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All of a sudden, everyone is talking about it: the 2019 Nobel Prize won by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz has reminded the Swiss that the country’s astrophysicists are at the forefront of the hunt for...

In this episode of Inside Geneva,exteal link we go behind the scenes at the world's most important gathering on human rights, now underway in Geneva.It's the UN Human Rights Council, where...

Gredig wants to defend the interest of future generations in parliament.(Thomas Ke/swissinfo.ch) Switz...

Bo in 1979, Switzerland’s youngest canton still owes much of its political and economic fate to the federal system that houses it. Four decades ago in Delémont...

Filming the most-watched Swiss film of 2018, "Wolkenbruchs wunderliche Reise in die Arme einer Schickse" (Wolkenbruch's Wondrous Jo...

US President Donald Trumpxa0at the WEF Congress Center on January 25, 2018 (© KEYSTONE / LAURENT GILLIERON) United States President Donald Trump will attend the annual meeting of the World Economi...

The number of Eritreans applying for asylum at the Swiss border has fallen dramatically in recent years. In 2015 there were 8,523 new requests, whereas in 2017 there were just over 400. (RTS/swissinfo.ch)xa0This is explained by the changing asylum situation in the Mediterranean and Italy, but also by a more restrictive Swiss reception policy.xa0In 2012, Switzerland was the most popular country among Eritreans. It accounted for 37% of all asylum applications made by Eritreans on the European cont...

'One is a lonely number': US president Donald Trump disembarking from Marine One in Davos.(Keystone) Almost every article published by swissinfo.ch containsxa0a percentage, an age, an amount of money or some other figure.xa0Here’s a round-up of the most interesting statistics to appear in the past week’s stories. Exteal Content Formatting classes Sunday190The estimated length in kilometres of the ...

Hundreds of Christians protested in Delhi when a Catholic church was set on fire in 2014 just after the BJP party came to power(Keystone) Christian charities supported by foreign donors, including Swiss ones, are finding it increasingly difficult to operate in India due to administrative hurdles. They allege selective implementation of regulations and blame this on the rise of Hindu fundamentalism.“It is unfortunate, these days fundamentalis...

Trump tried to reassure the WEF audience his "America first" agenda also benefits the rest of the world(Keystone) United States President Donald Trump told World Economic Forum (WEF) delegates on Friday that America is “open for business” under his leadership, while reassuring thexa0audience thatxa0"America Firstxa0does not mean America alone”.xa0In his highly-anticipated keynote speechexteal link, Trump said he had come to the Swiss mountai...

"If Switzerland cannot say, 'under no circumstances will we use nuclear weapons', how can we expect North Korea to do that?"xa0This is the question posed byxa0Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the Nobel Peace Prize-winningxa0Inteational Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weaponsexteal linkxa0(iCAN),xa0speaking to swissinfo.ch from the WEF annual meeting in Davos. For Fihn, it's high time that Switzerland signed and ratified the United Nations'xa0inteational nuclear disarmament treatyexteal link, ado...

The Solar Impulse round the world flight is one example of how technology can be put to good use in the environment(Keystone) Transforming smoke-belching, river-polluting industrial dinosaurs into environmentally-friendly businesses is key to achieving the targets of the Paris climate accord, the World Economic Forum is hearing in Davos.“The good news is that this is the biggest business opportunity that we have ever seen, but it is only an ...

«Funky Claude» Nobs and Jean-Paul Marquis help fight the fire at Montreux Casino.xa0Blame it on Zappa. Montreux 1971. (©xa0Alain Bettex) Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Montreux Jazz Festival, the National Museum of Zurich has opened a memorabilia exhibition mainly focused on its founder, the legendary Claude Nobs (1936-2013). With a carefully selected set of objects, videos and sounds, "Montreux. Jazz Since 1967" gives form to one of the richest immaterial treasures of humanity.xa...

Playing to a vanished audience: Basel's Valentin Stocker celebrates. (Keystone) As the Swiss national team goes from strength to strength in preparing for the World Cup in Russia, we dig into the numbers toxa0explore the struggles of the domestic league. On the surface, Swiss football is enjoying something of a purple patch. The national side ‘Die Nati’ (unfortunately pronounced ‘Nazi’) has qualified for the fourth World Cup running, and will fly to Russia in summer with what’s widely ackn...

Flexible arrangements exist for Swiss workers (Keystone) More than 41 hours and 10 minutes? That’s the average in Switzerland for people with full-time jobs – relatively few compared with most developed countries. How did Switzerland get to this seemingly happy situation, and why are unions and business associations getting all worked up?xa0 After the General Strike of 1918exteal link (in which over 250,000 workers downed tools, resulting in the troops being sent in), a 48-hour week for wo...

Keeping a bucket of water close by is a necessary ritual when using real candles to light a tree.(Keystone) A bright ChristmasOn December 24, 1999, the year that swissinfo.ch came into existence, we reported that nine out of ten Swiss households put up a Christmas treeexteal link, with most preferring real candles rather than electric bulbs.xa0In 2008 we wrote that candles not only illuminate trees in family homes but also in many churc...

Protesters against the overtuing of net neutrality laws carry a sign to the Federal Communications Commission headquarters in Washington, DC earlier this month(Keystone) The decision “creates a world in which ‘you must be at least this tall to play’,” says Brian Trammell of the United States Federal Communications Commission’s vote last week to overtu regulations that kept inteet service providers from charging content providers money f...

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