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Monitoring to continue on deportation flights

This content was published on Mar 22, 2012 The National Commission for the Prevention of Torture (NCPT) will take over the surveillance of deportation flights in June from the Federation of Protestant Churches. A dozen special observers will be trained in the meantime and its reports will be made public. To carry out this new task, the commission’s budget will be doubled to…

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Minister attends second bus crash funeral

This content was published on Mar 22, 2012 He joined the victims’ families, friends and various dignitaries at St Peter’s Church in Leuven for a Catholic Mass for the seven children from a school in the nearby town of Heverlee who were killed on March 13. Also present were King Albert II of Belgium and Queen Paola, as well as Prince Willem-Alexander and…

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Women’s alpine ski coach resigns

This content was published on Mar 22, 2012 Swiss skiers won only one of 37 World Cup events in a season that ended in turmoil. Several racers were injured in January and specialist speed coach Stefan Abplanalp was fired in February for a “lack of professionalism”. He reportedly argued with Pini at World Cup races in Sochi, Russia. Pini said in a Swiss…

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UN “concerned” by Swiss judge’s resignation

This content was published on Mar 22, 2012 The Swiss reserve co-investigating judge on March 19 cited political interference by the country’s government after he tried to investigate more suspects and their roles in the revolution that killed as many as 2.2 million Cambodians between 1975 and 1979. His German predecessor, Siegfried Blunk, quit for similar reasons in October. “[The UN] is very…

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Architect Giacometti dies at 104

This content was published on Mar 22, 2012 He was one of the most important Swiss architects after the Second World War. After studying architecture at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich with Otto Salvisberg and Karl Moser, two key figures of modern Swiss architecture, in 1930 he was recruited at the architecture office of Karl Egender in Zurich, where he worked…

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Ministry appeals nuclear plant ruling

This content was published on Mar 21, 2012 The move follows last week’s announcement by the Bern plant’s operator BKW Energy that it intended to appeal the ruling “to obtain the legal certainty required for a decision on investments”. On Wednesday, the ministry said the judgment had called into question the delineation of roles and responsibilities between itself and the Swiss Federal Nuclear…

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Mafia tobacco-smuggling acquittals upheld

This content was published on Mar 21, 2012 But the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona on Wednesday upheld the convictions of two defendants for supporting a criminal organisation, handed down in July 2009 as part of a major international tobacco-smuggling ring case. The two men had received suspended prison sentences of 28 months and 21 months. Charges of money laundering were dropped by…

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Hildebrand to take up Oxford University post

This content was published on Mar 21, 2012 Philipp Hildebrand, who attended Oxford for his doctorate on international relations, has been appointed a senior visiting fellow at the newly founded Blavatnik School of Government. “Dr Hildebrand brings a rich experience not just of government and financial markets, but also of research and teaching,” the school’s dean Ngaire Woods said in a statement on…

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Swiss president attends funeral for crash victims

This content was published on Mar 21, 2012 On Wednesday morning she joined up to some 15,000 mourners and various dignitaries including Belgian and Dutch royalty in the town of Lommel, home to 17 of the 28 people killed on March 13. Belgium soldiers carried the white coffins of the deceased to a local sports centre for the memorial service, which was attended…

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Stadler Rail back on track after accident

This content was published on Mar 21, 2012 The FLIRT (Fast Light Innovative Regional Train), manufactured by Stadler Rail AG, is due to receive formal approval from the Norwegian authorities at the beginning of April, according to a Stadler Rail spokesman. In 2009, Norwegian State Railways bought 50 trains from Stadler Rail. The first ten were delivered in 2011. The first four series of…

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