'worried' neighbors
A 29-year-old man in Switzerland recently received an anonymous letter from his “worried” neighbors after he hung a Jack Daniel's flag in front of his apartment. Their problem? They mistook the whiskey brand’s logo for the black and white logo of ISIS, and feared the young man may be a supporter of the Islamic State.
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Eight missing after landslide in Swiss Alps, say police
Landslide sent mud, rocks and dirt flooding into village of Bondo, near Italian border, and forced evacuation of about 100 people.
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Switzerland follows Iceland in declaring war against the bankers.
Inspired by Iceland’s progress, activists in Switzerland are now making an important stand against the banking cartels and have successfully petitioned to bring an initiative to public referendum that would attack the private banks where it matters most: their power to lend money they don’t actually have, and to create money out of thin air. (May 22, 2017)
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World's longest pedestrian suspension bridge opens in Switzerland
The world's longest pedestrian suspension bridge opened in Switzerland on Sunday, a ribbon-thin span nearly a third of a mile long that challenges hikers to proceed in places at nearly 28 stories above ground. Officials in the south of Switzerland unveiled the bridge after just 10 weeks of construction. It measures 1,620 feet long and rises as high as 278 feet above the Grabengufer ravine. The span is also impossibly narrow, at just 25.6 inches wide.
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Switzerland chainsaw attack: Five hurt in Schaffhausen
Police are hunting for a man who attacked five people with a chainsaw in the Swiss town of Schaffhausen. Franz Wrousis is alleged to have launched his assault at a health insurance office shortly after 10:30 local time (08:30 GMT). The attack sparked a manhunt involving more than 100 officers from both Switzerland and Germany.
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Bodies of Swiss Couple Buried in Glacier for 75 Years Are Identified
The mystery of what happened to Marcel Dumoulin, a shoemaker, and his wife, Francine, a teacher, had haunted residents of Les Diablerets for decades.
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'Government cuts denied me care I need so I've chosen to die'
Wracked with pain, and after eight years on morphine, Marie Lopez has finally chosen death over a life blighted by illness and cruel spending cuts. This once vibrant businesswoman has spent her every last penny paying for her own care after social services left her to suffer in agony.
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Frustrated widow wants Liberals to expand assisted dying rules
Two years after a landmark ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada on doctor-assisted death, the widow of a man who travelled to Switzerland to end his life wants the government to ease the rules.
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Vegan denied Swiss citizenship by neighbours annoyed at her animal campaigns
A woman in Switzerland has been refused citizenship, and therefore a passport, because her "annoying" vegan campaigning has rubbed her neighbours up the wrong way.
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ECHR: Swiss Muslim girls must attend mixed-sex swimming lessons
Switzerland has won a case at the European court of human rights over its insistence that Muslim parents send their children to mixed-sex school swimming lessons. The Strasbourg-based court ruled that Swiss authorities had not violated the right to freedom of religion by insisting that two Muslim parents send their daughters to mixed-sex swimming lessons.
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Looted Palmyra relics seized by Swiss authorities at Geneva ports
Swiss authorities have seized cultural relics looted from Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra, as well as from Libya and Yemen, which were being stored in Geneva’s free ports. The free ports provide highly secured warehouses where basically anything can be kept tax-free with few questions asked. The confiscated objects, from the third and fourth centuries, include a head of Aphrodite and two funereal bas-reliefs.
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Switzerland votes against strict timetable for nuclear power phaseout
People in Switzerland voting in a referendum have rejected a proposal to introduce a strict timetable for phasing out nuclear power. A projection for SRF public television showed the initiative failing by 55% to 45%. A majority of cantons (Swiss states) voted against the initiative. The plan, backed by the Green Party, would have meant closing three of Switzerland's five nuclear plants next year, with the last shutting in 2029.
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Swiss nuclear plants to remain on grid - SWI swissinfo.ch
Swiss voters have thrown out a proposal to close the country’s five nuclear power plants after 45 years in operation. The Green Party initiative was rejected by 54.2% of the vote, according to final results.
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Up to 40% of asylum seekers in Switzerland ‘disappear’– report
Up to 40 percent of refugees who asked for asylum in Switzerland over the past three months reportedly disappeared from Swiss reception centers shortly afterwards, with their whereabouts unknown to the authorities. The country’s State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) confirmed that within the last quarter some 20 to 40 percent of refugees who have been assigned to reception centers have vanished from the monitoring system completely, Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung reports.
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Meeting to address British-Swiss ties post-Brexit - SWI swissinfo.ch
A delegation from Switzerland will visit Britain to discuss the countries’ future economic ties and agreements following Brexit. ...
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Switzerland, land of peace, sees gun sales soar after terror attacks
Business at Daniel Wyss’ gun shop has been brisk lately in the village of Burgdorf near Switzerland’s capital of Bern. He said the increased demand for firearms is triggered by a growing fear among the Swiss public that terrorists could attack their tranquil land at any time. As nations around Europe tighten their gun laws after a series of terror attacks in several countries since 2015, the Swiss are bucking this trend by turning to firearms for protection.
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Opening of World’s Longest Tunnel is Mysteriously Bizarre
The bizarre opening ceremony of the Gotthard Base Tunnel under the Swiss Alps had many people puzzled and some wondering if it was satanic or worse. By Paul Seaburn.
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EU tells Swiss no single market access if no free movement of citizens
Swiss-EU talks reveal determination of EU to make no concessions to UK over Brexit terms
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