Rfi: By Tony Cross The war of Sarkozy’s succession has opened in France’s right-wing UMP party, following its defeat in presidential polls at the hands of Socialist François Hollande. As the party tries to fight a parliamentary election campaign, former prime minister François Fillon has declared that it needs a new leader […]
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BBC: Geneva: Tackling polio has entered “emergency mode” according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative after “explosive” outbreaks in countries previously free of the disease. It has launched a plan […]
by Simon Bradley, swissinfo.ch The Pilatus aircraft manufacturer has confirmed a deal to export 75 PC-7 MkII military training aircraft to India worth $523 million (SFr500 million) – the biggest-ever […]
The radical Islamic organisation Shariah4Holland has caused a stir in the Netherlands. The movement is holding a conference in Amsterdam on Saturday and has invited Fouad ‘Abu Imran’ Bekacem, the leader of Shariah4Belgium, recently sentenced to two years in jail for incitement to violence. Media attention and questions from the […]
Russian TV: The seemingly noble move is tainted by the fact the very people accused of rights violations in their home countries – like the King of Bahrain, for example […]
Switzerland’s tendency to allow cantons or towns to decide certain issues sometimes makes for piece-meal solutions, and such is the case with special sections of cemeteries for different religions. The […]
swissinfo.ch and agencies Five aid workers with the Swiss-based humanitarian group Medair – two foreign female doctors and three male Afghan colleagues – have been kidnapped in a remote part of north-eastern Afghanistan, a government spokesman has confirmed. The five Medair workers were reportedly visiting a clinic and bringing food […]
Source: The Local A 16-year-old schoolboy has solved a mathematical problem which has stumped mathematicians for centuries, a newspaper report said. The boy put the historical breakthrough down to “schoolboy naivety.” Shouryya Ray, who moved to Germany from India with his family at the age of 12, has baffled […]
A broad majority in parliament has rejected a third request from Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders to postpone Wednesday’s debate on the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), a permanent bail-out fund which is part of a EU fiscal pact to reinforce economic supervision. Mr Wilders’ request won the support of just […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Nuremberg Trials were a series […]
(Reuters) – Germany dismissed a French-led call for euro zone nations to issue common bonds, a day before a European Union leaders’ summit which investors are looking to for new measures to counter the bloc’s debt crisis. After a torrid week, stock markets rallied on optimism that the Wednesday summit […]
By RFI French President François Hollande said France had done “more than its duty” in Afghanistan, as officials said a calendar to pull out troops would be drawn up in the coming days. Speaking at the end of a two-day Nato summit in the US city of Chicago, the new French […]
On the banks of the Volga river, in the very heart of Russia, the republic of Tatarstan has reunited two religions in its history. Throughout the ages, explorations and wars […]
An entire French village, which caught global public attention after failing to find a buyer for the price of a one-bedroomed Paris flat, was on Monday finally auctioned off to […]
David Cameron on Monday expressed Nato’s “frustration” at Pakistan’s refusal to allow alliance forces to use a vital supply route out of Afghanistan. The alliance on Monday urged Pakistan to […]
An Asian couple murdered their teenage daughter Shafilea Ahmed because they believed her westernised behaviour was bringing shame upon their family, a court heard. Shafilea, 17, had resisted plans for […]
Russian TV: The Vatican is threatening to take legal action against those responsible for publishing a new book of leaked internal documents. The book sheds light on power struggles and […]
by Rita Emch in New York, swissinfo.ch Switzerland and four other states have withdrawn a draft resolution on reforming the working methods of the United Nations Security Council. The text […]
Human Rights Watch: Geneva: United Nations member states should urge Indonesia to adopt specific measures to ensure religious freedom, free expression, and accountability for abuses at the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of […]