Fire on the Champs-Elysees: tear gas used against ‘Yellow Vests’ 24 Nov 2018 On the Champs-Élysées in Paris, the order police deployed tear gas against demonstrators. It concerns participants in the protests of the ‘yellow vests’, the movement that has been campaigning for several weeks in various places in France against rising fuel prices due to higher excise duties. According to estimates from the authorities in France, about 80,000 people were present today. …
The Zurich City Police music band roared through Chicago 23 Nov 2018 The Zurich City Police music band traveled to Chicago to take part in the Thanksgiving Parade. The musicians also marched through an airport. The American television station WGN-TV in Chicago had a visit from Swiss musicians. The police music band Zürich-city marched through the editorial, offices and corridors. “This Is Why You Love Or Hate Us. But This Is Us. …
Stadium voting is finally taking place 23 Nov 2018 Together with private investors, the city of Zurich is planning to build a football stadium for 18,000 fans, 174 cooperative apartments and two towers with 570 apartments on the Hardturm site. The Zurich voting population will definitely vote on the template next Sunday. In October, a vote on voting rights was submitted by voters from circles 5 and 10 against …
Former Trump strategist Steve Bannon to visit Zurich 22 Nov 2018 Steve Bannon, the former right-hand man to US president Donald Trump, is set to visit Zurich in December at the invitation of conservative Swiss magazine Die Weltwoche, the publication’s editor revealed on Wednesday. The nationalist American media executive will speak on March 6th about his time in Trump’s White House, Weltwoche editor-in-chief and member of Switzerland’s right-wing Swiss People’s Party …
CEO Zurich: ‘Insurers fundamentally weak when it comes to customers’ 20 Nov 2018 Insurers who still want to grow can best focus on real service towards their customers, said earlier this week CEO of the Swiss insurance giant Zurich Mario Greco. In the meantime, more and more insurers actually pick up this ball, whether or not out of opportunistic motives. CEO Zurich: ‘Insurers fundamentally weak when it comes to customers’ The Financial Times …
Homeland Security reportedly paying undercover informants inside migrant caravan 20 Nov 2018 The Department of Homeland Security is paying undercover informants inside the migrant caravan headed to the southern border, two DHS officials told NBC News on Tuesday. There are about 4,000 migrants in the caravan, most of them from Central America, and to communicate, they are using WhatsApp to text. DHS personnel are monitoring those messages, the officials said, as well …
Former MP accused of sexual harassment returns to mayoral role 14 Nov 2018 Yannick Buttet will return to his role as president of the Collombey-Muraz commune in the canton of Valais on February 1st, nearly two months after he took leave following allegations of sexual harassment against him. The news was reported by Radio Chablais and confirmed to news agency ATS on Tuesday. As well as mayor of the commune, Buttet was also …
House retaken, Senate saved: the diverse results of the diverse midterms 7 Nov 2018 The Democratic Party won a majority in the House of Representatives during the mid-term elections in the US, the so-called ‘midterms’. The Republican Party of President Donald Trump managed to retain and expand the majority in the Senate. Although the voices from most states still had to enter the American west coast, it was clear around 5.00 am (Dutch time) …
St Gallen residents will vote on face coverings ban 2 Nov 2018 Voters in the canton of St Gallen will have their say on whether to impose a conditional ban on covering the face in public after a group of young socialists launched a referendum campaign to contest parliament’s proposal. Last year the St Gallen cantonal parliament approved a bill banning any person from covering their face in public if they present …
Spying game: Tibetans in Switzerland accuse Beijing of oppression 28 Oct 2018 Tibetans in Switzerland say Chinese spies have been photographing rallies organized by their community. They argue this is part of an ongoing crackdown by Beijing since Bern and China signed a free-trade agreement in 2013. Last Saturday, Tibetans in Switzerland, a group estimated to number some 7,500 people, celebrated the 59th anniversary of the Tibetan Uprising Day – a failed …
Aybek Barysov, Gulmira Wakhitova and Kanat Ibraev among founders of Qazaqstanda Jasalğan economic movement