Cluster: Swiss Identity

Authenticity of stolen Picassos confirmed

This content was published on Oct 28, 2011 The Schwyz cantonal prosecutor’s office said on Friday tests had confirmed the authenticity of the two works, “Tete de cheval” painted in 1962 and “Verre et Pichet” from 1944. Both are in good condition and in the process of being returned to Switzerland. Investigations into who stole the paintings are continuing, the prosecutor’s office said.…

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Developers cleared in firefighter deaths

This content was published on Oct 27, 2011 In an appeal hearing on Thursday the court in Solothurn overturned the brothers’ 20-month sentences issued in December 2010. They were among five people who had faced homicide charges over the 2004 incident in which seven firemen died when a parking garage in Gretzenbach, northwestern Switzerland, collapsed on top of them as they fought to…

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Support group try to break alcoholic taboo

This content was published on Oct 27, 2011 Addiction Info Suisse is launching a new round-the-clock manned website to help alcoholics and their friends and family with questions and problems. The group hopes the website will help overcome the taboo of talking about alcoholism, and says the website allows people to seek help anonymously and to receive quick responses to basic questions. The group…

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Swiss Red Cross join Turkish relief effort

This content was published on Oct 26, 2011 The Swiss aid organisation is providing four large multipurpose tents and 300 smaller tents, 3,000 blankets as well as cooking utensils. Staff are also travelling to Turkey with the goods. The Swiss Red Cross is spending SFr400,000 ($452,000) on the relief effort, most of which will come from Swiss government humanitarian aid. It has also…

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Nahmad show courts controversy in Zurich

This content was published on Oct 26, 2011 Kunsthaus director Christoph Becker is convinced that the quality of the works on show in “Miró, Monet, Matisse – The Nahmad Collection” will dispel any thoughts that a world-class art institution is catering to the commercial interests of a family who happen to deal art on a global scale. The Nahmads have been dealing in…

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World makes room for seven billionth person

This content was published on Oct 26, 2011 swissinfo.ch spoke to demographics expert Philippe Wanner about the rise and rise of the global population and asked whether we should fear the burden of the additional two to three billion people expected to be added to the planet in the next 50 years. During the 20th century, the world population exploded, passing from 1.6…

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Schweizerhalle: one year after

This content was published on Oct 26, 2011 Schweizerhalle: one year after In this interview extract from Swiss Radio International in 1987, journalist Regula Renschler tells Robert Brookes how people in Basel felt one year after the accident.

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Odeon ode

This content was published on Oct 26, 2011 Many cinemas in Switzerland face extinction. The advance of digital technology is stretching the financial limits of many, especially those outside cities. Over the past decade the Geneva photographer and filmmaker Simon Edelstein visited some 300 cinemas and has portrayed the life and death of an era in a bilingual photo book, “Lux, Rex &…

Monster sculptor dies

This content was published on Oct 25, 2011 A representative of the Bruno Weber Foundation said he died at home on Monday, surrounded by his family. Weber’s colourful dragons, snakes, birdmen and unicorns were designed to be a “visionary counterworld” to the “concrete deserts” of highways and factories. They were inspired by eastern mythology and European fables as well as by his own…

Shirley Grimes: The Long Road Home

This content was published on Oct 24, 2011 Dandelion Bouquet Shirley Grimes

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