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Afghan refugee faces deportation after 25 years in Switzerland

Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:16:02 +0200

A Swiss court has ruled that a 27-year-old Afghan man who came to Switzerland as a refugee at the age of two should be deported to Afghanistan after committing a number of crimes.

MSF decries US bombing of Afghan hospital

Tue, 06 Oct 2015 23:00:24 +0200

All international aid organizations have left the embattled Afghan city of Kunduz following a US air strike on a hospital run by medical charity MSF and amid heavy fighting, the UN said in Geneva on Tuesday.

Euro court bars Swiss from deporting refugees

Tue, 04 Nov 2014 22:45:00 +0100

The European Court of Human Rights barred Switzerland on Tuesday from sending a family of Afghan migrants back to Italy, ruling their well-being could be at risk.

Swiss ex-hostages speak of Taliban kidnap ordeal

Mon, 07 May 2012 10:58:00 +0200

Two Swiss former hostages who escaped their Taliban captors in March after eight months in a Pakistani tribal zone told a newspaper on Sunday of their ordeal, giving a rare glimpse into the torn region.