ZURICH (Reuters) – Right-to-die activists hope more countries will allow assisted suicide or euthanasia in coming years as the world population ages, but opponents are determined to stop them, a dispute that flared ahead of competing conferences in Switzerland.

“We have seen over the last 20 years a general migration of positivity towards this being a just cause,” Ted Goodwin, the American president of the World Federation of Right-to-Die Societies, told a news conference in Zurich on Tuesday.

VADUZ (Reuters) – It isn’t easy being a campaigner for more democracy in the tiny principality of Liechtenstein. Everybody knows everybody in this arch-conservative state and the subjects of the last monarchy in Europe with any real power don’t like rocking the boat.

Activists who want to end the monarchy’s right to veto popular referendums say they have received threatening letters and seen far-right vandals deface campaign posters with Nazi slogans like “Heil Fatherland” and “Democrats are the death of the people”.

VADUZ, June 11 (Reuters) – It isn’t easy being a campaigner
for more democracy in the tiny principality of Liechtenstein.
Everybody knows everybody in this arch-conservative state and
the subjects of the last monarchy in Europe with any real power
don’t like rocking the boat.

Activists who want to end the monarchy’s right to veto
popular referendums say they have received threatening letters
and seen far-right vandals deface campaign posters with Nazi
slogans like “Heil Fatherland” and “Democrats are the death of
the people”.

LAUSANNE (Reuters) – Nestle opened a new clinical development unit on Wednesday to conduct trials into nutrition for both sick and healthy people, as the food industry comes under pressure to back up health claims for its products with scientific research.

Regulators are cracking down on health claims on food, which can be a powerful marketing tool and allow firms to charge more for products with apparent nutritional enhancements.