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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 annual 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 towardsxa0an 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 Hofmann suddenly saw “an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colours”. Hofmann, then a scientist at Basel-based pharmaceutical company Sandoz, had accidentally experienced the first LSD trip after touchin...

Orphans eatxa0lunchxa0in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.xa0More 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.xa0xa0 ...

(swissinfo.ch) Today, on World Radio Day, we celebrate the power of radio and its role in bringing people together.xa0It is also an occasion to look back at how swissinfo.ch began... with radio.Beginning in 1935, special programmes for the Swiss abroad were broadcast over short wave.xa0In 1939, the Short Wave Service got its own antenna, located at Schwarzenberg in canton Be.Here is a sample programme from May 3, 1949, withxa0a speech in Swi...

A cloud of confetti at the start of the Lucee caival on Thursday(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 Monday5The number of F/A-18 Hoet fighter jets belonging to the Swiss Air Forc...

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 amongxa0their 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 ...

Jean-Claude Biver believes inxa0facing 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 q...

Peter Aeschlimann is the mayor ofxa0Trub, a small town in the Emmental region between Be and Lucee. In his auto repair shop he fixes everything from lawnmowers to trucks.xa0The 19th century Swiss novelist Jeremias Gotthelf would have loved this sunny afteoon in quiet and quaint Trub. The village is surrounded by green hills, and smoke is rising in the distance.xa0"Because of the storm,"xa0explainsxa0Peter Aeschlimann. "They're busy buing the branches of the trees that fell over."Thexa054-year-ol...