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Swiss Attoey General Michael Lauber (centre) in a file photo Keystone / Peter Klaunzer Swiss Attoey General Michael Lauber - facing impeachment proceedings over his handling of a ...

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...

Producing for diverse audiences is part of the job at an inteational broadcaster(Keystone / Salvatore Di Nolfi) ...

The aual photo of the Swiss Federal Council for 2020, with federal chancellor Walter Thuherr on the far left(Swiss Fede...

The Mühleberg nuclear power plant  as seen on Friday, shortly before it was shut down(Keystone / Anthony Anex) ...

The entrance of the Palais des Nations, the UN's European headquarters in Geneva(United Nations Photo) ...

Women candidates from the Green Party celebrate their victories(Keystone / Eddy Risch) From massive shifts in party pow...

Representatives of the Social Democratic Party in parliament have voted more often than any other party in line with the position o...

Meat may be a delicious staple for most Swiss but it is not so good for the climate.(Keystone) The latest UN climate re...

The chief animator of the hit film trilogy “How to train your Dragon” is Swiss. Simon Otto, who has lived in the United States for 21 years, comes from St Gallen in easte Switz...

China Is leading the world towardsan electric car future (Robyn Beck / AFP) Switzerland has a new strategy to promote greater use of electric vehicles, but the Alpine nation remains far behind ...

Encrypted digital tokens, representing ownership rights to underlying securities, are being tipped to transform financial trading. (KEYSTONE/STEFFEN SCHMIDT) The Swiss stock exchange is just one...

(Keystone) On April 16, 1943, Albert Hofma suddenly saw “an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colours”. Hofma, then a scientist at Basel-based pharmaceutical company Sandoz, had accidentally experienced the first LSD trip after touchin...

Orphans eatlunchin Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.More than four million children have lost at least one parent in Congo over the past two decades(Keystone) The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has boycotted a United Nations conference in Geneva that reaped hundreds of millions of dollars to help...

Two-thirds of the govement’s tax revenue is at stake in the vote(Keystone) Projections show 83% of voters have renewed the govement’s right to tax its citizens and companies for another 15 years. This is a unique feature of Switzerland’s political system of direct democracy and federalism. ...

(swissinfo.ch) Today, on World Radio Day, we celebrate the power of radio and its role in bringing people together.It is also an occasion to look back at how swissinfo.ch began... with radio.Begiing in 1935, special programmes for the Swiss abroad were broadcast over short wave.In 1939, the Short Wave Service got its own antea, located at Schwarzenberg in canton Be.Here is a sample programme from May 3, 1949, witha speech in Switzerland byIndian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. And in thisinterview from 1958, we hear from legendary jazz trumpeter and vocalist Louis Armstrong in relaxed mood. In 1978, the Short Wave Servicewas ren...

A cloud of confetti at the start of the Lucee caival on Thursday(Keystone) Almost every article published by swissinfo.ch containsa percentage, an age, an amount of money or some other figure.Here’s a round-up of the most interesting statistics to appear in the past week’s stories. Exteal Content Formatting classes Monday5The number of F/A-18 Hoet fighter jets belonging to the Swiss Air Force that had to be grounded after cracks were discovered.Tuesday40The distance from Earth in lightyears of the star TRAPPIST-1. One of the star’s seven exoplanets is more similar to our planet than any other ...

Undocumented or not? Schools make no difference(Keystone) A group of right-leaning politicians in Switzerland is calling for schools to inform the authorities if they have illegal immigrants amongtheir pupils. The move is causing consteation, not only among teaching staff.The House of Representatives’ Social Security and Health Committeeexteal link submitted a motionexteal link at the end of January calling for “facilitating the exchange of information between state bodies for people whose residency status is not settled (for example, for education…)”.Committee member Raymond Clottu told public service radio RTSexteal link on Monday that...

Jean-Claude Biver believes infacing the enemy head-on(Keystone) In a boardroom on a boat moored off Geneva’s Quai du Mont-Blanc, Jean-Claude Biver is explaining his first success in business, furiously thumping the table to punctuate his words.In the early 1980s, the luxury Swiss watch industry faced a near-existential crisis: Japanese manufacturers had threatened to render mechanical watches obsolete by introducing cheap, more accurate quartz models, and sales told accordingly.Swatch’s founder, Nicolas Hayek, played the Japanese at their own game, launching Swiss-made $50 plastic quartz watches in every colour. But Biver played the cont...

Peter Aeschlima is the mayor ofTrub, a small town in the Emmental region between Be and Lucee. In his auto repair shop he fixes everything from lawnmowers to trucks.The 19th century Swiss novelist Jeremias Gotthelf would have loved this suy afteoon in quiet and quaint Trub. The village is surrounded by green hills, and smoke is rising in the distance."Because of the storm,"explainsPeter Aeschlima. "They're busy buing the branches of the trees that fell over."The54-year-old mayor of Trub points to the Löwen (Lion) guesthouse, which has featured in Swiss films like Late Bloomersexteal linkand The Foster Boyexteal link. "They don't need to change much;Trub works as a perfect film setting“, says...