Cluster: Swiss Identity

Sion face major penalty

This content was published on Dec 30, 2011 The association announced the move on Friday – a day after the club announced that it had filed a complaint against Fifa with the Zurich public prosecutor. The association said that its move was a response to Fifa’s threat to suspend Switzerland from world football. Fifa had demanded that Sion be penalised by three points…

Swiss airline more popular than ever

This content was published on Dec 30, 2011 In a statement on Friday, the airline – a subsidiary of Germany’s Lufthansa – said its previous high was 14.17 million, which it set in 2010. Swiss was created after the collapse of the national carrier Swissair ten years ago under a mountain of debts. After getting off to a rocky start, the fledgling airline…

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Philippe Fankhauser: His kind of blues

This content was published on Dec 30, 2011 Philipp Fankhauser is without doubt Switzerland’s finest contemporary blues singer. This record “His kind of blues” contains selected titles from his four albums recorded during his Swiss years. It also includes numbers produced by Dennis Walker in the USA with the “L.A. Blues Band”, featuring the “Memphis Horns”. In 1996, Swiss Radio International produced this…

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Wealthy Swiss try to beat the taxman

This content was published on Dec 30, 2011 Notaries reported an upsurge in business in the last few months of the year, as wealthy families rushed to beat a possible tax on legacies and gifts which might affect all assets passed on after January 1, 2012. Zurich’s chief notary public, Rene Biber, told Swiss public television that his office had handled about 5,300…

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Swiss acknowledge wartime “heroes”

This content was published on Dec 29, 2011 A parliamentary commission has been dissolved after completing the rehabilitation of all 137 known cases of people convicted by a Swiss military tribunal of breaking the law during the war by helping mainly Jews cross into the country illegally. Nearly 70 years on, the rulings have been annulled and the names of these “heroes”, as…

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Swiss sued in US over road death

This content was published on Dec 29, 2011 The incident occurred in Washington in October. According to media reports, the driver of the vehicle was a former domestic servant of Hannibal Gaddafi – son of former Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi – who was involved in an incident in Geneva in 2008 that sparked a major diplomatic row between Switzerland and Libya. Both the…

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Sion accuse Fifa of violating Swiss law

This content was published on Dec 29, 2011 The move, announced on the club’s website on Thursday, is the latest in a bitter struggle over Sion’s fielding of players whom Fifa has ruled to be ineligible. Fifa’s headquarters are in Zurich. The complaint is a response to Fifa’s announcement on December 17 that it would suspend the Swiss Football Association on January 14…

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Double victory for Swiss in World Cup downhill

This content was published on Dec 29, 2011 Defago’s winning time was two minutes 1.81 seconds, 0.29 seconds ahead of Küng. Austria’s Klaus Kröll took third place followed by Erik Guay of Canada and Bode Miller of the United States. Swiss veteran Didier Cuche finished in eighth position, 1.16 seconds behind Defago. Defago’s win was the first for Switzerland in the World Cup…

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Births of triplets up 40 per cent in 20 years

This content was published on Dec 29, 2011 The research carried out by Zurich University Hospital examined the numbers of triplets, quadruplets and quintuplets born between 2005 and 2008 and compared the data with that of 1985 to 1988 and of 1995 and 1998. Between 2005 and 2008, 105 sets of triplets, two sets of quadruplets and one set of quintuplets were born.…

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Protests in Kosovo over Swiss extradition

This content was published on Dec 28, 2011 The man, a former member of the Kosovo Liberation Army, is accused of committing war crimes in 1999 against Serbian civilians and Albanians. He says he was in Macedonia at the time the crimes were committed. He was arrested in Vevey in Switzerland in April and Serbia filed a request for his extradition in March.…

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