https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Residents of a Swiss village have been told they may have to leave their homes for over a decade while a nearby World War II munitions store is cleared out. https://www.thelocal.ch/20200226/swiss-village-to-be-evacuated-for-ten-years-over-explosion-fears Wed, 26 Feb 2020 12:27:24 +0100 swiss-village-to-be-evacuated-for-ten-years-over-explosion-fears Residents in Zurich’s Küsnacht district were evacuated on Tuesday after an unexploded bomb turned up during gardening works near an old people’s home. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180905/zurich-residents-evacuated-after-gardeners-find-ww2-bomb Wed, 05 Sep 2018 12:53:08 +0200 zurich-residents-evacuated-after-gardeners-find-ww2-bomb The Swiss army was called to an apartment block in Bern on Wednesday after two World War Two grenades were found in the loft. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170209/world-war-two-explosives-found-in-bern-apartment-block-attic Thu, 09 Feb 2017 09:53:43 +0100 world-war-two-explosives-found-in-bern-apartment-block-attic The Geneva-based Red Cross says it is handing over to German authorities a huge archive of people who were persecuted by the Nazis and who went missing amid the chaos of the Second World War. https://www.thelocal.ch/20121129/red-cross-transfers-war-archive-to-germans Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:53:00 +0100 red-cross-transfers-war-archive-to-germans