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Over the last century, Switzerland is known all over the world as the nation of neutrality. This country was the only country in Europe that did not fight in World War I and World War II. Their neutral stand has...

In a sign of latent fears of Islamic influence in Switzerland, voters on Sunday approved a constitutional ban on the construction of minarets on Muslim places of worship. There are only four minarets atop mosques in the small Alpine country,...

Switzerland risked a Muslim backlash on Sunday after its citizens voted overwhelmingly to ban minarets on mosques The legally-binding referendum result had not been widely expected and was a huge embarrassment for the neutral government in Switzerland . In the...

They have grown rich through trade and banking the world's money. They give shelter to wealthy migrants seeking to escape taxes at home. Their country even houses the offices of many international organisations, including large parts of the UN. But...

African countries are ready to conclude the Doha Round on the basis of current proposals, but warn against any attempt to renegotiate them at the seventh ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that opens in Geneva today. Meanwhile,...

The LHC pushed the energy of its particle beams beyond one trillion electron volts, making it the world's highest energy particle accelerator. The previous record was held by the Tevatron particle accelerator in Chicago. Officials say it is another milestone...