Swiss Reject Loosening Citizenship Rules
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Voters in Switzerland  --  where more than one in five is a foreigner  --  rejected proposals to liberalize tough rules on citizenship in a national referendum Sunday.
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Hungary&#39;s double referendum on whether to grant dual citizenship to ethnic Hungarians abroad and whether to stop the privatisation of health care facilities has failed due a low voter turnout, the Central Election Office announced Monday.
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Swiss voters today overwhelmingly approved a new law permitting research on stem cells, rejecting a repeal initiative by an alliance of conservative Christian, left-wing and green groups.
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Swiss voters rejected controversial reforms making it easier for second and third generation immigrants in Switzerland to gain citizenship, official results in a referendum showed.
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Dashing the chance for almost 200,000 youngsters to get citizenship easily, voters in this Alpine country rejected two government proposals to loosen tough naturalization rules in a referendum Sunday.
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GENEVA  - Dashing the chance for almost 200,000 youngsters to get citizenship easily, voters in this Alpine country rejected two government proposals to loosen tough naturalization rules in a referendum Sunday.
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Voters in Switzerland reject plans to introduce a single means-tested health insurance scheme.
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China backs down from a censorship plan that required people to register on blog sites with their real names.
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PARIS -- A prominent Swiss Muslim intellectual said yesterday that the United States had dropped charges against him of supporting terrorism, but had refused to scrap an entry ban.
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Switzerland is famous for its neutrality. It sat out both world wars. It's a refuge for international finance.
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A bid to grant Dutch citizenship to Holocaust victim Anne Frank some 60 years after her death has been rejected by the country&#39;s justice ministry.
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Italian Americans object to plans to give actor Robert De Niro honorary Italian citizenship.
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Google doesn't like proposed German legislation to ban anonymous e-mail accounts.
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ATHENS, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- FINA, the swimming&#39;s world governing body, has rejected protest from national federations of Britain and Austria over American Aaron Peirsol&#39;s reinstatement after he was disqualified in the 200m backstroke final at the ...
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Iceland has rejected a U.S. request to drop the offer of a residency permit for former American chess champion Bobby Fischer, officials said Tuesday.
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A double rejection for Buttiglione in Brussels. The justice and security commission of the European Parliament has rejected by just one vote, the first resolution that accepted the candidature of Rocco Buttiglione
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A French amnesty law forbids media from reporting the details of the legal procedure that Barrot faced. Barrotâs resignation was also demanded by Britainâs anti-EU UK Independence Party (UKIP), which provoked