SWITZERLAND voted yesterday to impose a blanket ban on the building of minarets across the country, backing an initiative by far-right politicians.

Swiss voters are deciding in a referendum today whether to accept a ban on the construction of minarets, which right-wing parties regard as symbols of militant Islam.

ZURICH police were last night investigating an alleged skinhead assault on a pregnant Brazilian woman that caused her to miscarry twins and left her scarred with the initials of Switzerland’s main right-wing party.

RACIST sheep and rabid ravens picking at a map of Switzerland propelled the country and its referenda into the spotlight worldwide in recent years.

THE Swiss agreed to continue the policy of giving EU citizens free access to jobs in their country and to extend it to Bulgaria and Romania, despite recession and fear of an influx of foreigners.

Swiss voters today overwhelmingly approved a move to make permanent the country’s pioneering program to give addicts government-authorised heroin.

Official results show that Swiss voters have rejected an initiative aimed at making it harder for foreigners to gain citizenship.

Extreme-left groups staged a violent protest in the Swiss capital, damaging property and preventing a campaign rally by one of the country’s largest parties.

The nationalist Swiss People’s Party swept to victory with the highest share of the vote in parliamentary elections following an anti-foreigner campaign, according to projections by state-owned Swiss television.

The nationalist Swiss People’s Party swept to victory with the highest share of the vote in parliamentary elections today following an anti-foreigner campaign, according to projections by state-owned Swiss television. The Greens and Social Democrats also picked up seats.

The nationalist Swiss People’s Party emerged with the highest share of the vote in parliamentary elections today following an anti-foreigner campaign, according to projections by state-owned Swiss television. The Greens and Social Democrats also picked up seats.

Swiss voters today decide whether their country should join the United Nations after more than five decades on the fringes.