Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) developed the CoWriter system whereby children improve their writing skills by showing a robot how to write letters. EPFL Brad Nelson, […]
Hamid Mamdouh is a Swiss-Egyptian former trade negotiator for Egypt and ex-WTO official who lives and works as a lawyer in Geneva. Fabrice Coffrini / AFP June 9, 2020 – […]
Heading up a United Nations agency is no easy task. Whether your area of expertise is environment (UNEP), children (Unicef) or health (WHO), the fact is you are suggesting and […]
Swiss court approves extradition of PKK recruiter to Germany A PKK militant stands at a barricade in Diyarbakir, southeast Turkey (2016). Keystone Switzerland’s highest court says it has approved the extradition […]
Indonesia is committed to reducing deforestation, according to Ambassador Muliaman Hadad. swissinfo.ch Amid a referendum just launched in Switzerland against a free trade agreement with Indonesia, the Indonesian ambassador to the Alpine […]
A Black Lives Matter protest in Zurich, June 1, 2020. Keystone / Alexandra Wey The anti-racism demonstrations currently seen in the US and around the world have found echoes in Switzerland, where […]
Jun 4, 2020 – 11:13 The Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona ruled that German authorities had not made enough of a case against the man, who belongs to a group […]
By Markus Spoerndli Jun 6, 2020 Jeremy Herren and his team in Kenya have discovered a microbe that eliminates the malaria pathogen in mosquitoes. (Evan Teal) When Jeremy Herren […]
By Ashley Mantha-Hollands and Liav Orgad May 13, 2020 – http://www.swissinfo.ch The Covid-19 crisis has put a temporary stop to handshaking and taught us to cover our faces. (Keystone) […]
By Urs Geiser May 13, 2020 – SWISSINFO.ch The border with neighbouring Germany was closed in mid-March as part of efforts to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic […]
Over 1,000 poorer working people and undocumented migrants waited for hours for basics Reuters in Geneva Sat 9 May 2020 More than 1,000 people queued on Saturday to get free […]
Embed code press here for video report May 6, 2020 Switzerland boasts of a long humanitarian tradition and in fact deals with relatively more asylum requests than […]
By Grégoire Barbey May 5, 2020 – swissinfo.ch The endless queues for food bags in Geneva show that while the health crisis seems to be subsiding, the economic crisis has […]
Apr 27, 2020 – swissinfo.ch Experts say discrimination is increasingly taking place in public. (Keystone) Switzerland documented a record 352 cases of discrimination in 2019, reflecting an increase in racist […]
By AFP – Apr 21,2020 -JORDAN TIMES The hotel has taken in some of the city’s unaccompanied minor migrants to help them off the streets during the pandemic (AFP photo) […]
14th April 2020 http://www.swissinfo.ch An Iraqi man accused of operating in Switzerland as a recruiter and trafficker for the Islamic State has been formally charged by the Office of the […]
Source: Apr 7, 2020 – swissinfo.ch Almost two-thirds of Swiss Christians who took part in a survey do not think the Resurrection of Jesus is a historical fact. Three-quarters of […]
By Julia Crawford Mar 30, 2020 An alleged Liberian war criminal is expected to be tried at Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court later this year. (Keystone) With Switzerland’s first international war crimes trial in a non-military court expected to take place in coming months, Swiss NGO TRIAL International says such […]
Jessica Davis Plüss Journalist Mar 11, 2020 – swissinfo>ch Employees at the greatest risk are those who don’t have the luxury to work from home. (Keystone / Matteo Bazzi) […]
Mar 13, 2020 – swissinfo.ch Switzerland’s Supreme Court has overturned the acquittal of two Islamic Central Council of Switzerland (ICCS) leaders accused of terrorist propaganda. Islamic council president Nicolas Blancho and its spokesman Qassim Illi were accused of broadcasting propaganda videos in support of the terrorist group al-Qaeda. But they were acquitted in […]
