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‘Healer’ given tougher sentence for HIV jabs

This content was published on Apr 11, 2014 The former music teacher was originally found guilty in 2013 of serious bodily harm and of spreading human diseases and given almost 13 years in jail. The man had had claimed that he was a victim of a plot. But in its ruling on Friday, the Bern High Court of Appeal said that the evidence…

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Daniel Palmieri découvre une lettre dans les archives

This content was published on Apr 11, 2014

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Daniel Palmieri and Clare O’Dea at the ICRC archives

This content was published on Apr 11, 2014

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Swiss hit Kyoto targets for 2008-2012

This content was published on Apr 10, 2014 Despite the fact that between 2008 and 2012 the Swiss population grew by 18%, the number of cars on the road grew by 34% and gross national product rose by 36%, per capita greenhouse gas emissions fell from 7.8 to 6.4 tonnes, the Federal Environment Office said on Thursday. The 13% increase in emissions generated…

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British laws aim to end Swiss ‘death tourism’

This content was published on Apr 10, 2014 “We have a clear problem,” James Harris, head of campaigns and communications at pro-euthanasia lobby Dignity in Dying, told swissinfo.ch. “Dying people are ending their lives alone and without support or are reliant on the illegal assistance of a loved one or a doctor. They are terminally ill people who want to control their deaths…

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Swiss email accounts targeted by major scam

This content was published on Apr 8, 2014 The government’s Cybercrime Coordination Unit says it was informed by German investigators that about 18 million email addresses, including 38,000 with the .ch country code domain, were hacked into to be targeted by spam mail. The victims are then asked by the perpetrators to change their access data using a specially added link – a…

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New Islamic training centre aims to build bridges

This content was published on Apr 8, 2014 “The project is now moving into its operational phase,” Antonio Loprieno, rector of the University of Basel, who has chaired the working group for the course for the past two years, told swissinfo.ch. The new inter-faculty Islamic training centre will provide courses for imams on Swiss culture and society context, courses for social services, courses…

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Swiss men get cold beer and hot springs to flow

This content was published on Apr 6, 2014 Hans Lenzlinger found himself applying for US citizenship so he could get a liquor licence for the hotel that he had purchased in New Glarus, Wisconsin. “In the first two weeks of November 1976, I got married, became a US citizen, and bought my first house,” recalls Lenzlinger, who still seems a bit amazed at…

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Cold place, warm hearts

This content was published on Apr 5, 2014 “You can walk for 20 minutes and the only thing you see is snow. After an hour, everything fades to white, and you can’t pick out the horizon anymore,” he told swissinfo.ch. His journey to Dikson, that he undertook with a writer and an interpreter, is documented in his exhibition “An der Frostgrenze” (at the…

Switzerland’s newest high-rises

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