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Friday prayers, an odd apprenticeship and weather frogs

Here are some of the stories we will be bringing you the week starting January 23, 2017. 


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Monday

Our journalists recount their visit to a Swiss mosque where they took part in Friday prayers. They went there to check out media reports about the alleged radicalisation of the areas around Islamic centres of worship. 



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Tuesday

Was spending more than a million Swiss francs in taxpayers’ money to fund a handwashing project in India money down the drain? We’ll publish a critical assessment. 





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Thursday

Too young to drive a car and barely old enough to order a beer, a Swiss teenager finds himself holding the reins in an unusual apprenticeship. 






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Friday

A prolonged drought followed by a freezing and snowy January. Weather remains unpredictable, yet our thirst for knowledge about it remains unquenched. A new exhibition in Zurich looks at the latest technology used by Swiss meteorologists as well as the folklore of the country’s “weather frogs”.




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