Swiss vote to raise barriers for asylum seekers
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Neutral Switzerland, home to   humanitarian agencies and the International Committee of the   Red Cross, on Sunday voted heavily in favor of making it harder   for asylum-seekers to gain entry to the rich Alpine state.
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A xenophobic appeal to a white 'flock' is doing wonders for a right-wing Swiss party's election campaign
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A measure that forbids cloning human embryos but allows scientists to extract stem cells from unwanted embryos for medical research is approved by Swiss voters. The restrictive legislation is similar to that of the Netherlands and Spain.
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Monday's papers tackle a controversial Swiss asylum bill, street protests in Hungary and a new statement from Basque separatist group Eta.
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An immigration bill, expected to pass, requires knowledge of French and proof of support.
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Switzerland's army is hardly known for its aggressive stance but this did not stop 170 armed soldiers crossing the border into Liechtenstein at the dead of night, red-faced Swiss military officials said Friday.
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On Sunday voters rejected government-backed plans to simplify naturalisation procedures for second-generation foreigners. They also turned down a proposal to grant children born in Switzerland to foreign parents the automatic right to a Swiss passport.
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A delegation of Swiss parliamentarians, academics and writers is embarking on a week-long visit to the occupied territories on Saturday.
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LISBON, Aug 9 (IPS) - A proposed European Union (EU) directive imposing   tighter restrictions on granting political asylum is causing  major concern  to refugee councils across the 15 nations that  comprised the EU until the  bloc's May 1 expansion to 25  countries.
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The government has won strong backing for a law allowing stem-cell research on surplus human embryos, with two-thirds of Swiss voting in favour.
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GENEVA - Voters in Switzerland - where one in five residents is foreign-born - rejected liberalizing tough rules on granting citizenship Sunday.    Reflecting the divide between French-speaking areas and the more conservative German region, two government-backed citizenship proposals failed to win support in a majority of the 26 cantons, official results showed by early afternoon...
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Making it easier to deport immigrants seeking political asylum will get a vote in the House this week, a few days after a federal commission said that many of them already are being treated like criminals.
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Some 25,000 asylum-seekers whose applications for refuge were rejected will be allowed to stay, the newly installed Dutch government said Saturday, reversing the previous administration's hardline immigration policy.
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Swiss voters were set to reject plans to loosen the country's tough rules on naturalizing foreigners, according to initial results in a national referendum Sunday.
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A Muslim scholar said Wednesday he is seeking Swiss government support after being denied a U.S. visa to teach at the Univesity of Notre Dame.
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A Swiss group may have helped more people bypass the UK ban on euthanasia than previously thought.
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Swiss voters go to the polls Sunday to vote in a referendum on making it easier for children and grandchildren of foreigners living in the country to gain citizenship.