Swiss voters reject loosening of tough citizenship rules; OK ...
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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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Neutral Switzerland, home to humanitarian   agencies and the International Committee of the Red Cross,   voted by a big majority on Sunday to make it harder for   asylum-seekers to gain entry to the rich Alpine state.
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Swiss voters head to the polls to decide whether the country should impose more restrictive asylum laws.
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GENEVA, Oct. 21 -- A Swiss nationalist party rode an anti-immigrant wave Sunday to the best showing of any party in parliamentary elections since World War I, while the Greens made gains by appealing to environmental concerns, according to projections.
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Swiss voters on Sunday night gave the green light to stem cell research in a referendum that business and political leaders had described as crucial to maintaining the country&#39;s position as a leader in the drugs industry.
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Chances of French ratification of the European Union's proposed constitution suffered a setback when former Socialist prime minister and 2007 presidential hopeful Laurent Fabius came out against it.
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Switzerland's consensus form of government shattered on Thursday as the right-wing Swiss People's Party went into opposition, an abrupt end to the cozy style that has dominated Swiss politics for decades.
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Hungarians voted yesterday in a referendum on whether to offer citizenship to millions of ethnic Hungarians living outside the country, including more than 2m outside the European Union.
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GENEVA - 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.    In an outcome revealing the deep divide between the country's French- and more conservative German-speaking regions, two government-backed plans failed to win support in a majority of the Alpine country's 26 cantons, or states, official results showed by early afternoon...
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Swiss voters have overwhelmingly approved limited stem cell research using human embryos, but ruled out cloning. Two-thirds of Swiss voters participating in a referendum Sunday affirmed a law passed by the Swiss parliament last year.
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Germany's ruling coalition of Social Democrats and Greens on Oct. 28 voted against lifting the European Union arms embargo against China, in direct opposition to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The people of Taiwan have said no to aa new mandate to accelerate President Chen Shui-bian&#39;s pro-independence policies.
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GENEVA Swiss voters have backed a law allowing stem-cell research in the first national referendum on an issue that has divided both the European Union and the United States.
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Neutral Switzerland backed plans on   Sunday to make it harder for asylum-seekers to gain entry to   the rich Alpine state, according to early poll projections.
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Voters living abroad face an unwieldy system of absentee balloting that could prevent their votes from being counted.
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Neutral Switzerland, home to   humanitarian agencies and the International Committee of the   Red Cross, on Sunday voted heavily in favor of making it harder   for asylum-seekers to gain entry to the rich Alpine state.
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The BBC's Imogen Foulkes reports on the Swiss mood after voters turned down plans to relax strict citizenship laws.