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Swiss press voices hope and fear over Libya

Posted in Current affairs, tagged , , , on August 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Moammar Gaddafi, photo by James (Jim) Gordon of New York

 

Swiss newspapers have been cheering what appears to be the imminent fall of the Gaddafi regime in Libya.

At the same time they have voiced concern over how the nation will move forward after four decades under the control of Moammar Gaddafi and his clan. Gaddafi’s location – as well as his intentions – remain unclear.

You can read the whole press review here as part of swissinfo.ch’s Arab Spring special: http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/specials/the_arab_spring/Press_voices_hope_and_fear_over_Libya.html?cid=30966798

 

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People and places

Posted in Current affairs, tagged , , , , , , on March 14, 2011| Leave a Comment »

Podcast icon courtesy of Colleen AF Venable

The place to be: for many international firms, that’s Switzerland. A place revisited: a political exile revisits Tunisia for the first time in 19 years. Places you wish you’d never been: a woman remembers her painful past.

Click on the link below to listen a recent swissinfo.ch podcast, which I regularly contribute to.

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/multimedia/audios_podcast/People_and_places.html?autoPlay=y&view=podcastDetail&cid=29650988

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