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Switzerland on May 24 returned to Iraq three important Mesopotamian objects seized during a criminal procedure, Bern said.

During a ceremony at the culture ministry in Bern, Swiss Interior Minister Elisabeth Baume-Schneider handed over a partial statue and two Mesopotamian reliefs to Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein.

The visit of President Rumen Radev to Switzerland continue. Today the head of state will visit the European Organization for Nuclear Research - CERN and will talk with Bulgarians working there. More than 13,000 scientists from 97 countries around the world are conducting research at CERN.

Following Germany and the Netherlands, the Turkish government is now trying to gag freedom of expression and the press in Switzerland and Sweden!

Turkey has asked authorities in Geneva to remove an exhibition picture that blames President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an for the death of a Turkish teen injured during anti-government demonstrations, a Swiss official said April 25.    

Police in Geneva raised the alert level and searched the city on Dec. 10 for several suspected jihadists believed to have links to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), security sources said.  

A Swiss public prosecutor has ordered that a precious Roman-era sarcophagus be returned to Turkey five years after it was seized by customs in Geneva, an official statement said on Sept.23.