Cluster: Swiss Identity

Calmy-Rey calls for Fifa reform

This content was published on May 31, 2011 Calmy-Rey was addressing the opening session of Fifa’s congress in Zurich on Tuesday evening, which is due to elect its president on Wednesday in the midst of a growing bribery scandal. She urged the incumbent president, Sepp Blatter and the 208 national delegations, to “take seriously the many criticisms voiced about corruption.” She assured her listeners…

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Federer sets up Djokovic match

This content was published on May 31, 2011 The score was 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) in a game lasting 154 minutes. It was the seventh time the two players had met. Monfils has beaten Federer only once, in the Masters 1000 at Paris Bercy last year. The win takes Federer through to the semifinals, where he will meet Novak Djokovic of Serbia. After the match…

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PVP: Es Geit (It’s Ok)

This content was published on May 31, 2011 Zivisolation PVP

British motorcyclists killed in pile up

This content was published on May 31, 2011 The accident happened on Tuesday afternoon when a south-bound German motorcyclist collided head on with three of a group of eight British riders coming in the opposite direction on the motorway near Splügen in canton Graubünden. Two of the Britons, aged 50 and 56 died of their injuries at the scene, and the German and…

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Patty Schnyder calls it a day

This content was published on May 31, 2011 Despite spending 94 weeks in the top ten and winning 11 singles titles, questions will always remain about what the 32-year-old could have achieved had she not fallen under the spell of two Svengali-like managers with no tennis experience. Schnyder – pronounced Schneeder – played in 59 grand slam tournaments, including 52 in a row…

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Prisons urged to adapt for older prisoners

This content was published on May 31, 2011 Researchers concluded that the institutions were not adequately prepared for this and suggested separating older prisoners from other inmates for social and health reasons. In 2008, 302 people over 50 were behind bars – 11.2 per cent of all inmates. Of these, 103 were over 60. The increase was put down mainly to inmates who…

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Jodlerklub Echo Sörenberg: Aelplerläbe

This content was published on May 31, 2011 Nesslewäng-Jutz. Natural yodel. Jodlerklub Echo Sörenberg

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“The passive smoking laws are killing me”

This content was published on May 31, 2011 After much pressure from non-smokers, who point out that more than 9,000 Swiss die prematurely from smoking every year, a nationwide smoking ban came into effect on May 1, 2010. Smoking is now forbidden in Swiss public spaces such as restaurants, bars, schools and cinemas. However, establishments can build separate ventilated smoking rooms, and locales…

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Game over

This content was published on May 31, 2011 Patty Schnyder, Switzerland’s most successful ever woman tennis player after Martina Hingis, and who started her professional career in 1994, has announced her retirement.

Fifa has “shot itself in the foot”

This content was published on May 30, 2011 The latest fiasco has seen Mohamed bin Hammam suspended and forced to step down as the only challenger to incumbent President Joseph “Sepp” Blatter. The ruling followed claim and counter-claim of corruption during the campaign. Bin Hammam’s departure paves the way for Blatter to win a fourth consecutive term as Fifa president this week. He…

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