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Ski racer Cologna named “Swiss of the Year”

This content was published on Jan 13, 2013 Former government minister and United Nations special advisor on sport for development and peace Adolf Ogi won a lifetime award. Jakob Kellenberger, who stepped down as President of the International Committee of the Red Cross last year, picked up an award in the politics category. Cologna became the second winter sports star to win the…

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Postcards from the piste

This content was published on Jan 13, 2013 The book “Images of Verbier. The old postcards”, which retraces Verbier’s development from 1900 to 1960, was compiled from 250 postcards belonging to François Luisier, who started collecting 40 years ago and now has some 3,000 postcards in his personal collection, and Jean-Marie Michellod. The book is on sale at Bagnes Museum and at bookshops…

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Postcards from the piste

This content was published on Jan 13, 2013 The book “Images of Verbier. The old postcards”, which retraces Verbier’s development from 1900 to 1960, was compiled from 250 postcards belonging to François Luisier, who started collecting 40 years ago and now has some 3,000 postcards in his personal collection, and Jean-Marie Michellod. The book is on sale at Bagnes Museum and at bookshops…

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Improving gun supervision “falls to cantons”

This content was published on Jan 12, 2013 The cantons denied that they have been dragging their feet and instead blamed the authorities for failing to make legal changes that could pave the way for exchanging information on who owns guns and which applications had been rejected. The ongoing debate on tightening Swiss gun ownership rules was given further impetus by a shooting…

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Petra – the desert marvel

This content was published on Jan 12, 2013 On August 22, 1812, Swiss traveller and orientalist Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, aka Sheikh Ibrahim Ibn Abdallah, was the first European to set eyes on the mysterious city of Petra, whose location had been lost to outsiders for nearly a 1,000 years. Burckhardt is considered the founder of modern research carried out at the site. Today,…

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A look back at Claude Nobs and his famous festival

This content was published on Jan 11, 2013

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Recovering from teenage drug abuse

This content was published on Jan 11, 2013 The wardens at the two centres of Foyers Rives du Rhône in canton Valais help young people with addiction problems to regain their physical, mental and spiritual health. swissinfo.ch accompanied Xavier for a day in the centre of Salvan. (Peter Siegenthaler, Christoph Balsiger, Daniel Wihler, swissinfo.ch)

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Protection of children stepped up

This content was published on Jan 11, 2013 One noteworthy case involved a five-year-old boy picked up by police in a public swimming pool. Guardianship authorities were notified that the boy apparently didn’t want to go back to his mother and stepfather but wanted to live with his father. Soon afterwards the boy’s legal representative filed an endangered child report, saying it was…

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Founder of Montreux Jazz Festival dies

This content was published on Jan 11, 2013 Nobs died on Thursday after sustaining injuries from a fall while cross-country skiing alone in the village of Caux close to his home overlooking Montreux and Lake Geneva on Christmas Eve. He was flown to hospital and fell into a coma from which he never recovered. On its website, the festival said Nobs’ death came by…

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