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Switzerland votes to ban minarets A minaret installed on the roof of a Turkish cultural centre is seen with a church in the background on November 20, 2009 in Wangen bei Olten, northwestern Switzerland.

Two Siberian bear cubs given to Switzerland by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev are said to have made themselves at home in Bern, Switzerland.

BRUSSELS: The Swiss are to decide tomorrow whether to ban minarets, in what is in effect the first direct vote in a European country on Islam and the practices of Muslims.

In this Nov. 4, 2009 file photo a man passes by a poster of the right-wing Swiss People's Party which shows a woman wearing a burqa against a background of a Swiss flag upon which several minarets resemble missiles at the central station in Geneva, Switzerland.

The European Union should respect territorial integrity and sovereignty in a common principle for the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, analysts said.

In this Sept. 30, 2009 file picture the chalet named "Milky Way" is pictured which is, according to swiss newspaper "Blick", the chalet of filmmaker Roman Polanski in Gstaad, Canton of Berne, Switzerland.

This is the chilling moment a bear clamped a man in his jaws after he climbed into the enclosure at a Swiss zoo.

A man was left seriously wounded after climbing into a bear enclosure in a Swiss zoo yesterday.

A bear has attacked a man who entered its enclosure at a new park in Switzerland, and a policeman opened fire on the animal to defend the intruder.

He may have promised to change Washington, but President Barack Obama is continuing one of its most renowned patronage traditions: bestowing prized ambassadorships on big donors.

Particles released by car brake pads have been shown to harm lung cells in vitro .

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Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation "The Gates" and other large scale "wrapping" projects around the globe with her husband Christo, has died.

Date : Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:17:33 +0400 SWITZERLAND HOPES FOR SOON RATIFICATION OF THE ARMENIAN-TURKISH PROTOCOLS armradio.am 19.11.2009 15:35 There is no formal relation between resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and Turkey-Armenia rapprochement, Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe Chairman and Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline ...

A horizontal directional drilling project in Zurich, Switzerland, has enabled the city to launch an ingenious energy-saving project.

Safety officials in the northwest Swiss canton of Basel-Landschaft say an infant has become the country's first fatality from swine flu.

A Friday, Oct. 16, 2009 file photo of British singer Elton John performing on stage during a concert in Zurich, Switzerland.

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A medical worker receives a vaccine during a counter the H1N1 swine flu virus vaccination session for medical staff at the hospital in Chur, eastern Switzerland, November 11, 2009.

From : Sebouh Z Tashjian Date : Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:32:05 +0400 ARMENIA, SWITZERLAND SIGN AGREEMENT ON ENTRY VISA ABOLITION FOR DIPLOMATS PanARMENIAN.Net 11.11.2009 12:42 GMT+04:00 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian paid a working visit to Switzerland, where he met with his Swiss counterpart Micheline Calmy-Rey to ...